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Cyperaceae - Cyperoideae - Cypereae - Lipocarpha R.Br.

Description:

Annuals or perennials, tufted, small or moderately robust
Culms erect, terete, glabrous, with basal nodes
Leaves basal, eligulate, glabrous; sheath short, with adaxial apex truncate; blade with or without keeled midrib, profile V-shaped or crescentiform
Inflorescence capitate, of 1-20 sessile spikes; subtending bracts 2-few, erect or spreading
Spikes ovoid, axes elongated; spikelet bracts many, spirally arranged, lowermost and uppermost frequently empty
Spikelets comprising an adaxial prophyll, with frequently 2 minute hyaline scales and a 1-flowered floret subtended by a glume; florets mostly bisexual, fertile, uppermost male or absent
Perianth 0
Stamens 1-3
Style linear or 0, branches 2 or 3, short, not dilated at base, deciduous
Nutlet narrowly oblong to broadly obovate to circular to 3-angled, papillate
x = 13 (8, 19, 23, 29) (aneuploids, polyploidy)

Nomenclature:

Lipocarpha R.Br.
- Brown: 459 (1810) name conserved
- Clarke: 265 (1898)
- Clarke: 468 (1902)
- Schonland: 53 (1922)
- Gordon-Gray: 103 (1972)
- Compton: 59 (1976)
- Forbes: 53 (1987)
- Goetghebeur & Van den Borre: 1 (1989)
- Gordon-Gray: 120 (1995)
Hemicarpha Nees
- Nees: 287 (1835)
- Podlech: 27 (1967)
Rikliella J.Raynal
- Raynal: 154 (1973)
Scirpus L. in part (Scirpus hystrix not of Thunb.)
- Clarke: 233 (1898)
- Clarke: 459 (1902)
- Podlech: 49 (1967)
Scirpus L. subgen. Chloroscirpus Cherm. (Scirpus hystrix not of Thunb.)
- Chermezon: 141 (1937)
Scirpus L. sect. Squarrosi Cherm.
- Chermezon: 141 (1937)

Distribution & Notes:

Global: Species ± 35, ± cosmopolitan in warm climates
Southern Africa: Species 6, widespread in Namibia, Botswana, Northern Province, North-West, Gauteng, Mpumalanga, Free State, Swaziland, KwaZulu-Natal and Lesotho

References:

BROWN, R. 1810. Prodromus florae Novae Hollandiae 1. J. Johnson & Co., London
CHERMEZON, H. 1937. 29e famille - Cypéracées. Flore de Madagascar 141. Gouvernement Général de Madagascar, Tananarive
CLARKE, C.B. 1898. Cyperaceae. Flora capensis 7
CLARKE, C.B. 1902. Cyperaceae. Flora of tropical Africa 8
COMPTON, R.H. 1976. Cyperaceae. Flora of Swaziland. Journal of South African Botany Suppl. Vol. 11
FORBES, P.L. 1987. Cyperaceae. In T.K. Lowrey & S. Wright, The Flora of the Witwatersrand Vol. 1: The Monocotyledonae. Witwatersrand University Press, Johannesburg
GOETGHEBEUR, P. & VAN DEN BORRE, A. 1989. Studies in Cyperaceae 8. A revision of Lipocarpha, including Hemicarpha and Rikliella. Wageningen Agricultural University Papers 89-1
GORDON-GRAY, K.D. 1972. Cyperaceae. In J.H. Ross, The Flora of Natal. Memoirs of the Botanical Survey of South Africa No. 39
GORDON-GRAY, K.D. 1995. Cyperaceae in Natal. Strelitzia 2
NEES VON ESENBECK, C.G. 1835. Uebersicht der Cyperaceengattungen. Linnaea 9
PODLECH, D. 1967. Cyperaceae. Prodromus einer Flora von Südwestafrika 165
RAYNAL, J. 1973. Notes cypérologiques . Contribution à la classification de la sous-famille des Cyperoideae. Adansonia, sér. 2, 13
SCHONLAND, S. 1922. Introduction to South African Cyperaceae. Memoirs of the Botanical Survey of South Africa No. 3

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