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Scirpus intricatus

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Type of Scirpus intricatus L. [family CYPERACEAE]

Lectotype of Scirpus intricatus L. [family CYPERACEAE]

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Scirpus intricatus L. [family CYPERACEAE ] Verified by P. Vorster, 1977 Cyperus aristatus Boeck. [family CYPERACEAE ] Verified by B.L. Burtt, Mariscus squarrosus (L.) C.B.Clarke [family CYPERACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on sheet,

Flora

Entry for CYPERUS aristatus Rottb. [family CYPERACEAE]

Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)

Reference Sources

Flora Capensis, Vol 7, page 149, (1900) Author: (By C. B. CLARKE.)

CYPERUS aristatus Rottb. [family CYPERACEAE], Descr. et. Ic. 23, t. 6, fig. 1;—Kunth, Enum. ii. 23; Steud. in Flora, 1842, 585; Boeck. in Linnæa, xxxv. 500; C. B. Clarke in Journ. Linn. Soc. xxi. 91, and in Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. vi. 606.

CYPERUS squarrosus Linn. [family CYPERACEAE], Amoen. Acad. iv. 303; Sp. Plant. ed. ii. 66 partly.

Scirpus intricatus Linn. [family CYPERACEAE], Mant. 182; Thunb. Prod. 18; Fl. Cap. ed. Schult. 98.

annual, glabrous; stems tufted, 1–6 in. long, trigonous at the top, smooth; leaves about as long as the stem, 1/12– 1/10 in. broad; umbel simple or reduced to 1 head, up to 5 in. in diam.; bracts 3–5, overtopping the umbel, similar to the leaves; spikelets 5–40, closely spicate, compressed, green or brown, 1/2 by 1/6 in., 6–24-flowered; rhachilla not winged; glumes boat-shaped, ovate-lanceolate, 7–9-ribbed over nearly their entire width, keel green produced as a recurved bristle; stamen 1; anther oblong, not crested; nut 1/3 as long as the glume (bristle included), trigonous, narrow-obovoid, dull brown; style shorter than the nut, branches 3 linear, shortly exserted from the glume. null

Found in all tropical and warm-temperate regions.

KALAHARI REGION Transvaal; Hooge Veld, between Porter and Trigards Fontein, Rehmann, 6647! and without precise locality, McLea in Herb. Bolus, 6016!SOUTH AFRICA without locality, Thunberg, Fleck, 817!