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Scirpus diabolicus

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Identification
Scirpus diabolicus Steud. [family CYPERACEAE ] Verified by Not on sheet., Isolepis decipiens Nees [family CYPERACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on sheet.,
Related name
  • Ficinia antarctica
  • Scirpus diabolicus
  • Isolepis diabolica
  • Isolepis decipiens
  • Scirpus indet.

Flora

Entry for SCIRPUS diabolicus Steud. [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 diabolicus Steud. [family CYPERACEAE], in Flora, 1829, i. 147
Isolepis diabolica Schrad. [family CYPERACEAE], Anal. Fl. Cap. 21.
Isolepis antarctica Nees [family CYPERACEAE], in Linnæa, vii. 505; viii. 83; x. 162.
Ficinia antarctica Nees [family CYPERACEAE], in Linnæa, ix. 292; Kunth, Enum. ii. 255.
Ficinia schinziana Boeck. [family CYPERACEAE], in Abhandl. Ver. Brandenb. xxix. 47.
Information
glabrous; rhizome slender, becoming woody; stems 6–15 in. long, each bearing a head of 3–9 spikelets; leaves often as long as the stem, 1/12 in. broad, inrolled in the dried examples; lower bract 1/2–1 1/2 in. long, suberect so that the head appears lateral; spikelets 1/4 in. long or more, ellipsoid, dense, chestnut-brown; glumes broad-ovate, shortly acuminate, with radiating pale red nerves (exceedingly like those of Ficinia); nut as of S. setaceus, but a little larger. Boeck. in Linnæa, xxxvi. 505. null
Distribution
CENTRAL REGION Somerset Div.; Bosch Berg, 2500 ft., MacOwan, 1743!COAST REGION Cape Div.; marshy places at the foot of Devils Mountain, Ecklon, 871! Table Mountain, Schinz!SOUTH AFRICA without locality, Zeyher! Verreaux! Pappe, 94!

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