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Mariscus polyphyllus

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Identification
Isotype of Mariscus polyphyllus Steud. [family CYPERACEAE ] Verified by Not on sheet, Cyperus cyperoides (L.) Kuntze [family CYPERACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on sheet,
Related name
  • Mariscus polyphyllus
  • Cyperus sumatrensis
  • Cyperus steudelianus
  • Mariscus sieberianus
  • Cyperus cyperoides
  • Mariscus macrocarpus

Flora

Entry for Mariscus macrocarpus Kunth [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 macrocarpus Kunth [family CYPERACEAE], Enum. ii. 120. —C. B. Clarke in Dyer, Fl. Cap. vii. 190; Rendle in Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw. ii. 120.
Mariscus polyphyllus Steud. [family CYPERACEAE], in Flora, 1842, 596, and Syn. Pl. Glum. ii. 65; A. Rich. Tent. Fl. Abyss. ii. 489.
Mariscus sieberianus C. B. Clarke var. polyphyllus [family CYPERACEAE], in Durand & Schinz, Conspect. Fl. Afr. v. 593, and in Trans. Linn. Soc. ser. 2, Bot. iv. 53.
Mariscus umbellatus Oliver [family CYPERACEAE], in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxix. 166 partly.
Cyperus macrocarpus Boeck. [family CYPERACEAE], in Linnæa, xxxvi. 380; K. Schum. in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 122.
Cyperus steudelianus Boeck. [family CYPERACEAE], in Linnæa, xxxvi. 382.
Cyperus sieberianus C. B. Clarke ex K. Schum. var. polyphylla [family CYPERACEAE], in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 122 partly.
Cyperus paniceus Boeck. [family CYPERACEAE], in Flora, 1879, 557; Oliver in Trans. Linn. Soc. ser. 2, Bot. ii. 353 partly; Schweinf. in Bull. Herb. Boiss. ii. Append. ii. 49 (at least as to his n. 1989), 104?; K. Schum. in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 122.
Cyperus flavus Ridley [family CYPERACEAE], in Trans. Linn. Soc. ser. 2, Bot. ii. 144.
Information
Spikes ovoid or short-cylindric, usually 1/2 in. wide, all subsessile or very shortly peduncled. Spikelets maturing 2–3 nuts; lowest empty glume mucronate or scarcely aristate. Nut 3/4 the length of the glume, broadly oblong; otherwise as M. sieberianus (large forms).
Distribution
Abyssinia Nile Land Samen; Enderder, Schimper, 1124! Ambara, Steudner, 908!Angola Lower Guinea Pungo Andongo, Welwitsch, 7009 partly!Zanzibar Mozamb. Dist. Taylor!British East Africa Nile Land Jur; Jur Ghattas, Schweinfurth, 1989!Uganda Nile Land Speke & Grant! Stuhlmann, 1279!German East Africa Mozamb. Dist. Kilimanjaro, 5000 ft., Johnston! Karagwe; Kafuro, Stuhlmann, 1785! 1884! Bukoba, Stuhlmann, 3893! on hill tops, Speke & Grant, 412! Mwanza, on Lake Victoria, Stuhlmann, 4548!
Distribution (external)
Natal
Notes
This might be united with M. flavus, Vahl; but the Indian M. paniceus differs much by its slender stolons and rhizome.

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