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Scirpus bergianus

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Identification
Scirpus antarcticus L. [family CYPERACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on Sheet, Scirpus bergianus Spreng. [family CYPERACEAE ] Verified by Not on Sheet,
Related name
  • Isolepis marginata
  • Scirpus cartilagineus
  • Scirpus antarcticus
  • Scirpus bergianus

Flora

Entry for SCIRPUS antarcticus Linn. [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
SCIRPUS antarcticus Linn. [family CYPERACEAE], Mant. 181, not of Thunb.
SCIRPUS bergianus Spreng. [family CYPERACEAE], Syst. i. 212; Steud. in Flora, 1829, i. 149; Boeck. in Linnæa, xxxvi. 693.
SCIRPUS setaceus Thunb. [family CYPERACEAE], Prod. 17; Fl. Cap. ed. Schult. 95.
SCIRPUS setaceus Steud. var. [family CYPERACEAE], in Flora, 1829, i. 145 partly.
SCIRPUS ficiniæformis Boeck. ex C. B. Clarke [family CYPERACEAE], in Durand and Schinz, Conspect. Fl. Afr. v. 617.
Isolepis bergiana Schultes [family CYPERACEAE], in Roem. et Schult. Syst. Veg. ii. Mant. 532; Nees in Linnæa, vii. 500; viii. 82; x. 291; Kunth, Enum. ii. 194; Boeck. in Flora, 1860, 33.
Isolepis chrysocarpa Nees [family CYPERACEAE], in Linnæa, vii. 499, viii. 80, in Obs. t. 3, fig. 2 b; x. 152.
Isolepis plebeia Schrad. [family CYPERACEAE], Anal. Fl. Cap. 18, t. 1, fig. 1 (fig. 6 excl.); Nees in Linnæa, viii. 80 partly; x. 153.
Isolepis setacea Nees [family CYPERACEAE], in Linnæa, x. 151.
Isolepis phæocarpa Nees [family CYPERACEAE], in Linnæa, x. 153.
Isolepis sphærocarpa Kunth [family CYPERACEAE], Enum. ii. 195.
Isolepis seslerioides Kunth [family CYPERACEAE], Enum. ii. 195.
Cyperus minutus Roth [family CYPERACEAE], Nov. Pl. Sp. 32; Nees in Linnæa, vii. 513.
Cyperus rothianus Roem. et Schult. [family CYPERACEAE], Syst. Veg. ii. Mant. 95; Kunth, Enum. ii. 25; cf. Boeck. in Flora, 1860, 33.
Ficinia antarctica Drège [family CYPERACEAE], in Linnæa, xx. 249.
Information
glabrous, tufted, annual; stem 5–10 in. long in the type form of Linnæus (which is I. seslerioides, Kunth), more commonly 2–6 in. (S. cartilagineus, Poir., or S. bergianus, Spreng.), bearing a head of 1–13 (commonly 3–8) spikelets; leaves often 1/2 the length of the stem, narrowly linear; lowest bract 1/4–1 in. long, leaf-like, usually longer than the inflorescence; spikelets 1/4 by 1/8 in., angular, not terete; glumes often 3-ranked or the lower nearly 2-ranked, rigid, keeled, ovate, tip triangular or scarcely pointed, back curved, each side with 4–6 curved lines, yellow, with a larger or smaller chestnut-red patch near the top; hypogynous bristles 0; stamens 3, anthers linear-oblong, scarcely apiculate; nut 1/2 the length of the glume, ellipsoid, trigonous, pyramidal at the top, minutely tubercular, somewhat transversely undulate or smooth, golden or becoming black; outermost cells short, longitudinal-oblong, more or less inflated; style linear, nearly as long as the nut, branches 3 longer than the style. null
Range
Also in St. Helena, Extra-Tropical Australia and New Zealand.
Distribution
COAST REGION Clanwilliam Div.; Ebenezer, below 100 ft., Drège! Cape Div., near Cape Town, Thunberg, Harvey, 190! Pappe! Table Mountain, Ecklon, 880! gardens and roadsides, Ecklon, 879a! Wynberg Sand Flats, Bolus   2862! Cape Flats, near Rondebosch, Burchell, 183! Simons Bay, Wright! Milne, 228! Constantia Mountain, Schlechter, 545; Swellendam Div.; near Swellendam, Zeyher, 4411! Riversdale Div.; near the Zoetemelks River, Burchell, 6724! between the Little Vet River and Kampsche Berg, Burchell, 6899! George Div.; Montagu Pass, Rehmann, 72! Humansdorp Div.; Kromme River Heights, Bolus, 1339! Port Elizabeth Div., E.S.C.A. Herb., 196! Albany Div.; near Howisons Poort, 1800 ft., MacOwan, 1353! Cathcart Div.; Blesbok Flats, 3000–4000 ft., Drège!SOUTH AFRICA without locality, R. Brown! Drège, 1599! 7418! Sieber, 98! Bergius, 36! 37! Harvey, 344! 348! 373! 376! MacGillivray, 426! Ecklon and Zeyher, 49! 50! Rehmann, 912! 1798! Bolus, 5272! Mund and Maire!

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