Cyperaceae taxon details
Dracoscirpoides falsa (C.B.Clarke) Muasya
1680991 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:1680991)
accepted
Species
Scirpus falsus C.B.Clarke · unaccepted
terrestrial
(of Scirpus falsus C.B.Clarke) Clarke, C. B. (1898). Cyperaceae. In: Thiselton-Dyer, W.T. (ed.), Flora capensis: being a systematic description of the plants of the Cape colony, Caffraria, & Port Natal (and neighbouring territories). Vol. VII. Pontederiaceae to Gramineae, pp. 149-310. L. Reeve & Co., Covent Garden; Williams & Norgate, Covent Garden, London., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/30235904#page/157/mode/1up
page(s): 230 [details]
page(s): 230 [details]
Description Slender, tufted perennial with a short rhizome. Culms 80–320 mm × 0.5–0.9 mm, wiry, terete at the base but becoming...
Taxonomic remark Source in seed data: ipni Update namepublishedIn from S. African J. Bot. 78: 109. 2012 [Jan 2012] to S. African J. Bot....
Description Slender, tufted perennial with a short rhizome. Culms 80–320 mm × 0.5–0.9 mm, wiry, terete at the base but becoming triangular towards the inflorescence, scabrid along the angles. Leaves: sheath 15–55 mm long, usually dark brown and old sheaths persistent, rarely papery and pale, rim smooth; blade 90–350 mm × 0.6–1.0 mm, filiform, scabrid along the margins. Inflorescence pseudolateral, congested into one or rarely two heads, 2–12 mm wide; bracts 2–4, usually with the base the same dark colour as the glumes with a hyaline margin; main bract erect, 20–117 mm × 0.4–0.7 mm; other bracts erect to spreading. Spikelets 4–14, 5.0–8.0 mm × 2.0–4.0 mm, pale brown to black; glumes 3.5–5.5 mm long, elliptic to lanceolate, pale brown to black with many pale nerves, margins usually hyaline, midrib often scabrid in the lower part, excurrent as a usually dark-coloured, smooth mucro 0.3–1.0 mm long. Perianth bristles 6(7), densely antrorsely scabrid. Anthers 1.9–3.1 mm long. Nutlets 2.2–3.5 mm × 1.0–1.3 mm, triangular, elliptic, surface smooth or scabrid towards apex. [details]
Taxonomic remark Source in seed data: ipni Update namepublishedIn from S. African J. Bot. 78: 109. 2012 [Jan 2012] to S. African J. Bot....
Taxonomic remark Source in seed data: ipni Update namepublishedIn from S. African J. Bot. 78: 109. 2012 [Jan 2012] to S. African J. Bot. 78: 109 (2012), information provided by Alan E. on email Jun. 07 2021 [details]
Cyperaceae Working Group. (2025). [see How to cite]. Global Cyperaceae Database. Dracoscirpoides falsa (C.B.Clarke) Muasya. Accessed at: https://cyperaceae.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1680991 on 2026-01-15
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Nomenclature
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(of Scirpus falsus C.B.Clarke) Clarke, C. B. (1898). Cyperaceae. In: Thiselton-Dyer, W.T. (ed.), Flora capensis: being a systematic description of the plants of the Cape colony, Caffraria, & Port Natal (and neighbouring territories). Vol. VII. Pontederiaceae to Gramineae, pp. 149-310. L. Reeve & Co., Covent Garden; Williams & Norgate, Covent Garden, London., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/30235904#page/157/mode/1up
page(s): 230 [details]
basis of record Plants of the World Online (POWO). , available online at https://powo.science.kew.org/ [details]
new combination reference Muasya, A. M.; Reynders, M.; Goetghebeur, P.; Simpson, D. A.; Vrijdaghs, A. (2012). Dracoscirpoides (Cyperaceae) - A new genus from Southern Africa, its taxonomy and floral ontogeny. South African Journal of Botany, 78: 104-115., available online at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sajb.2011.05.011
page(s): 109 [details]
page(s): 230 [details]
basis of record Plants of the World Online (POWO). , available online at https://powo.science.kew.org/ [details]
new combination reference Muasya, A. M.; Reynders, M.; Goetghebeur, P.; Simpson, D. A.; Vrijdaghs, A. (2012). Dracoscirpoides (Cyperaceae) - A new genus from Southern Africa, its taxonomy and floral ontogeny. South African Journal of Botany, 78: 104-115., available online at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sajb.2011.05.011
page(s): 109 [details]
Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
Syntype (of Scirpus falsus C.B.Clarke) PRE 0107590-0, geounit Lesotho [details]
From editor or global species database
Description Slender, tufted perennial with a short rhizome. Culms 80–320 mm × 0.5–0.9 mm, wiry, terete at the base but becoming triangular towards the inflorescence, scabrid along the angles. Leaves: sheath 15–55 mm long, usually dark brown and old sheaths persistent, rarely papery and pale, rim smooth; blade 90–350 mm × 0.6–1.0 mm, filiform, scabrid along the margins. Inflorescence pseudolateral, congested into one or rarely two heads, 2–12 mm wide; bracts 2–4, usually with the base the same dark colour as the glumes with a hyaline margin; main bract erect, 20–117 mm × 0.4–0.7 mm; other bracts erect to spreading. Spikelets 4–14, 5.0–8.0 mm × 2.0–4.0 mm, pale brown to black; glumes 3.5–5.5 mm long, elliptic to lanceolate, pale brown to black with many pale nerves, margins usually hyaline, midrib often scabrid in the lower part, excurrent as a usually dark-coloured, smooth mucro 0.3–1.0 mm long. Perianth bristles 6(7), densely antrorsely scabrid. Anthers 1.9–3.1 mm long. Nutlets 2.2–3.5 mm × 1.0–1.3 mm, triangular, elliptic, surface smooth or scabrid towards apex. [details]Taxonomic remark Source in seed data: ipni Update namepublishedIn from S. African J. Bot. 78: 109. 2012 [Jan 2012] to S. African J. Bot. 78: 109 (2012), information provided by Alan E. on email Jun. 07 2021 [details]
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (7 publications) (from synonym Scirpus falsus C.B.Clarke)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Dracoscirpoides falsa)
To GenBank (38 nucleotides; 2 proteins) (from synonym Scirpus falsus C.B.Clarke)
To GenBank (38 nucleotides; 2 proteins)
To International Plant Names Index (IPNI) (from synonym Scirpus falsus C.B.Clarke)
To International Plant Names Index (IPNI)
To Plants of the World Online
To Plants of the World Online (from synonym Scirpus falsus C.B.Clarke)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Dracoscirpoides falsa)
To GenBank (38 nucleotides; 2 proteins) (from synonym Scirpus falsus C.B.Clarke)
To GenBank (38 nucleotides; 2 proteins)
To International Plant Names Index (IPNI) (from synonym Scirpus falsus C.B.Clarke)
To International Plant Names Index (IPNI)
To Plants of the World Online
To Plants of the World Online (from synonym Scirpus falsus C.B.Clarke)
