PLANTAE / PHANEROGAMAE / ANTHOPHYTA / POALES / CYPERACEAE / CYPEROIDEAE / SCHOENEAE / SCHOENUS / ARENICOLA
Perennial herb, tufted, up to 0.6 m high. Leaves: sheaths entire, ± smooth, shining, brownish red; blades ± 0.8 mm wide, shallowly C-shaped. Culm scapose, rigid, terete, ± 1.2 mm in diam. Inflorescence a reduced, compact panicle of 3-6 groups of erect spikelets at culm apex, each group of 1 sessile and 1 shortly stalked spikelet per branch. Subtending bracts blades leaf-like, longer than spikelets. Spikelets flattened, lanceolate, ± 10 mm long, with glumes ± 2-ranked. Glumes: fertile lanceolate, ± 6 mm long, keel non-excurrent or excurrent into minute point. Perianth of 5 or 6 short, linear bristles. Flowering time Aug. Nutlet elliptic, excluding style base ± 3 mm long, obscurely 3-angled, light brown, crowned by large, dark, conical, glabrous style base, surface with angles thickened, otherwise minutely trabeculate. From: Archer, C. 2019. Cyperaceae. In: CL Bredenkamp (ed.), A Flora of the Eastern Cape Province. Strelitzia 41(3): 1691-1764. South African National Biodiversity Institute, Pretoria. [CC BY] As: Tetraria brachyphylla Levyns
Densely tufted perennial to 60 cm. Spikelets reddish. From: Archer, C; Muasya, M. 2012. Cyperaceae. In: J Manning & P Goldblatt (eds), Plants of the Greater Cape Floristic Region 1: The Core Cape flora. Strelitzia 29: 84-96. South African National Biodiversity Institute, Pretoria. [CC BY] As: Tetraria brachyphylla Levyns
Coastal dunes. Albany Thicket. From: Archer, C. 2019. Cyperaceae. In: CL Bredenkamp (ed.), A Flora of the Eastern Cape Province. Strelitzia 41(3): 1691-1764. South African National Biodiversity Institute, Pretoria. [CC BY] As: Tetraria brachyphylla Levyns
Sandy coastal dunes and lower slopes below 200 m. From: Archer, C; Muasya, M. 2012. Cyperaceae. In: J Manning & P Goldblatt (eds), Plants of the Greater Cape Floristic Region 1: The Core Cape flora. Strelitzia 29: 84-96. South African National Biodiversity Institute, Pretoria. [CC BY] As: Tetraria brachyphylla Levyns
Cape Peninsula to Plettenberg Bay. From: Archer, C; Muasya, M. 2012. Cyperaceae. In: J Manning & P Goldblatt (eds), Plants of the Greater Cape Floristic Region 1: The Core Cape flora. Strelitzia 29: 84-96. South African National Biodiversity Institute, Pretoria. [CC BY] As: Tetraria brachyphylla Levyns
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Occurrence in the Flora of Southern Africa (FSA) countries and South African provinces. Residence status indicates if a taxon is indigenous, endemic, naturalised or invasive in a specific region. This data is based on specimen records and literature
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Names and Sources
Published in: S. African J. Bot. 112: 359 (2017)
Nomenclature note: as 'arenicolus' , nom.nov. pro Tetraria brachyphylla Levyns (1947), non Schoenus brachyphyllus J.M.Black (1929)
Type: South Africa, Western Cape Province, slopes of Kapitein's Peak, Hout Bay, 20 Oct 1946, Levyns 8093 (BOL139415, holo.; BOL139413, BOL139414, K, PRE, SAM, iso.)
Tetraria brachyphylla Levyns
Published in: J. S. African Bot. 13: 90 (1947)
Tetraria sylvatica (Nees) C.B.Clarke var. pseudocuspidata Kuk.
Published in: Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni. Veg. 29: 188 (1931)
Type: South Africa, Western Cape Province, ‘in collibus pone Rhenosterkopp’, 28 Apr 1897, Schlechter 10,570 (PRE, lecto.; BM, GRA, K, S, P00461872, P00461873, P00461874, WAG0389326, WAG0108275, L, isolecto.) Lectotype designated by Elliott & Muasya, South African Journal of Botany 114: 308 (2018).
Classification
KINGDOM Plantae
SUBKINGDOM Phanerogamae
PHYLUM Anthophyta
ORDER Poales
FAMILY Cyperaceae
SUBFAMILY Cyperoideae
TRIBE Schoeneae
GENUS Schoenus
SPECIES arenicola
35 results for Schoenus arenicola T.L.Elliott & Muasya
Year
Barcode: PRE0997848-0 Collector(s) & number: Verboom, GA, 523 | 2002-4-6
South Africa, Western Cape, Cederberg, near Sneeuberg hut.
General notes: Voucher: DNA, pickle.
Data Resource: BODATSA View record
Barcode: NBG0181110-0 Collector(s) & number: Durand, BJ, 367 | 1978-2-15
South Africa, Western Cape, Simonstown. Kogelberg State Forest - base of Spinnekopnes Gorge.
General notes: TMS steep mountainside. ± 40cm tall. Flowering - dry leaves curly, leaf bases dark brown and shiny.
Data Resource: BODATSA View record
Barcode: NBG0202697-0 Collector(s) & number: Helme, NA, 3475 | 2005-5-11
South Africa, Western Cape, Hermanus. 3 km SE of Gansbaai, Suikerbosrand.
Data Resource: BODATSA View record
Barcode: PRE0530722-0 Collector(s) & number: Viljoen, AJ, 105 | 1975-4-
South Africa, Western Cape, PLETTENBERGBAAAI; ROBBERG.
Data Resource: BODATSA View record
Barcode: NBG0253387-0 Collector(s) & number: Taylor, HC, 6937 | 1966-10-8
South Africa, Western Cape, Cape. Simonstown. Garslandskloof. Cape of Good Hope Nature Reserve.
General notes: Moist flats.
Data Resource: BODATSA View record
Barcode: GHPG$0001389-0 Collector(s) & number: Joubert, CE, 435 | 2001-3-4
South Africa, Western Cape, Hangklip subregion, Blesberg, lower slopes, along vehicle track.
Data Resource: BODATSA View record
Barcode: NBG0197509-0 Collector(s) & number: Helme, NA, 2668 | 2003-4-28
South Africa, Western Cape, Bredasdorp. Struisbaai, 2 km NW of Molshoop.
General notes: Fynbos biome. Valley. Well-drained, sandy soil. Full sun. Gentle slope. NE aspect. No biotic effect seen. Graminoid. Culms to 0.8 m. Nuts light brown. Flowers absent. Fruit present. Plant height 0.8 m. Fairly common on neutral sands of stabilized dunes, amongst Dune Thicket/Fynbos Mosaic.
Data Resource: BODATSA View record
Barcode: PRE0102808-0 Collector(s) & number: Boucher, C, 1743 | 1971-11-17
South Africa, Western Cape, Pringle Bay; Buffelsrivier mouth.
Data Resource: BODATSA View record
Barcode: PRE0099911-0 Collector(s) & number: Levyns, MRB, 8093 | 1946-10-20
South Africa, Western Cape, WYNBERG DIST.; HOUT BAY; KAPITEIN'S PEAK.
General notes: Flowering during winter months, fruiting from October to January. ISOTYPE.
Data Resource: BODATSA View record
Barcode: PRE0618117-0 Collector(s) & number: Esterhuysen, EE, 29609 | 1962-8-5
South Africa, Western Cape, CAPE PENINSULA; KARBONKELBERG; SUTHERLAND PEAK.
General notes: In clumps. Altitude: 500-100 ft.
Data Resource: BODATSA View record
Barcode: PRE0103834-0 Collector(s) & number: Taylor, HC, 6620 | 1965-12-7
South Africa, Western Cape, SIMONSTOWN DIST.; CAPE POINT; THE MEADOWS.
General notes: T. cuspidata group, flrs (?) larger, lt. brown, stouter.
Data Resource: BODATSA View record
Barcode: SAM0051828-0 Collector(s) & number: Levyns, MRB, 8093 | 1946-10-
South Africa, Western Cape, Cape Pens,Hout Bay slopes of kapitems Peak
General notes: slopes
Data Resource: BODATSA View record
Barcode: PRE0594836-0 Collector(s) & number: Joubert, CE, 435 | 2001-3-4
South Africa, Western Cape, Hangklip Subregion: Blesberg.
Data Resource: BODATSA View record
Barcode: PRE0477696-0 Collector(s) & number: van der Merwe, CV, 1947 | --
South Africa, Western Cape, [Without locality.]
Data Resource: BODATSA View record
Barcode: PRE0559516-0 Collector(s) & number: Thompson, MF, 3962 | 1979-3-12
South Africa, Western Cape, BUFFELJAGSBERG; BUFFELJACHT FARM.
General notes: Hillocks.
Data Resource: BODATSA View record
Barcode: PRE0623144-0 Collector(s) & number: Burgers, CJ, 1076 | 1978-9-7
South Africa, Western Cape, De Hoop; Potberg Nature Reserve; Potberg Farm, 2 km from coast along track to coast.
Data Resource: BODATSA View record
Barcode: PRE0102921-0 Collector(s) & number: Fries, TCE, 160 | 1930-8-26
South Africa, Eastern Cape, PORT ELIZABETH; NEAR TOWN.
Data Resource: BODATSA View record
Barcode: PRE0102911-0 Collector(s) & number: van der Merwe, CV, 1176 | 1969-10-
South Africa, Western Cape, DE HOOP; KOPPIES.
Data Resource: BODATSA View record
Barcode: PRE0102956-0 Collector(s) & number: Curator Pretoria Bot. Garden, 163 | --
South Africa, Western Cape, GOUKAMMA NATURE RESERVE.
Data Resource: BODATSA View record
Barcode: PRE0606533-0 Collector(s) & number: Boucher, C, 4505 | 1979-8-30
South Africa, Western Cape, Stikland; Cape Flats; Near power station.
General notes: Dunes. Releve 735.
Data Resource: BODATSA View record
Barcode: PRE0607571-0 Collector(s) & number: Low, AB, 740 | 1978-10-27
South Africa, Western Cape, BELLVILLE; CAPE FLATS NATURE RESERVE. UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN CAPE.
Data Resource: BODATSA View record
Barcode: PRE0618116-0 Collector(s) & number: Esterhuysen, EE, 25009 | 1955-10-25
South Africa, Western Cape, Knysna Dist.; Plettenberg Bay; Robberg.
Data Resource: BODATSA View record
Barcode: PRE0102822-0 Collector(s) & number: Schlechter, FRR, 10570 | 1897-4-28
South Africa, Western Cape, Bredasdorp Dist.; Pone Rhenosterkop.
General notes: ISOSYNTYPE of T. sylvatica var. pseudocuspidata Kuk. = T. brachyphylla
Data Resource: BODATSA View record
Barcode: PRE0734584-0 Collector(s) & number: Jacobsen, NHG, 6158 | 2003-5-19
South Africa, Western Cape, Plettenberg Bay - Farm Brakkloof 443 (Robberg).
General notes: Low and Rebelo veg. type 4 Dune Thicket. Well-drained to moist/damp. Moderate slope. Aspect: W and SW. Gregarious. Height: 60-70 cm. Uncommon, growing in open area amongst shrubs on west facing aspect of hind dune.
Data Resource: BODATSA View record
Barcode: PRE0738460-0 Collector(s) & number: Taylor, HC, 8180 | 1972-9-7
South Africa, Western Cape, Cape of Good Hope Nature Reserve; Beyond Gifkommetjie turn-off.
Data Resource: BODATSA View record
This map contains point-based occurrences at different locations
2019
SERIES CHAPTER
Cyperaceae Archer, CIn: CL Bredenkamp (ed.), A Flora of the Eastern Cape Province. Strelitzia 41(3)1691-1764
South African National Biodiversity Institute, Pretoria
2018
PERIODICAL/JOURNAL
A taxonomic revision of Schoenus compar - Schoenus pictus and allies (Cyperaceae, tribe Schoeneae) with three new species described from South Africa Elliott, TL; Muasya, AMSouth African Journal of Botany 114: 303-315
2017
PERIODICAL/JOURNAL
Taxonomic realignment in the southern African Tetraria (Cyperaceae, tribe Schoeneae; Schoenus clade) Elliott, TL; Muasya, AMSouth African Journal of Botany 112: 354-360
2012
SERIES CHAPTER
Cyperaceae Archer, C; Muasya, MIn: J Manning & P Goldblatt (eds), Plants of the Greater Cape Floristic Region 1: The Core Cape flora. Strelitzia 29: 84-96
South African National Biodiversity Institute, Pretoria
1950
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