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Schismus calycinus

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Name

Identification
Schismus perennis Ducellier et Maire [family POACEAE ] (stored under name); Schismus calycinus (L.) Coss.et Dur. [family POACEAE ]
Related name
  • Schismus calycinus
  • schismus calycinus
  • Schismus perennis
  • schismus marginatus

Flora

Entry for SCHISMUS fasciculatus Beauv. [family POACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Capensis
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Capensis, Vol 7, page 310, (1900) Author: (By O. STAPF.)
Names
SCHISMUS fasciculatus Beauv. [family POACEAE], Agrost. 74, 177;—Trin. Fund. Agrost. 148.
SCHISMUS marginatus Beauv. [family POACEAE], Agrost. in the index 177, and in the Expl. Pl. et Fig. 10, t. 15, fig. 4; Nees in Linnæa, vii. 323; Fl. Afr. Austr. 421; Kunth, Enum. i. 385; Suppl. 318, t. 28, fig. 2; Steud. Syn. Pl. Glum. i. 295.
SCHISMUS brevifolius Nees [family POACEAE], Fl. Afr. Austr. 422; Steud. Syn. Pl. Glum. i. 295.
SCHISMUS calycinus Duval-Jouve [family POACEAE], in Billot, Adnot. 285–290; Coss. in Coss. & Dur. Expl. Scient. Algér. Phan. 138; Hack. in Oest. Bot. Zeit. 1878, 189; Aschers. in Oest. Bot. Zeit. 1878, 254; Durand & Schinz, Consp. Fl. Afr. v. 907; non C. Koch.
Festuca calycina Loefl. [family POACEAE], It. Hisp. 116.
Festuca barbata Linn. [family POACEAE], Amoen. Acad. iii. 400.
Kœleria calycina DC. [family ], Fl. Franç. vi. 271.
Electra calycina Panz. [family ], in Muench. Denkschr. iv. (1813) 299, cum ic.
Information
annual, tufted; culms often very numerous, geniculately ascending, 1–8 in. long, very slender, smooth, 2-noded, internodes enclosed or exserted; leaves glabrous or very sparingly hairy, often equalling or overtopping the culms; lowermost sheaths scarious, pallid, prominently few-nerved, the upper very tight, all bearded at the mouth; ligule a ciliate rim; blades very narrow, linear, acute, 1–3 in. long, up to 2/3 lin. broad, flat or setaceously convolute, filiform, flaccid or somewhat rigid and curved, scaberulous or smooth; panicle contracted, oblong, 5–14 lin. by 2–7 lin., dense, sometimes much reduced; spikelets narrow, 2 1/2–3 1/2 lin. long, greenish, 6–8-flowered; glumes with rather broad and marked white margins, the lower oblong-lanceolate, acute, 5–7-nerved, 1 1/2–2 lin. long, the upper lanceolate, acute to subacuminate, 3–5-nerved, slightly longer; valves obliquely obovate-oblong in profile, 7/8–1 1/8 lin. long, shortly and subobtusely 2-lobed, minutely mucronate or emucronate, densely hairy all over below the broad hyaline tip or subglabrous except at the sides; lower pales exceeding their valves; anthers 1/8– 1/6 lin. long; grain globose-obovoid to obovoid, 3/8 lin. long. null
Distribution
CENTRAL REGION Beaufort West Div.; on the Nieuw Veld, near Bok Poort, 3500–4500 ft., Drège! Somerset Div.; near Somerset, Bowker! Graaff Reinet Div.; by the Sunday River, near Graaff Reinet, 2500 ft., Bolus, 461 partly! 738! Var. β: Somerset Div.; Biesjes Fontein, near Loots Kloof, 2800 ft., MacOwan, 1611! Var. γ: Somerset Div.; in woods at the foot of the Bosch Berg, 3000 ft., MacOwan, 1495! Graaff Reinet Div.; common on sandy ground on river banks near Graaff Reinet, 2500 ft., Bolus, 461 (with the type)! Fraserburg Div.; on the rocky hill at Dwaal River Poort, Burchell, 1483! Ceres Div.; at Ongeluks River, Burchell, 1227! Var. δ: Colesberg Div.; Colesberg, Shaw, 13!COAST REGION Worcester Div.; roadside near Hex River East Station, Wolley Dod, 3705! Var. β: Vanrhynsdorp Div.; Ebenezer, Drège! Uitenhage Div.; near Uitenhage, Zeyher! Var. γ: Swellendam Div.; mountain ridges along the lower part of the Zonder Einde River, Zeyher, 4579!KALAHARI REGION Griqualand West, Mrs. Barber!WESTERN REGION Var. β: Little Namaqualand; near the Haazenkraals River, 2000–2500 ft., Drège! under shrubs near Mieren Kasteel, 1000 ft., Drège! Vanrhynsdorp Div.; Zout River, 450 ft., Schlechter, 8107!
Notes
I have very little doubt that these varieties are (with perhaps the exception of the last) entirely dependent on the conditions of the habitat, and also that S. ovalis (Nees, Fl. Afr. Austr. 421) and S. scaberrimus (Nees, l.c. 423), so far as the latter does not come under var. tenuis, represent only states of S. fasciculatus in a broad sense. The localities given by Nees for them are:— S. ovalis —COASTREGION: Robertson Div.; between Kochmans Kloof and Gauritz River, along with the type, Ecklon. S. scaberrimus —CENTRALREGION: Beaufort West Div.; between Ganze Fontein and Bok Poort, 3500 ft., Drège. WESTERNREGION: Little Namaqualand; Kamies Bergen, 3500 ft., Drège. S. scaberrimus, var. nanus —CENTRALREGION: Richmond Div; near the Zeekoe River, 5000 ft., Drège. WESTERNREGION: Little Namaqualand; near Kuigunjels on the Orange River, Drège.

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