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Mariscus tabularis

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Identification
Mariscus tabularis Not on sheet. [family CYPERACEAE ] Verified by Vorster, P., Cyperus tabularis Not on sheet. [family CYPERACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on sheet.,
Related name
  • Cyperus tabularis
  • Cyperus crinitus
  • Cyperus semitrifidus
  • Mariscus tabularis
  • Cyperus sanguineus
  • Cyperus solidus
  • Mariscus humilis

Flora

Entry for MARISCUS tabularis C. B. Clarke [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 tabularis C. B. Clarke [family CYPERACEAE], in Durand and Schinz, Conspect. Fl. Afr. v. 594
Cyperus tabularis Schrad. [family CYPERACEAE], Anal. Fl. Cap. 10; Nees in Linnæa, x. 137, excluding var. β; Kunth, Enum. ii. 107; Boeck. in Linnæa, xxxvi. 324.
Cyperus solidus Drège [family CYPERACEAE], Pflanzengeogr. Documente 177 (at least c).
Cyperus Ecklonii Boeck. [family CYPERACEAE], in Linnæa, xxxvi. 325.
Information
glabrous, robust, stoloniferous; stems 8–24 in. long; leaves 2/3 the length of the stems, 1/4 in. broad, flat when dry, tough, without transverse reticulations, closely striate lengthwise; umbel simple or nearly so, 2–5 in. in diam.; bracts 4–5, up to 10 in. long, similar to the leaves; spikes 1/2 in. long, globose or ovoid, dense, dark-red; spikelets 1/3 by 1/12 in., somewhat compressed, maturing 4–7 nuts; rhachilla disarticulating below the lowest fertile glume; glumes ovate, very obtuse, 13–15-striate; nut 1/2 the length of the glume, oblong-obovoid, trigonous; style shorter than the nut, branches 3 linear, longish. null
Distribution
CENTRAL REGION Somerset Div.; mountains above the Spring of Commadagga, Burchell, 3352!COAST REGION Cape Div.; Table Mountain, Hesse. Uitenhage Div.; Zwartkops River, Ecklon, 18! Zeyher! Bathurst Div.; Port Alfred, Hutton! Albany Div.; near the Bushmans River, below 1000 ft., Drège! King Williamstown Div.; near Toise River Station, 3600 ft., Kuntze, 280! Cathcart Div.; near Cathcart, 4500 ft., Kuntze, 263! Var. γ, Albany Div.; on the Flats near Grahamstown, 2000 ft., Drège, 3952!SOUTH AFRICA without locality, Drège, 4401! 4402! MacOwan, 669 partly! Ecklon and Zeyher, 23! 76! Var. β, Zeyher!

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