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Platylepis capensis

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Name

Identification
Platylepis capensis Kunth [family CYPERACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by K.S. Kunth,
Related name
  • Ascolepis capensis
  • Platylepis capensis

Flora

Entry for ASCOLEPIS capensis Ridley [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
ASCOLEPIS capensis Ridley [family CYPERACEAE], in Trans. Linn. Soc. ser. 2, ii. 164
Platylepis capensis Kunth [family ], Enum. ii. 269; Boeck. in Linnæa, xxxvii. 119.
Platylepis dioica Steud. [family ], Syn. Pl. Glum. ii. 131.
Information
glabrous; rhizome short, weak; stems 8–16 in. long, tufted, striated, hardly trigonous, each with 1 head of 1–3 spikelets; leaves as long as the stem, or only half as long, 1/8 in. broad, enrolled in the dry state; bracts 3, spreading, similar to the leaves, with a broad short, dilated base, lowest 1–4 in. long; heads 1/3– 2/3 in. in diam., white or white straw-colour; spikelets with the tips of the numerous scales spreading on all sides, completely obscuring the narrow oblong small glumes; scale utricular, flattened, with a slit on the posticous face through which the style peeps, and a large, solid, linear-conic, obtuse, white beak; style-branches 2; nut 1/2– 2/3 the length of the scale (without its beak), black. null
Distribution
COAST REGION Stockenstrom Div.; Kat Berg, 4000–5000 ft., Drège!EASTERN REGION Tembuland; damp places at the foot of Bazeia Mountain, 2300 ft., Baur, 133! Pondoland; near the mouth of the Umtentu River, Drège! Natal; near Durban, Sutherland! Noods Berg, Wood, 126! Inanda, Wood, 307! and without precise locality, Buchanan, 89! 305! Gerrard, 486!KALAHARI REGION Orange Free State; Nelsons Kop, Cooper, 911! Transvaal; Pretoria, at Koedus Poort, Rehmann, 4638! Magalies Berg, Burke! Hooge Veld, by the Komati River, Nelson, 12!SOUTH AFRICA without locality, Zeyher, 1762!

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