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CYPERUS textilis 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 textilis Thunb. [family CYPERACEAE], Prod. 18;—Fl. Cap. ed. Schult. 100; Nees in Linnæa, vii. 513; x. 135; Kunth, Enum. ii. 32; Boeck. in Linnæa, xxxv. 567.
CYPERUS Burchellii Schrad. [family CYPERACEAE], Anal. Fl. Cap. 11; Nees in Linnæa, x. 135; Kunth, Enum. ii. 33.
CYPERUS Smithii Schrad. [family CYPERACEAE], Anal. Fl. Cap. 12 in Obs.; Nees in Linnæa, x. 135; Kunth, Enum. ii. 115.
CYPERUS asperifolius Desfont. [family CYPERACEAE], Cat. Hort. Paris ed. 3, 387; Kunth, Enum. ii. 114.
CYPERUS punctorius Schrader ex Boeck. [family CYPERACEAE], in Linnæa, xxxv. 567.
Information
glabrous, tall, leafless; rhizome horizontal, woody, 1/6 in. diam., with ovate, acute, black striations, 3/4 in. long; stem up to 2–3 ft. long; top terete or round trigonous, smooth not striate; uppermost sheath produced scarcely an in., shortly acute; bracts 8 or 10, subequal, overtopping the umbel, lanceolate (not caudate) at the tip; umbel compound; rays 8 or 10; bracteoles to the secondary umbels or corymbs inconspicuous, not 1/4 in. long; spikelets 2–7, digitate, rusty pale red, compressed, up to 1/3 by 1/10 in., 6–16-flowered; glumes imbricate, boat-shaped, subacute, irregularly ribbed; stamens 3; anthers linear, hardly crested; nut 1/2 the length of the glume, triquetrous, ellipsoid or obovoid, pyramidal at each end, brown; style much shorter than the nut; branches 3, linear, shortly exserted from glume. null
Distribution
COAST REGION Clanwilliam Div.; Ebenezer, Drège. Cape Div.; Cape Flats, Rehmann, 1775! Burke! Bolus, 4860! Salt River; Burchell, 507! 687! Tygerberg, below 1000 ft., Drège! Wynberg, Schlechter, 508! Paarl Div.; Berg River, near Paarl, Drège, 7389! Worcester Div.; near Mord Kuil, on the Doorn River, below 1000 ft.; Drège. Riversdale Div.; Kaffirkuils River, Gill! Uitenhage Div.; Ecklon and Zeyher, 170! Bathurst Div.; near Theopolis, Burchell, 4055!SOUTH AFRICA without locality, Thunberg, Thom, 890! Bergius, 171! Ecklon and Zeyher, 12! 129!
Notes
This is a colonist near Bordeaux, and has been collected in Algiers by Munby. Cultivated in Mauritius, according to Bojer.
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 textilis Thunb. [family CYPERACEAE], Prod. 18;—Fl. Cap. ed. Schult. 100; Nees in Linnæa, vii. 513; x. 135; Kunth, Enum. ii. 32; Boeck. in Linnæa, xxxv. 567.
CYPERUS Burchellii Schrad. [family CYPERACEAE], Anal. Fl. Cap. 11; Nees in Linnæa, x. 135; Kunth, Enum. ii. 33.
CYPERUS Smithii Schrad. [family CYPERACEAE], Anal. Fl. Cap. 12 in Obs.; Nees in Linnæa, x. 135; Kunth, Enum. ii. 115.
CYPERUS asperifolius Desfont. [family CYPERACEAE], Cat. Hort. Paris ed. 3, 387; Kunth, Enum. ii. 114.
CYPERUS punctorius Schrader ex Boeck. [family CYPERACEAE], in Linnæa, xxxv. 567.
Information
glabrous, tall, leafless; rhizome horizontal, woody, 1/6 in. diam., with ovate, acute, black striations, 3/4 in. long; stem up to 2–3 ft. long; top terete or round trigonous, smooth not striate; uppermost sheath produced scarcely an in., shortly acute; bracts 8 or 10, subequal, overtopping the umbel, lanceolate (not caudate) at the tip; umbel compound; rays 8 or 10; bracteoles to the secondary umbels or corymbs inconspicuous, not 1/4 in. long; spikelets 2–7, digitate, rusty pale red, compressed, up to 1/3 by 1/10 in., 6–16-flowered; glumes imbricate, boat-shaped, subacute, irregularly ribbed; stamens 3; anthers linear, hardly crested; nut 1/2 the length of the glume, triquetrous, ellipsoid or obovoid, pyramidal at each end, brown; style much shorter than the nut; branches 3, linear, shortly exserted from glume. null
Distribution
COAST REGION Clanwilliam Div.; Ebenezer, Drège. Cape Div.; Cape Flats, Rehmann, 1775! Burke! Bolus, 4860! Salt River; Burchell, 507! 687! Tygerberg, below 1000 ft., Drège! Wynberg, Schlechter, 508! Paarl Div.; Berg River, near Paarl, Drège, 7389! Worcester Div.; near Mord Kuil, on the Doorn River, below 1000 ft.; Drège. Riversdale Div.; Kaffirkuils River, Gill! Uitenhage Div.; Ecklon and Zeyher, 170! Bathurst Div.; near Theopolis, Burchell, 4055!SOUTH AFRICA without locality, Thunberg, Thom, 890! Bergius, 171! Ecklon and Zeyher, 12! 129!
Notes
This is a colonist near Bordeaux, and has been collected in Algiers by Munby. Cultivated in Mauritius, according to Bojer.
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 textilis Thunb. [family CYPERACEAE], Prod. 18;—Fl. Cap. ed. Schult. 100; Nees in Linnæa, vii. 513; x. 135; Kunth, Enum. ii. 32; Boeck. in Linnæa, xxxv. 567.
CYPERUS Burchellii Schrad. [family CYPERACEAE], Anal. Fl. Cap. 11; Nees in Linnæa, x. 135; Kunth, Enum. ii. 33.
CYPERUS Smithii Schrad. [family CYPERACEAE], Anal. Fl. Cap. 12 in Obs.; Nees in Linnæa, x. 135; Kunth, Enum. ii. 115.
CYPERUS asperifolius Desfont. [family CYPERACEAE], Cat. Hort. Paris ed. 3, 387; Kunth, Enum. ii. 114.
CYPERUS punctorius Schrader ex Boeck. [family CYPERACEAE], in Linnæa, xxxv. 567.
Information
glabrous, tall, leafless; rhizome horizontal, woody, 1/6 in. diam., with ovate, acute, black striations, 3/4 in. long; stem up to 2–3 ft. long; top terete or round trigonous, smooth not striate; uppermost sheath produced scarcely an in., shortly acute; bracts 8 or 10, subequal, overtopping the umbel, lanceolate (not caudate) at the tip; umbel compound; rays 8 or 10; bracteoles to the secondary umbels or corymbs inconspicuous, not 1/4 in. long; spikelets 2–7, digitate, rusty pale red, compressed, up to 1/3 by 1/10 in., 6–16-flowered; glumes imbricate, boat-shaped, subacute, irregularly ribbed; stamens 3; anthers linear, hardly crested; nut 1/2 the length of the glume, triquetrous, ellipsoid or obovoid, pyramidal at each end, brown; style much shorter than the nut; branches 3, linear, shortly exserted from glume. null
Distribution
COAST REGION Clanwilliam Div.; Ebenezer, Drège. Cape Div.; Cape Flats, Rehmann, 1775! Burke! Bolus, 4860! Salt River; Burchell, 507! 687! Tygerberg, below 1000 ft., Drège! Wynberg, Schlechter, 508! Paarl Div.; Berg River, near Paarl, Drège, 7389! Worcester Div.; near Mord Kuil, on the Doorn River, below 1000 ft.; Drège. Riversdale Div.; Kaffirkuils River, Gill! Uitenhage Div.; Ecklon and Zeyher, 170! Bathurst Div.; near Theopolis, Burchell, 4055!SOUTH AFRICA without locality, Thunberg, Thom, 890! Bergius, 171! Ecklon and Zeyher, 12! 129!
Notes
This is a colonist near Bordeaux, and has been collected in Algiers by Munby. Cultivated in Mauritius, according to Bojer.
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