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CYPERUS marginatus Thunb. [family CYPERACEAE]

Date Updated: 19 August 2007

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
CYPERUS marginatus Thunb. [family CYPERACEAE], Prod. 18;—Fl. Cap. ed. Schult. 100; Nees in Linnæa, x. 134; Boeck. in Linnæa, xxxv. 571. CYPERUS blandus Kunth [family CYPERACEAE], Enum. ii. 36; Boeck. in Linnæa, xxxv, 570. CYPERUS fonticola Kunth [family CYPERACEAE], Enum. ii. 36. CYPERUS prolifer Nees [family CYPERACEAE], in Linnæa, vii. 494, at least in part. CYPERUS prionodes Steud. [family CYPERACEAE], Syn. Pl. Glum. ii. 22.
Information
glabrous, stout; rhizome horizontal, thick, woody, often several in. long, with ovate scales; stems 1–2 1/2 ft. long, terete at the top; leaves none; uppermost sheath produced 1/4–1 in., greenish; umbel compound or simple or congested into 1 head, 1–5 in. in diam.; bracts 2, lower suberect, much shorter than the umbel; spikelets 3–7, digitate (in Baur, 886, nearly all solitary), chestnut-brown, glistening, up to 3/4 by 1/8 in. (usually less than 1/2 in.), 6–38-flowered, strongly compressed, hard; glumes boat-shaped, elliptic, closely imbricate, scarcely nerved; keel excurrent in a short point; margins often glistening, hyaline; stamens 3; anthers linear, not crested; nut 2/5 the length of the glume, ellipsoid, trigonous, brown; style as long as the nut; branches 3, about as long as the style. null
Range
Also in Angola, and at Walfisch Bay.
Distribution
CENTRAL REGION Calvinia Div.; Lospers Flats. 3000–4000 ft., Zeyher, 1753! Beaufort West Div.; Nieuw Veld Mountains, 3000–5000 ft., near Beaufort West, Drège! Somerset Div.; near the Little Fish River, 2300–2800 ft., MacOwan, 1916! 1955! 2019! 2019b! Richmond Div., vicinity of Styl Kloof, near Richmond, 4000–5000 ft., Drège! Colesberg Div., Shaw, 20! Albert Div.; near the Orange River, Cooper. 1373! Burghersdorp, Flanagan, 1667! Aliwal North Div.; bank of the Orange River, near Aliwal North (Buffel Vallei), Drège, 4407! Leeuwen Spruit, between Kraai River and the Witte Bergen, 4500 ft., Drège, 7392!COAST REGION Clanwilliam Div.; Bosch Kloof, 1000 ft., Drège. Worcester Div.; mountains near Hex River, 2500 ft., Bolus, 5273! Port Elizabeth Div.; E.S.C.A. Herb. 237! Komgha Div.; by the Kei River, 500 ft., Drège. Cathcart Div.; Blesbok Flats, 3000–4000 ft., Drège. Queenstown Div.; Shiloh, 3500 ft., Baur, 886! Klaarsmits River, 3500 ft., Baur, 983!EASTERN REGION Natal; Colenso, Kuntze, 239! and without precise locality, Drège, 4407.KALAHARI REGION Griqualand West; Lower Campbell, Burchell, 1814! 1815! Kimberley, Marloth, 874! Orange Free State; near Kaffir Fontein, MacLea in Herb. Bolus, 5815! near Winburg, Buchanan, 252! Caledon River, Burke! and without precise locality, Buchanan, 125! Basutoland, Zeyher, 8! Bechuanaland; near the source of Kuruman River, Burchell, 2454! Transvaal; Hooge Veld, Rehmann, 6635! Vaal River, Nelson, 198!SOUTH AFRICA without locality, Thunberg, Zeyher, 1747! Ecklon and Zeyher, 16! 135!WESTERN REGION Little Namaqualand; between Verleptpram and the mouth of the Orange River, 1000 ft., Drège!
CYPERUS marginatus Thunb. [family CYPERACEAE]
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