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Scirpus palustris

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Identification
Scirpus palustris L. [family CYPERACEAE ] Verified by Not on sheet, Eleocharis palustris (L.) Roemer & Schultes [family CYPERACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Strandhede S.O., 1960
Related name
  • Eleocharis palustris
  • Eleocharis uniglumis
  • Scirpus palustris
  • Eleocharis fennica
  • Scirpus uniglumis
  • Scirpus multicaulis
  • Eleocharis multicaulis
  • Scirpus sp.
  • Scirpus indet.
Common name
  • marsh spike-rush, Flora of North America Vol. 23
  • Common spike-rush, Flora of North America Vol. 23
  • éléocharide des marais, Flora of North America Vol. 23

Flora

Entry for ELEOCHARIS palustris R. Br. [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
ELEOCHARIS palustris R. Br. [family CYPERACEAE], Prod. 224 in note;—Nees in Linnæa, vii. 509; Kunth. Enum. ii. 147; C. B. Clarke in Journ. Bot. 1887, 267, and in Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. vi. 628.
ELEOCHARIS limosa Drège var. a [family CYPERACEAE], (not b, c) Pflanzengeogr. Documente 181.
ELEOCHARIS dregeana Steud. [family CYPERACEAE], Syn. Pl. Glum. ii. 78.
Scirpus palustris Linn. [family CYPERACEAE], Sp. Plant. ed. 2, 70 partly.
Heleocharis palustris Lindl. [family CYPERACEAE], Syn. Brit. Fl. 280; Boeck. in Linnæa, xxxvi. 466 partly, i.e. excluding all examples with 3-fid style.
Limnochloa capensis Nees [family ], in Linnæa, x. 185; not of Krauss.
Information
stems 4–20 in. long, on a creeping rhizome, usually distant, terete; spikelet 1/3– 2/3 by 1/6– 1/5 in., subcylindric, dense; glumes obtuse, without keel, brown or chestnut, with scarious margins; bristles 6 or often fewer, as long as the nut; style-branches 2, longish; nut small, obovoid, dorsally compressed, smooth, yellow or brown; style-base ovoid or conic, 1/3– 1/2 the length of the nut. null
Range
Distributed throughout the World except Australia; rare in tropical regions.
Distribution
CENTRAL REGION Somerset Div.; Bosch Berg, 3000 ft., MacOwan, 1741! Burchell, 3046! Richmond Div.; vicinity of Styl Kloof, near Richmond, 4000–5000 ft., Drège! Aliwal North Div., 5000 ft., Flanagan, 1661!COAST REGION Komgha Div.; between Zandplaat and Komgha, 2000–3000 ft., Drège.KALAHARI REGION Griqualand West; Ongeluk, Burchell, 2649!SOUTH AFRICA without locality, Drège 4376! Verreaux!

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