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CYPERUS leptocladus Kunth [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 leptocladus Kunth [family CYPERACEAE], Enum. ii. 32;—Boeck. in Linnæa, xxxv. 581 partly.
Information
glabrous; rhizome woody; stems 12–20 in. long, rather slender, trigonous at the top; leaves often nearly as long as the stem, 1/5 in broad, more or less 3-nerved; umbel lax, compound, 3–8 in. in diam., irregular, sometimes proliferous; bracts about 8, somewhat overtopping the umbel, similar to the leaves; spikelets mostly solitary, pedicelled, 1/4 by 1/12 in. compressed, 8–14-flowered, greenish, ultimately dirty straw-coloured; glumes boat-shaped, obscurely 3-nerved, green on the back, keel subexcurrent in a mucro, margins broadly scarious not scabrous on the edge; stamens 3; anthers linear-oblong, hardly crested; nut 3/4 the length of the glume, ellipsoid, trigonous, brown; style 1/3 the length of the nut, branches 3 shortish. null
Distribution
EASTERN REGION Natal; Coast-land, 0–1000 ft., Sutherland! Durban, Kuntze, 227! and without precise locality, Drège, 4441! Buchanan, 318!
Notes
In Durand and Schinz, Conspect. Fl. Afr. v. 566, I have united my C. Balfourii (Journ. Linn. Soc. xx. 289) and some other Mascarene examples with C. leptocladus. The type example of C. Balfourii does not exactly match C. leptocladus, having narrower spikelets, and the other Mascarene “ C. leptocladus ” differs much more.
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 leptocladus Kunth [family CYPERACEAE], Enum. ii. 32;—Boeck. in Linnæa, xxxv. 581 partly.
Information
glabrous; rhizome woody; stems 12–20 in. long, rather slender, trigonous at the top; leaves often nearly as long as the stem, 1/5 in broad, more or less 3-nerved; umbel lax, compound, 3–8 in. in diam., irregular, sometimes proliferous; bracts about 8, somewhat overtopping the umbel, similar to the leaves; spikelets mostly solitary, pedicelled, 1/4 by 1/12 in. compressed, 8–14-flowered, greenish, ultimately dirty straw-coloured; glumes boat-shaped, obscurely 3-nerved, green on the back, keel subexcurrent in a mucro, margins broadly scarious not scabrous on the edge; stamens 3; anthers linear-oblong, hardly crested; nut 3/4 the length of the glume, ellipsoid, trigonous, brown; style 1/3 the length of the nut, branches 3 shortish. null
Distribution
EASTERN REGION Natal; Coast-land, 0–1000 ft., Sutherland! Durban, Kuntze, 227! and without precise locality, Drège, 4441! Buchanan, 318!
Notes
In Durand and Schinz, Conspect. Fl. Afr. v. 566, I have united my C. Balfourii (Journ. Linn. Soc. xx. 289) and some other Mascarene examples with C. leptocladus. The type example of C. Balfourii does not exactly match C. leptocladus, having narrower spikelets, and the other Mascarene “ C. leptocladus ” differs much more.
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 leptocladus Kunth [family CYPERACEAE], Enum. ii. 32;—Boeck. in Linnæa, xxxv. 581 partly.
Information
glabrous; rhizome woody; stems 12–20 in. long, rather slender, trigonous at the top; leaves often nearly as long as the stem, 1/5 in broad, more or less 3-nerved; umbel lax, compound, 3–8 in. in diam., irregular, sometimes proliferous; bracts about 8, somewhat overtopping the umbel, similar to the leaves; spikelets mostly solitary, pedicelled, 1/4 by 1/12 in. compressed, 8–14-flowered, greenish, ultimately dirty straw-coloured; glumes boat-shaped, obscurely 3-nerved, green on the back, keel subexcurrent in a mucro, margins broadly scarious not scabrous on the edge; stamens 3; anthers linear-oblong, hardly crested; nut 3/4 the length of the glume, ellipsoid, trigonous, brown; style 1/3 the length of the nut, branches 3 shortish. null
Distribution
EASTERN REGION Natal; Coast-land, 0–1000 ft., Sutherland! Durban, Kuntze, 227! and without precise locality, Drège, 4441! Buchanan, 318!
Notes
In Durand and Schinz, Conspect. Fl. Afr. v. 566, I have united my C. Balfourii (Journ. Linn. Soc. xx. 289) and some other Mascarene examples with C. leptocladus. The type example of C. Balfourii does not exactly match C. leptocladus, having narrower spikelets, and the other Mascarene “ C. leptocladus ” differs much more.
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