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Isolepis saviana

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Identification
scirpus cernus Vahl. [family CYPERACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Maire, R., isolepis saviana Schultes [family CYPERACEAE ] Verified by Font Quer, P., isolepis setacea (L.) R.Br. [family CYPERACEAE ] Verified by Raynal, J.,
Related name
  • Scirpus setaceus
  • scirpus cernus
  • isolepis setacea
  • Isolepis setacea
  • Scirpus cernuus
  • isolepis saviana
  • Isolepis saviana

Flora

Entry for SCIRPUS cernuus Vahl [family CYPERACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of Tropical Africa, Vol 8, page 264, (1902) Author: (By C. B. Clarke.)
Names
SCIRPUS cernuus Vahl [family CYPERACEAE], Enum. ii. 245. —C. B. Clarke in Durand & Schinz, Conspect. Fl. Afr. v. 619, and in Dyer, Fl. Cap. vii. 219.
SCIRPUS Savii Sebast. & Mauri [family CYPERACEAE], Prod. Fl. Rom. 22; Sowerby, Engl. Bot. Suppl. t. 2782; Coss. & Durieu, Expl. Sc. Algér. Glum. 234.
SCIRPUS setaceus Linn. [family CYPERACEAE], Mant. 321; Boeck. in Linnæa, xxxvi. 501 partly; Schweinf. in Bull. Herb. Boiss. ii. Append. ii. 49? not of Linn. Sp. Pl.
Isolepis riparia R. Br. [family CYPERACEAE], Prod. 222.
Isolepis numidiana Roem. & Schultes [family CYPERACEAE], Syst. Veg. ii. 110.
Isolepis saviana Schultes [family CYPERACEAE], in Roem. & Schultes, Syst. Veg. ii. Mant. 63; Kunth, Enum. ii. 193.
Information
Glabrous, annual. Stems tufted, 1–5 in. long, setaceous, with 1 head of 3–1 spikelets. Leaves usually much shorter than the stem, setaceous. Spikelets 1/8– 1/4 in. long, ovoid, few- or many-flowered. Glumes ovate, hardly acute. Hypogynous bristles 0. Style linear; branches 3, linear. Nut 1/2 as long as the glume, obovoid, trigonous, brown or black, smooth or appearing dotted, neither longitudinally ribbed nor transversely barred.
Range
Common in most warm and temperate regions.This species is plentiful in Algeria and in extratropical South Africa; it is also communicated from St. Helena and the Mascarene Isles, but has not been received from Tropical Africa.
Distribution
Cape Verde Upper Guinea Wichura, 425!
Notes
As to the doubtful citation of Schweinfurth, the only example of his S. setaceus seen looks like S. cernuus, but it has no ripe nuts.

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