Scirpus subcapitatus
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Description
Perennial;
Inflorescence terminal, consisting of 1-5 spikelets, when 1-spiculate often ebracteate, otherwise the first spikelet sessile, the others on short smooth peduncles, and with an involucral bract sheathing the stem, 5-10 mm long, with a smooth or scabrid, up to 4 mm long mucro.
Stamens 3;
Distribution
Annam present, Asia-Tropical: India present; Malaya (Peninsular Malaysia present); New Guinea present; Sulawesi (Sulawesi present); Thailand (Thailand present), Ceylon present, Luzon present, Mt Albert Edward present, Mt Kinabalu present, Mt Knutsford present, Mt Tahan present, Mt Wilhelm present, N. Borneo present, N. and Central Sumatra present, Owen Stanley Range present, Padang present, Pahang present, Papua present, S. China present, Southern America: Argentina Northeast (Formosa present), Sugarloaf complex present, Trengganu present
India, Thailand, Ceylon, Annam, S. China, Formosa, in Malesia: N. and Central Sumatra, Malay Peninsula (Trengganu: Padang; Pahang: Mt Tahan), N. Borneo (Mt Kinabalu), New Guinea (Papua: Mt Albert Edward, Owen Stanley Range, Mt Wilhelm, Mt Knutsford; Sugarloaf complex: HOOGLAND & SCHODDE 7108); two subspecies in Luzon and Celebes.
Notes
I fail to trace dividing lines between S. subcapitatus s. str., S. clarkei (said to differ by the very slender habit, the more advanced development of the lamina of the leaves, the solitary spikelets, and the more distinctly barbellate perianth-bristles), and S. pakapakensis (differing from S. subcapitatus by the loose inflorescence and the more distinctly barbellate bristles).
More distinct geographical races are: subsp. pulogensis (MERR.) KERN and subsp. celebicus KERN.
More distinct geographical races are: subsp. pulogensis (MERR.) KERN and subsp. celebicus KERN.
Citation
RAYMOND. 1957 – In: Nat. Canad.: 142
BOECK. 1870 – In: Linnaea: 704
KERN 1956 – In: Reinwardtia: 89
BEETLE 1946 – In: Am. J. Bot.: 665
STAPF 1914 – In: Gibbs, J. Linn. Soc. Bot. 42: 174
STAPF 1915 – In: J. Fed. Mal. St. Mus.: 192
BEETLE 1946 – In: Am. J. Bot.: 664
Ridl. 1906 – In: J. Str. Br. R. As. Soc.: 224
S. T. BLAKE 1954 – In: J. Arn. Arb.: 206
THWAITES 1944 – In: Fedde, Rep. 53: 101
KUK. 1940 – In: Bull. Jard. Bot. Btzg: 301
Clarke 1893 – In: Fl. Br. Ind.: 661
THWAITES 1909: Ill. Cyp.: f. 1-2