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Isolepis senegalensis

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Identification
Isotype of Isolepis senegalensis Hochst. ex Steud. [family CYPERACEAE ] Verified by Not on sheet, Schoenoplectus senegalensis (Hochst. ex Steud.) J.Raynal [family CYPERACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on sheet,
Related name
  • Scirpus praelongatus
  • Isolepis senegalensis
  • Schoenoplectus senegalensis
  • Scirpus articulatus
  • Isolepis prolongata

Flora

Entry for SCIRPUS articulatus Linn. [family CYPERACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Capensis
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Capensis, Vol 7, page 149, (1900) Author: (By C. B. CLARKE.)
Names
SCIRPUS articulatus Linn. [family CYPERACEAE], Sp. Plant. ed. 2, 70;—Boeck. in Linnæa, xxxvi. 702; C. B. Clarke in Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. vi. 656.
Isolepis articulata Nees [family CYPERACEAE], in Wight, Contrib. 108; Kunth, Enum. ii. 198.
Isolepis senegalensis Steud. [family CYPERACEAE], Syn. Pl. Glum. ii. 96.
Information
glabrous, annual; stems tufted, 4–12 in. long, terete, usually pseudoseptate when dry, with one lateral dense head of 4–20 pale-brown spikelets; leaves hardly any; bracts 2, lower 6–12 in. long, as though a continuation of the stem; spikelets 1/3 by 1/6 in., very obtuse (in the Cape form); glumes nearly hemispheric, neither pointed nor keeled; hypogynous bristles 0; stamens 3; anthers oblong-linear, not crested; nut less than 1/2 the length of the glume, ovoid, subequally triquetrous, nearly black, strongly transversely wrinkled; style nearly as long as the nut, branches 3. null
Range
Also in Tropical Africa, the Mascarene Islands, India, Malaya, and North Australia.
Distribution
KALAHARI REGION Transvaal; Boshveld, towards M'Cabes Vley, Rehmann, 5150!
Notes
The Cape specimen is the form senegalensis, Steud., in which the glumes and spikelets are very obtuse; in the abundant Indian “type” form the glumes are somewhat acute.

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