Entry for Mariscus Gregorii C. B. Clarke [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
Mariscus GregoriiC. B. Clarke [family CYPERACEAE], in Journ. Bot. 1896, 225.
Information
Glabrous. Stem 1 ft. long, stout, nearly round, at the top obscurely trigonous, at the base nodose thickened. Leaves several, 4 by 1/4 in., tough, scarcely scabrous on the margins. Umbel simple, condensed, 1 1/2 in. in diam.; rays 7–8, 0– 1/2 in. long; bracts 5, similar to the leaves, the lowest 4 in. long. Spikes 3/5 in. long and broad, of 16 spikelets, straw-coloured. Spikelets nearly 1/2 by 1/8 in., compressed, maturing 6 nuts. Glumes ovate-oblong, obtuse, 9-ribbed, ultimately adpressed-erect; upper margins quite glabrous. Nut 3/5 the length of the glume, broad-oblong, black. Style 1/2 the length of the nut; branches 3, long.
Distribution
British East Africa Nile Land River Tana, Gregory, 93!
Notes
This species is close to M. hemisphæricus, differing by the shorter leaves.
