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Bulbostylis schimperiana

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Identification
Bulbostylis schimperiana Not on sheet. [family CYPERACEAE ] Verified by Arnstein Lye, K., Bulbostylis leiolepis (Kük.) R.W.Haines [family CYPERACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on sheet.,
Related name
  • Isolepis schimperiana
  • Bulbostylis leiolepis
  • Abildgaardia leiolepis
  • Bulbostylis subumbellata
  • Bulbostylis humilis
  • Abildgaardia elegantissima
  • Scirpus schimperiana
  • Bulbostylis taylori
  • Bulbostylis schimperiana
  • Bulbostylis elegantissima
  • Scirpus schimperianus
  • Bulbostylis filamentosa
  • Fimbristylis schimperiana

Flora

Entry for BULBOSTYLIS schimperiana C. B. Clarke [family CYPERACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of Tropical Africa, Vol 8, page 264, (1902) Author: (By C. B. Clarke.)
Names
BULBOSTYLIS schimperiana C. B. Clarke [family CYPERACEAE], in Durand & Schinz, Conspect. Fl. Afr. v. 616
BULBOSTYLIS subumbellata K. Schum. [family CYPERACEAE], in Stuhlmann, Exsicc. 3966 a.
Isolepsis schimperiana Hochst. [family ], in Flora 1841, i. Intell. 21; A. Rich. Tent. Fl. Abyss. ii. 501.
Fimbristylis schimperiana Boeck. [family CYPERACEAE], in Flora, 1858, 600.
Fimbristylis subumbellata K. Schum. [family CYPERACEAE], in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 125.
Scirpus schimperianus Boeck. [family CYPERACEAE], in Linnæa, xxxvi. 750; Engl. Hochgebirgsfl. Trop. Afr. 148.
Scirpus fimbristyloides K. Schum. [family CYPERACEAE], in Stuhlmann, Exsicc. 1505
Information
Rhizome hardly any. Stems densely tufted, 4–9 in. long, slender, at the top glabrous and 9–13-ribbed. Leaves 1/2 the length of the stem, setaceous; sheaths with long white hairs in the throat. Head 1, of 2–10 spikelets, dark red or brown, 1/3– 1/2 in. in diam.; bracts 2–1, setaceous, about as long as the head. Spikelets 1/5 by 1/12– 1/10 in., ellipsoid, or subcylindric, obtuse, many-flowered. Glumes ovate, obtuse, minutely hairy, the green keel hardly excurrent. Style as long as the nut; branches 3. Nut 2/5 the length of the glume, trigonous, obovoid, truncate, pallid, with about 18 longitudinal striations and transversely barred between them (i.e. the external cells of the nut transversely oblong, superimposed in vertical series); style-base persistent on the nut, conic.
Distribution
Abyssinia Nile Land Begemeder? Addi Bachdanit, 6800 ft., Schimper, 846! Gerra, 8200 ft., Schimper, 1253! Tigre; near Adoa, Schimper, 299!German East Africa Mozamb. Dist. Karagwe; Bukoba, Stuhlmann, 1164! 1505! 3966A!British East Africa Nile Land Athi, Gregory, 102!
Notes
The plant Stuhlmann 1505 is regarded by K. Schumann as the same species as 3966A; but it is young, and has some long white hairs at the base of the head, and possibly may not belong.

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