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Mariscus maritimus

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Name

Identification
Mariscus maritimus C.B.Clarke [family CYPERACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Clarke,C.B.,
Related name
  • Cyperus dubius
  • Mariscus maritimus

Flora

Entry for Mariscus maritimus 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 maritimus C. B. Clarke [family CYPERACEAE], in Journ. Bot. 1896, 226.
Information
Glabrous. Stem 16 in. long, slender, at the top trigonous and smooth, at the base scarcely thickened but with long loose bright-brown striate leaf-sheaths, torn into fibres. Leaves 12 by 1/10 in., weak. Inflorescence of 5–6 spikes almost completely fused into 1 ovoid head, 2/3 in. in diam., chestnut-red; bracts 4, similar to the leaves, lowest 3 1/2 in. long. Spikelets 1/5 by 1/12 in., 4-flowered, producing 3 nuts, caducous in one piece above the two lowest empty glumes. Glumes ovate, many-ribbed, neither acute nor keeled. Nut 2/5 the length of the glume, oblong, trigonous, red-brown. Style linear, shorter than the nut; branches 3, linear.
Distribution
British East Africa Nile Land on the sands of the seashore at Mambrui (Mombrui), Gregory!

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