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Mariscus macer

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Name

Identification
Mariscus macer Kunth [family CYPERACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Vorster, P.,
Related name
  • Cyperus elephantinus
  • Mariscus radiatus
  • Cyperus macrocarpus
  • Mariscus macrocarpus
  • Mariscus macer
  • Mariscus kraussii
  • Cyperus kraussii

Flora

Entry for MARISCUS macer 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 macer Kunth [family CYPERACEAE], Enum. ii. 121
Cyperus cylindrostachys Boeck. [family CYPERACEAE], in Linnæa, xxxvi. 383 partly.
Information
resembling M. sieberianus, but spikelets oblong-obovoid, conspicuously trigonous, always 1-flowered, the 4th glume (i.e. that above the 3rd nut-bearing glume) rudimentary, not easily to be distinguished from the glume-like rhachilla. null
Range
Also in the mountains of Tropical Africa at 3000–5000 ft.
Distribution
EASTERN REGION Natal, Buchanan, 108 partly!KALAHARI REGION Orange Free State; Buchanan, 153 partly!
Notes
Spikes long, cylindric, nearly sessile in all the examples; but this species does not really differ from M. radiatus except by the suppression of the upper flower. There is a “representative” species of the M. sieberianus group abundant in Tropical America, viz. M. flavus, Vahl, admitted distinct by all authors, including Bentham. I can find no character except the lowest glume I., which is longer (like a setaceous bract) in the American group. M. macer appears to me extraordinarily like M. flavus, Vahl.

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