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Typha capensis

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Name

Identification
Typha capensis (Rohrb.) N.E.Br. [family TYPHACEAE ]
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Flora

Entry for TYPHA capensis Rohrb. [family TYPHACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Capensis
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Capensis, Vol 7, page 30, (1900) Author: (By N. E. BROWN.)
Names
TYPHA capensis Rohrb. [family TYPHACEAE], in Verhandl. Bot. Ver. Prov. Brandenb. xi. 96;—Kronfeld in Verhandl. Zoolog.-Bot. Gesselsch. Wien, 1889, 180.
TYPHA latifolia Krauss [family TYPHACEAE], in Flora, 1845, 343, not of Linn.
Information
plant attaining 6 ft. in height, glabrous; blade of leaf 1 1/2–4 ft. long, 2–7 lin. broad, linear or strap shaped, obtusely pointed, convex on the back, not keeled at its junction with the sheath; male and female spikes subequal, or the female a little the longer, 3 3/4–7 in. long, contiguous or separated by a short interval; stamens mixed with brownish bracts or scales, that are linear-spathulate or cuneate-spathulate, entire and acute, or variously toothed; pollen simple; female flowers usually ebracteolate, or with a few narrow spathulate-lanceolate, colourless bracteoles mingled with them; stigmas spathulate-lanceolate, longer than the filiform hairs. null
Range
Also in Tropical Africa and Madagascar.
Distribution
COAST REGION Queenstown Div.; Shiloh, 3500 ft., Baur, 893!EASTERN REGION Natal; banks of rivers, Krauss. Inanda, Wood, 1378!SOUTH AFRICA without locality, Harvey, 558! Ecklon and Zeyher, 913, 1222.

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