PLANTAE / PHANEROGAMAE / ANTHOPHYTA / POALES / CYPERACEAE / CYPEROIDEAE / SCLERIEAE / SCLERIA / GREIGIIFOLIA
Perennial. Rhizome elongate or contracted, 6-10 mm thick; scales brown or reddish-brown. Culms: 1-2 m tall, glabrous. Leaves mostly crowded towards base of culm, 5-12 mm broad, tapering smoothly towards apex or, rarely, unequally laterally praemorse; glabrescent or hispidulous; sheaths with concave mouths, the margins minutely ciliate. Inflorescence with lax, copious terminal panicle c. 150 mm long and smaller lateral panicles 4-7 per node at 2-3 nodes exserted up to 200 mm from sheaths. Bracts foliaceous. Male spikelets sessile - shortly pedicillate, c. 5 mm long; glumes reddish-black proximally, castaneous distally; midrib hispidulous, margins setulose-ciliate. Female glumes similarly coloured, shortly awned, midrib and awn hispidulous, margins setulose-ciliate and distal half of adaxial surface with dense indumentum of stiff, upward-pointing hairs. Achene broadly ovoid, laterally compressed, strongly beaked, 6 x 3.5 mm; glabrous, smooth, pale brown or pinkish-brown sometimes with violet blotches; hypogynium zoniform, brown. From: Hennessy, EF. 1985. The genus Scleria in southern Africa. Bothalia 15(3 & 4): 505-530. [CC BY]
Perennial herb, 1.15-2.15 m high, tufted or long-rhizomatous. Leaves mostly crowded towards base of culm; sheaths with concave mouths, margins minutely ciliate; blades 5-12 mm wide, tapering smoothly towards apex (rarely unequally laterally praemorse), glabrescent or hispidulous. Culm nodose, glabrous. Inflorescence with lax, copious, terminal panicle ± 150 mm long and smaller lateral panicles 4-7 per node. Subtending bracts foliaceous. Male spikelets sessile to shortly pedicellate, ± 5 mm long, glumes reddish black proximally, castaneous distally, midrib hispidulous, margins setulose-ciliate. Female glumes similarly coloured, shortly awned, hispidulous, margins setulose-ciliate, upper surface distally with dense, upward-pointing hairs. Flowering time Apr. Nutlet broadly ovate, strongly beaked, 6 mm long, laterally compressed, shining, pale or pinkish brown. Hypogynium unlobed, brown. 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]
Perennial, stout, aquatic with evergreen aerial parts. This species is distinguished from S. melanomphala by its leaves crowded towards the base of the culm, by its lax, copiously branched panicles, by its adaxially densely-hirsute female glumes and by its strongly-beaked achene which lacks a black apex. From: Hennessy, EF. 1985. The genus Scleria in southern Africa. Bothalia 15(3 & 4): 505-530. [CC BY]
Occurring in open permanent bogs or shallow lakes. From: Hennessy, EF. 1985. The genus Scleria in southern Africa. Bothalia 15(3 & 4): 505-530. [CC BY]
Margins of swamp forests, lakes or watercourses near coast, in full sun. Indian Ocean Coastal Belt, Indigenous Forests. 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]
Known for the FSA area from southern Natal coastbelt and from Eastern Shore, Lake St Lucia in northern Natal. Also in tropical Africa and Madagascar. From: Hennessy, EF. 1985. The genus Scleria in southern Africa. Bothalia 15(3 & 4): 505-530. [CC BY]
0 to 500 m
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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
Acriulus greigiifolius Ridl.
Scleria friesii Kuk.
Classification
KINGDOM Plantae
SUBKINGDOM Phanerogamae
PHYLUM Anthophyta
ORDER Poales
FAMILY Cyperaceae
SUBFAMILY Cyperoideae
TRIBE Sclerieae
GENUS Scleria
SPECIES greigiifolia
9 results for Scleria greigiifolia (Ridl.) C.B.Clarke
Barcode: NH0056461-0 Collector(s) & number: Strey, RG, 7251 | 1967-1-1
South Africa, KwaZulu-Natal, Port Shepstone District. Beacon Hill East.
General notes: Riverbed. Bog. Triangular stem. 2-3ft.
Data Resource: BODATSA View record
Barcode: NH0040466-0 Collector(s) & number: Huntley, KD, 781 | 1951-1-
South Africa, KwaZulu-Natal, Port Edward.
Data Resource: BODATSA View record
Barcode: PRE0481202-0 Collector(s) & number: Nicholson, HB, 1598 | 1976-10-7
South Africa, KwaZulu-Natal, UMTAMVUNA RIVER RESERVE; BRAEMAR FARM.
Data Resource: BODATSA View record
Barcode: PRE0582850-0 Collector(s) & number: Abbott, ATD, 7805 | 2001-1-18
South Africa, KwaZulu-Natal, Umtamvuna Nature Reserve; "Raspalia" stream.
General notes: In marshy ground in wet grassland. Mzikaba. Robust sedge, with red stalked inflorescence, growing singly in colonies.
Data Resource: BODATSA View record
Barcode: PRE0582848-0 Collector(s) & number: Abbott, ATD, 7798 | 2000-11-25
South Africa, KwaZulu-Natal, Umtamvuna Nature Reserve; Raspalia stream.
General notes: Slopes above stream. In wet grassland. Mzikaba. Sedge. Robust single plants.
Data Resource: BODATSA View record
Barcode: PRE0106404-0 Collector(s) & number: Stewart, PG, 293 | 1964-10-6
South Africa, KwaZulu-Natal, LOWER UMFOLOZI DIST.; LAKE ST. LUCIA E. SHORE; CATALINA JETTY STREAM.
Data Resource: BODATSA View record
Barcode: PRE0893618-0 Collector(s) & number: de Wett, L, 112 | 2002-4-1
South Africa, Eastern Cape, Pondoland. Near Msikaba Gorge. Ntentula area, north west of school. Vlei area, tributary of the Mateku River. Releve 70.
Data Resource: BODATSA View record
Barcode: PRE0108486-0 Collector(s) & number: Strey, RG, 7251 | 1967-1-1
South Africa, KwaZulu-Natal, Port Shepstone Dist.; Beacon Hill East.
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
2010
1985
No results found for Scleria greigiifolia (Ridl.) C.B.Clarke
Status and criteria
NE
Assessor(s)
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