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Pycreus umbrosus

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Identification
Pycreus umbrosus Nees [family CYPERACEAE ] Verified by Clarke, C.B., Cyperus mundii (Nees) Kunth [family CYPERACEAE ] Cyperus brunneoater Boeck. [family CYPERACEAE ] Pycreus nitidus (Lam.) J.Raynal [family CYPERACEAE ] (stored under name);
Related name
  • Pycreus umbrosus
  • Pycreus nitidus
  • Cyperus mundii
  • Cyperus brunneoater

Flora

Entry for PYCREUS umbrosus Nees [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
PYCREUS umbrosus Nees [family CYPERACEAE], in Linnæa, x. 130
Cyperus lanceus Thunb. [family CYPERACEAE], Prod. 18; Fl. Cap. ed. Schult. 101; Nees in Linnæa, vii. 517; x. 135; Steud in Flora, 1829, 153.
Cyperus atratus Krauss [family CYPERACEAE], in Flora, 1845, 753.
Cyperus umbraticola Kunth [family CYPERACEAE], Enum. ii. 13; Boeck. in Linnæa, xxxv. 443.
Cyperus permutatus Boeck. [family CYPERACEAE], in Linnæa, xxxv. 477.
Information
glabrous; stolons long, stout, clothed by distant scales 1 1/4 in. long; stem solitary, 4–20 in. long, triquetrous at the top; leaves all near the base of the stem, often 12 by 1/4 in.; umbel 3–4 in. in diam., or contracted to 1 compound head; bracts 3–4, lowest 3–8 in. long, similar to the leaves; spikelets 3–9 together, spicate, ebracteate, 1/2 by 1/6 in., much compressed, 18-nutted, brown, or chestnut-brown; glumes ovate boat-shaped, obtuse; style-branches 2; nut small, obovoid, 1/4– 1/3 the length of the glume, dark-brown, superficial cells round-hexagonal. null
Range
Also in Tropical Africa and Madagascar.
Distribution
COAST REGION Clanwilliam Div., Zeyher! Cape Div.; Table Mountain, Ecklon, 885! Milne, 224! MacGillivray, 417! Cape Flats, Thunberg, Burchell, 55! 676! Krauss! Simons Bay, Wright! Paarl Div.; Berg River, Drège, 1598! Worcester Div.; Brand Vley, Thom, 1063! Caledon Div.; Grabouw, near Palmiet River, 700 ft., Bolus, 4231! Riversdale Div.; between Little Vet River and Kampsche Berg, Burchell, 6862! Knysna Div.; hills near Melville, Burchell, 5453! Uitenhage Div.; Van Stadens Hoogte, MacOwan, 2083! Zeyher, 4357! and without precise locality, Ecklon and Zeyher, 634! 715! King Williamstown Div.; Toise River Station, 3500 ft., Kuntze, 277!EASTERN REGION Griqualand East, near Matatiele, 5000 ft., Tyson, 1614! Pondoland; Umtsikaba River, Drège! Natal; Umlaas River, Krauss, 205! Durban Flat, Wood, 4099! and without precise locality. Buchanan, 97! 308! Drège, 4400!KALAHARI REGION Transvaal; Pretoria, Rehmann, 4772! 4773! Hooge Veld, at Donkers Hoek, Rehmann, 6151! 6553!SOUTH AFRICA without locality, Krebs! Bergius, 172! Harvey, 81! 351! 375! 382! Ecklon and Zeyher, 1! 76!

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