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Rhynchospora laxa

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Name

Identification
Rhynchospora glauca Vahl [family CYPERACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Charles Baron Clarke, Rhynchospora laxa R.Br. [family CYPERACEAE ] Scirpus laxus (Vahl) Poir. [family CYPERACEAE ]
Related name
  • Rhynchospora laxa
  • Schoenus sp.
  • Rhynchospora rugosa
  • Scirpus laxus
  • Schoenus longirostris
  • Rhynchospora corymbosa
  • Rhynchospora glauca

Flora

Entry for RYNCHOSPORA glauca Vahl [family ]
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
RYNCHOSPORA glauca Vahl [family ], Enum. ii. 233. —C. B. Clarke in Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. vi. 671, in Durand & Schinz, Conspect. Fl. Afr. v. 654, and in Dyer, Fl. Cap. vii. 268; Urban, Symb. Antill. ii. 128.
Rhynchospora glauca Roem. & Schultes [family CYPERACEAE], Syst. Veg. ii. 85; Kunth, Enum. ii. 297 excl. several synonyms; Boeck. in Linnæa, xxxvii. 585.
Rhynchospora laxa R. Br. [family CYPERACEAE], Prod. 230; Kunth, Enum. ii. 298; Coss. & Durieu, Expl. Scient. Algér. Glum. 239.
Information
Glabrous. Rhizome very short, horizontal. Stems 1–2 1/2 ft. long, rather slender, with nodes and leaves (or bracts) throughout its length. Leaves 8–12 by 1/8 in. Panicle compound, oblong (sometimes reduced to a quasi-terminal contracted corymb), often 8 by 2 in., with distant lower peduncles carrying 20–40 spikelets each; peduncles and pedicels suberect. Spikelets 1/8– 1/5 in. long, ovoid, subacute, chestnut-brown, each perfecting 1 or 2 nuts. Hypogynous bristles 6, about as long as the nut, brown, with upward-pointing teeth. Style about as long as the nut; branches 2, longer than the style. Nut 1/2– 2/3 the length of the glume, broadly-ellipsoid, biconvex, chestnut-brown, obscurely transversely wrinkled by wavy lines; style-base 1/3 the length of the nut, depressed conic.
Range
Common in nearly all tropical and warm temperate regions, except Tropical Africa.
Distribution
Nyasaland Mozamb. Dist. Mount Zomba, 4000–6000 ft., Whyte!

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