Cyperus marginatus
| Family: | Cyperaceae |
| Full name: | Cyperus marginatus Thunb. |
| Location: | Farm Urikos (2416AC |
| ID status: | Fairly certain |
| Afrikaans common name(s): | Matjiesgoed, Riet |
| English common name(s): | Desert sedge |
| Synonym(s): | Cyperus blandus Kunth Cyperus brunneo-vaginatus Boeckeler |
| Status: | Native |
| Description: | Glabrous, stout; rhizome horizontal, thick, woody, often several in. long, with ovate scales; stems 1–2.5 ft. long, terete at the top; leaves none; uppermost sheath produced 0.25–1 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 0.75 by 0.125 in. (usually less than 0.5 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. (from JSTOR Global Plants website / Flora Capensis) |
| Link(s) |
African Plant Database
JSTOR Plant Science Kew Herbarium Catalogue BGBM Berlin-Dahlem - Virtual Herbarium Züricher Herbarien iNaturalist (Namibia / Alex Dreyer) iNaturalist (Namibia) iNaturalist (southern Africa) Flora of Zimbabwe Fleurs de notre Terre - Galerie Namibie Tree Atlas of Namibia |
| Photographer: | AA Dreyer |
| Date of photograph: | 22 Sep 2013 |
| Camera make: | Panasonic |
| Camera model: | DMC-FZ45 |
| Lens aperture: | f/2.8 |
| Shutter speed: | 1/80 s |
| ISO speed: | 200 |
| Content last updated: | 18 Apr 2024 |
