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Scirpus marginatus

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Identification
Scirpus marginatus Not on sheet. [family CYPERACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on sheet.,
Related name
  • Isolepis marginata
  • Scirpus cartilagineus
  • Isolepis inundata
  • Scirpus marginatus
  • Scirpus antarcticus
  • Isolepis cartilaginea
  • Scirpus sp.
Common name
  • Square-stemmed spike-rush, Flora of North America Vol. 23

Flora

Entry for FICINIA filiformis Schrad. [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
FICINIA filiformis Schrad. [family CYPERACEAE], Anal. Fl. Cap. 46;—Nees in Linnæa, x. 173, excluding var. contorta; Kunth, Enum. ii. 253 partly; Boeck. in Linnæa, xxxvii. 59.
Schœnus filiformis Lam. [family ], Ill. i. 135.
Schœnus oliganthos Kunth [family ], Enum. ii. 253, in syn.
Cyperus crinitus Poir. [family CYPERACEAE], in Lam. Encyc. vi. 752.
Scirpus marginatus Thunb. [family CYPERACEAE], Prod. 17; Fl. Cap. ed. Schultes, 96.
Scirpus crinitus Roem. et Schultes [family CYPERACEAE], Syst. Veg. ii. 125.
Scirpus obliganthus Steud. [family CYPERACEAE], in Flora, 1829, i. 146.
Scirpus oliganthus Steud. [family CYPERACEAE], Nomencl. i. 634 in syn. and ii. 540.
Isolepis oliganthes Nees [family CYPERACEAE], in Linnæa, vii. 503.
Isolepis marginata Dietr. [family CYPERACEAE], Sp. Pl. ii. 110.
Isolepis pumila Steud. [family CYPERACEAE], Syn. Pl. Glum. ii. 90.
Bæothryon crinitum Dietr. [family ], Sp. Pl. ii. 94.
Information
glabrous; stolons and rhizome 0; stems 2–8 in. long, densely tufted, setaceous, with 4–5 elevated strong angles (between these apparently dotted), carrying 1 head of 1–3 (rarely more) sessile spikelets; leaf-sheaths scarious, white or discoloured, broad, rolling up and wearing away (not lacerate-fimbriate), uppermost leafless; leaves as though a prolongation of the midrib of the sheath, sometimes 2/3 the length of the stem, terete, very similar to the stem but slenderer; bracts not more than 2, lower as though a continuation of the stem 1/5–1 in. long; spikelets 1/8– 1/6 by 1/12– 1/8 in., 4–12 flowered, chestnut or brown; glumes boat-shaped, with no definite keel, ovate, obtuse or truncate, chestnut-red with 13 paler curved striations, central nerve not reaching the tip of the glume, margins and tip of glume scarious, not incurved; stamens 3; anthers linear-oblong, yellow, crested; style much shorter than the nut, linear, deciduous, branches 3 linear, longish; gynophore distinct, obpyramidal, margin 3-lobed; nut 2/5 the length of the glume, round-trigonous, obovoid-truncate, about as broad as long, smooth, finally a leaden-black green-tinged. null
Range
Also grows on Kilimanjaro at an elevation of 10,000 ft.
Distribution
CENTRAL REGION Worcester Div.; near Touws River Station, Bolus, 7459!COAST REGION Cape Div.; Table Mountain, Ecklon, 873! Milne, 237! Mudd! Simons Bay, Wright, 509! MacGillivray, 411! Devils Mountain, Ecklon, 874! Tulbagh Div.; mountains in the vicinity of New Kloof, 1000 ft., MacOwan, Herb. Aust.-Afr., 1689! Worcester Div.; Dutoits Kloof, 2000–3000 ft., Drège! Caledon Div.; Houw Hoek Mountains, 2000 ft., Schlechter, 7425!SOUTH AFRICA without locality, Zeyher! Thunberg, Bergius! Pappe, 90! 109! MacGillivray, 427! Drège!
Notes
Several of the succeeding Ficinias differ very little from this species; and the synonyms cited may belong partly to them.

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