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Scirpus dichotomus

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Identification
Scirpus dichotomus L. [family CYPERACEAE ] (stored under name); Fimbristylis diphylla (Retz.) Vahl [family CYPERACEAE ] Verified by Henry Trimen, Fimbristylis dichotoma (L.) Vahl [family CYPERACEAE ]
Related name
  • Scirpus olivaceus
  • Fimbristylis brizoides
  • Fimbristylis dichotomum
  • Scirpus miliaceus
  • Fimbristylis diphylla
  • Fimbristylis bisumbellata
  • Abildgaardia eragrostis
  • Cyperus dichotomus
  • Scirpus bisumbellatus
  • Scirpus indet.
  • Cyperus brizoides
  • Fimbristylis obtusifolia
  • Fimbristylis sp.
  • Adiantum fragile
  • Scirpus dichotomus
  • Fimbristylis ferruginea
  • Fimbristylis dichotoma

Flora

Entry for FIMBRISTYLIS dichotoma Vahl [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
FIMBRISTYLIS dichotoma Vahl [family CYPERACEAE], Enum. ii. 287;—Kunth, Enum. ii. 225; Boeck. in Linnæa, xxxvii. 12 partly; C. B. Clarke in Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. vi. 635.
Scirpus dichotomus Linn. [family CYPERACEAE], Sp. Plant. ed. 2, 74; Rottb. Descr. et Ic. 57, t. 13, fig. 1 (cf. Hoppe in Flora, 1825, 177–181).
Information
annual, puberulous or minutely pubescent; stem 2–8 in. long; leaves often as long as the stem, 1/12 in. broad; umbel usually compound (or decompound); bracts 3–4, often as long as the umbel, similar to the leaves; spikelets all pedicelled, 1/5 by 1/12 in., dense; glumes boat-shaped, ovate, acute, 3–1-nerved; stamens 2–1 (or sometimes 3 according to Boeckeler); style nearly always hairy, branches 2, shortish; nut 1/3 the length of the glume, obovoid, biconvex, pale or scarcely brown, with 5–9 ribs on each face due to the cells being vertically superposed.This very common weed is difficult to distinguish from F. diphylla. Boeckeler's varieties of F. dichotoma and his American examples are here referred to F. diphylla. In F. dichotoma, as here understood, the glumes are distinctly keeled, so that the spikelets have numerous short longitudinal angles. null
Range
Ranges from Portugal and West Africa to Hong Kong and New South Wales.
Distribution
WESTERN REGION Clanwilliam Div.; near the Oliphants River, below 1000 ft., Zeyher, 1779 partly!

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