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Lipocarpha tenera

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Name

Identification
Lipocarpha tenera Boeck. [family CYPERACEAE ] Verified by Clarke, C.B., Lipocarpha nana (A.Rich.) Cherm. [family CYPERACEAE ] (stored under name); Lipocarpha pulcherrima Ridl. [family CYPERACEAE ] Verified by Clarke, C.B., Lipocarpha monocephala Turrill [family CYPERACEAE ] Lipocarpha atropurpurea Boeck. [family CYPERACEAE ] Verified by Clarke, C.B.,
Related name
  • Lipocarpha nana
  • Lipocarpha monocephala
  • Lipocarpha pulcherrima
  • Lipocarpha tenera
  • Lipocarpha atropurpurea

Flora

Entry for LIPOCARPHA pulcherrima Ridley [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
LIPOCARPHA pulcherrima Ridley [family CYPERACEAE], in Trans. Linn. Soc. ser. 2, ii. 162
LIPOCARPHA tenera Boeck. [family CYPERACEAE], Cyp. Novæ, i. 21.
LIPOCARPHA atropurpurea Boeck. [family CYPERACEAE], Cyp. Novæ, i. 21.
Information
stems 3–8 in. long, slender; leaves slender; heads of 1–5 spikelets; spikelets 1/6 by 1/12 in., squarrose; glumes obovate, dark chestnut, with a long, linear, yellow-green, recurved mucro; bracteoles hardly longer than the nut; style hardly any, branches 3 minute, linear; otherwise resembling very small examples of the preceding species. null
Range
Scattered throughout South Tropical Africa.
Distribution
EASTERN REGION Natal, Rehmann, 7364!KALAHARI REGION Transvaal; Pretoria, at Koedus Poort, Rehmann, 4639! and without precise locality, McLea in Herb. Bolus, 6025!

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