Newsletter of the Southern African Botanical Diversity - SANBI

Cyperus sphaerospermus
Del. Marietjie Steyn
C. chrysanthus Boeck. = Pycreus chrysanthus
C. chrysanthus Boeck. var. occidentalis Kük. = Pycreus
chrysanthus
C. compressus L.
C. congestus Vahl C
(= C. congestus Vahl var. grandiceps Kük.)
(= C. congestus Vahl var. pseudonatalensis Kük.)
(= Mariscus congestus (Vahl) C.B.Clarke)
(= Mariscus congestus (Vahl) C.B.Clarke var. grandiceps
(Kük.) Podlech)
(= Mariscus congestus (Vahl) C.B.Clarke var. pseudonatalensis
(Kük.) Podlech)
C. congestus Vahl var. grandiceps Kük. = C. congestus
C. congestus Vahl var. pseudonatalensis Kük. = C. congestus
C. corymbosus in sense of Podlech (1967), not of Rottb.
[syn. C. corymbosus var. damarensis Kük.] : uncertain
species; Peter 47028, Walter 128 should be
checked
C. corymbosus Rottb. var. damarensis Kük. [syn. of C.
corymbosus in sense of Podlech (1967)] : uncertain
taxon; Peter 47028, Walter 128 should be checked
C. cristatus (Kunth) Mattf. & Kük. = Kyllinga alba
C. cuspidatus Kunth
(= C. uncinatus in sense of C.B.Clarke, not of Poir.)
C. cyperoides (L.) Kuntze subsp. cyperoides [syn. Mariscus
sieberianus] : doubtfully occurring in Namibia;
De Winter & Wiss 4365 (PRE!) was identified by
Vorster as Mariscus breviradius but the name was
never published
C. cyperoides (L.) Kuntze subsp. flavus Lye
(= Mariscus cylindristachyus Steud.)
(= Mariscus umbellatus in sense Podlech (1967), not of
(Rottb.) Vahl)
C. deciduus Boeck. : De Winter & Marais 5047 (PRE!)
(= Mariscus deciduus (Boeck.) C.B.Clarke)
C. denudatus L.f. var. denudatus
(= C. platycaulis in sense of authors, not of Baker)
C. denudatus L.f. var. lucenti-nigricans (K.Schum.) Kük.
[syn. C. platycaulis Baker] : does not occur in Namibia;
see C. denudatus var. denudatus
C. difformis L.
(= C. difformis var. subdecompositus Kük.)
C. difformis var. subdecompositus Kük. = C. difformis
C. digitatus Roxb. subsp. auricomus (Spreng.) Kük. U
(= C. auricomus Sieber ex Spreng.)
C. dives Delile : Schlettwein 23 (PRE!)
(= C. immensus C.B.Clarke)
C. dubius Rottb.
(= Mariscus dubius (Rottb.) C.E.C.Fischer)
C. erectus (Schumach.) Mattf. & Kük. var. intricatus
(Cherm.) Kük. = Kyllinga erecta var. erecta
C. esculentus L. var. esculentus C, U
(= C. aureus Ten.)
C. fastigiatus Rottb. : does not occur in Namibia; Clarke
& Mannheimer (1999a) cited Barnard 112 (SAM)
which should be checked
C. flavescens L. = Pycreus flavescens
C. foliaceus C.B.Clarke : does not occur in Namibia; Dinter
7599 (PRE!), Giess, Volk & Bleissner 6474 (PRE!)
cited by Clarke & Mannheimer (1999a, 1999b) are
both C. tenuispica
C. fulgens C.B.Clarke var. contractus Kük. : Podlech (1967)
included in C. fulgens but is a separate taxon
C. fulgens C.B.Clarke var. fulgens C, U
C. globosus in sense of Podlech (1967), not of All. = Pycreus
betschuanus
C. hamulosus M.Bieb.
(= Mariscus hamulosus (M.Bieb.) S.S.Hooper)
(= Scirpus lugardii C.B.Clarke)
C. haspan L. : does not occur in Namibia; specimens cited
by Podlech (1967) are C. denudatus var. denudatus
and C. sphaerospermus
C. holostigma Schweinf. = C. schinzii
C. imbricatus Retz. C, U
C. immensus C.B.Clarke = C. dives
C. indecorus Kunth var. decurvatus (C.B.Clarke) Kük.
(= C. indecorus Kunth var. dinteri Kük.)
(= Mariscus albomarginatus in sense of Podlech (1967), not of
C.B.Clarke)
(= Mariscus indecorus (Kunth) Podlech var. dinteri (Kük.)
Podlech)
(= Mariscus rehmannianus C.B.Clarke)
C. indecorus Kunth var. dinteri Kük. = C. indecorus var.
decurvatus
20 SABONET News Vol. 9 No. 1 September 2004