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Mariscus plateilema

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Identification
Isotype of Mariscus plateilema Steud. [family CYPERACEAE ] Verified by Not on sheet, Cyperus plateilema (Steud.) Kuk. [family CYPERACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on sheet,
Related name
  • Mariscus bulbocaulis
  • Mariscus plateilema
  • Mariscus hochstetteri
  • Mariscus atrosanguineus
  • Cyperus plateilema

Flora

Entry for Mariscus Schimperi Hochst. [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 Schimperi Hochst. [family CYPERACEAE], in Flora, 1841, i. Intell. 20. —Steud. in Flora, 1842, 596, and Syn. Pl. Glum. ii. 62; A. Rich. Tent. Fl. Abyss. ii. 491; C. B. Clarke in Durand & Schinz, Conspect. Fl. Afr. v. 592.
Mariscus plateilema Steud. [family CYPERACEAE], in Flora, 1842, 596.
Cyperus variegatus Boeck. [family CYPERACEAE], in Linnæa, xxxvi. 337, var. & excl. syn. C. dubius, Boeck. in Linnæa, xxxvi. 336 partly; not of Vahl.
Cyperus viridis Schweinf. [family CYPERACEAE], Beitr. Fl. Aethiop. 217 (cfr. Mariscus viridis, Hochst. ex Boeck. in Linnæa, xxxvi. 336).
Information
Glabrous. Stolons 0. Stems approximate, 3–14 in. long, slender, at the top trigonous and smooth, at the base oblong-thickened by brown scarious entire or ultimately fimbriate leaf-sheaths. Leaves often as long as the stem, 1/10– 1/8 in. broad, weak. Head of usually 3–4 distinct spikes, the central subcylindric, the lateral often shorter; bracts 3–5, similar to the leaves, lowest up to 6 in. long. Spikelets numerous, green more or less variegated with red, 1/4 in. long, oblong, compressed, producing 2–4 nuts, deciduous in one piece above the two lowest barren glumes. Glumes ovate, subacute, 12–20-ribbed. Nut trigonous, oblong or oblong-ellipsoid, 2/3– 1/2 the length of the glumes, dark brown, dotted. Style rather shorter than the nut; branches 3, longish.
Distribution
Eritrea Nile Land Habab, 8000 ft., Hildebrandt, 362!Abyssinia Nile Land Tigre; on the top of Mount Sholoda, Schimper, 173! Samen; Mountains of Shoata, Schimper, 578! 1363! Agow; mountains near Mawerr, Schimper, 184; 2292! and without precise locality, Schimper, 179! 363!Somaliland Nile Land Mrs. Lort-Phillips! Miss Edith Cole!

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