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Carex ecklonii

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Name

Identification
Carex ecklonii Nees [family CYPERACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by C.G.D. Nees,
Related name
  • Carex zeyheri
  • Carex ecklonii

Flora

Entry for CAREX extensa Gooden. [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
CAREX extensa Gooden. [family CYPERACEAE], in Trans. Linn. Soc. ii. 175, t. 21, fig. 7;—Schkuhr, Riedgr. i. 74; ii. 56, t. Xx. 72, and t. V. 72; Kunth, Enum. ii. 447; Boeck. in Linnæa, xli. 288.
CAREX Ecklonii Nees [family CYPERACEAE], in Linnæa, x. 203; Kunze, Suppl. Riedgr. 25, t. 5; Kunth, Enum. ii. 517.
Information
glabrous; stems 6–18 in. long, nearly smooth; leaves usually as long as the stem, 1/10– 1/5 in. broad, thinly scabrous; spikes 3–4 within an inch of the top of the stem, 1/2– 3/4 in. long, terminal male, the others female; bracts long, often overtopping the inflorescence by 4–7 in.; female spikes 1/2 by 1/4 in. (but, in Buchanan 167, 1 1/3 by 1/4 in., not crowded, lowest 1 3/4 in. distant); glumes oblong, often truncate, brown, with the 3-nerved brown keel often excurrent as a tough point hardly reaching the top of the utricle; male glumes nearly the same as the female; style 3-fid; utricle 1/6 in. long, ellipsoid trigonous, 10–13-nerved, glabrous, narrowed into a short conic beak about 1/4 the length of the utricle. null
Range
Widely distributed in Europe, North Africa, the Orient, and North and South America.
Distribution
COAST REGION Port Elizabeth Div.; common along the coast, E.S.C.A. Herb., 177!EASTERN REGION Natal; near Greytown, Buchanan, 167!SOUTH AFRICA without locality, Bergius! Verreaux! Harvey, 349! Pappe! Auerswald!
Notes
The South African material agrees with the largest European examples; having the keel of the glumes strongly excurrent, the beak rather long, and has both narrow and broader leaves. Boott agrees with Boeckeler that C. Ecklonii cannot be kept distinct from C. extensa.

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