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Mariscus kraussii

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Identification
Mariscus kraussii Hochst. [family CYPERACEAE ]
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Flora

Entry for MARISCUS dregeanus Kunth [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
MARISCUS dregeanus Kunth [family CYPERACEAE], Enum. ii. 120;—C. B. Clarke in Hook f. Fl. Brit. Ind. vi. 620.
MARISCUS Kraussii Hochst. [family CYPERACEAE], in Flora, 1845, 756.
MARISCUS kyllingiæformis Boeck. [family CYPERACEAE], in Flora, 1859, 443, 496.
Cyperus dubius Rottl. [family CYPERACEAE], in Neue Schr. Gesell. Nat. Freunde Berlin, iv. 1803, 193; Boeck. in Linnæa, xxxvi. 336 partly; C. B. Clarke in Journ. Linn. Soc xxi. 197, not of Rottb.
Cyperus kyllingæoides Vahl. [family CYPERACEAE], Enum. ii. 312; Kunth, Enum. ii. 94.
Schœnus coloratus Linn. var. β [family ], Sp. Plant. ed. ii. 64.
Schœnus niveus Linn. [family ], Syst. Veget. ed. xiii. 81.
Information
glabrous; stolons 0; stem 6–14 in. long, slender, trigonous at the top, smooth, bearing 1 dense compound head of spikelets; leaves often as long as the stem, 1/10– 1/6 in. broad, weak, grass-like; sheaths of basal leaves inflated, scarious or coloured, forming an oblong thickening to the stem-base; inflorescence ovoid, 1/2– 3/4 in. long, of 1 or 2–5 confluent spikes; bracts 3–4, similar to the leaves, lowest 3–7 in. long; spike of very numerous, densely crowded spikelets, straw-coloured or fuscous; spikelets 1/5 in. by 1/12 in., not compressed, somewhat angular, 2–6-(usually 3–4) nutted; rhachilla with broad scarious persistent wings, disarticulating below the lowest fertile flower, usually falling with the glumes and nuts; glumes ovate, hardly acute, not keeled, strongly 13–15-ribbed over nearly their whole breadth; stamens 3–2; anthers oblong, not crested; nut about 1/2 the length of the glume, trigonous, oblong-obovoid, dusky black; style shorter than the nut; branches 3, linear, longish. null
Range
Also in Tropical Africa, the Mascarene Islands, and Tropical India to Borneo.
Distribution
EASTERN REGION Transkei; Bashee River, 1000 ft., Drège! Tembuland; between the Bashee River and Morley, 1000–2000 ft., Drège! Pondoland, Bachmann, 99! 100! 101! Natal; Umlaas River, Krauss, 6! Durban Flat, Buchanan, 31! Clairmont, Kuntze, 232! 259! and without precise locality, Buchanan, 82! Gerrard, 460! Grant! Delagoa Bay, Junod, 151! 233 partly! VAR. β, Natal; Durban Flat, Buchanan!KALAHARI REGION Transvaal; Houtbosch, Rehmann, 5637!
Notes
The var. β resembles much M. macrocarpus below; but has the spikelets less green and much more densely crowded; it looks very different from the ordinary form of M. dregeanus, but a similar state occurs in Madras.

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