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Kyllinga odorata

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Identification
Kyllinga odorata Not on sheet. [family CYPERACEAE ] Verified by Not on sheet., Cyperus sesquiflorus (Torr.) Mattf. & Kük. [family CYPERACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on sheet.,
Related name
  • Kyllinga leucocephala
  • Kyllinga pumila
  • Kyllinga viridula
  • Cyperus sesquiflorus
  • Kyllinga brevifolia
  • Kyllinga odorata
  • Kyllinga monocephala
  • Kyllinga appendiculata
  • Kyllinga triceps
  • Kyllinga cylindrica
  • Kyllinga not on sheet
Common name
  • Whitehead sedge, Flora of North America Vol. 23
  • an-siri-an-rini (NWT) (SIERRA LEONE, TEMNE), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1

Flora

Entry for Kyllinga cylindrica Nees [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
Kyllinga cylindrica Nees [family CYPERACEAE], in Wight, Contrib. 91. —Nees in Linnæa, ix. 286; Kunth, Enum. ii. 133; Boeck. in Linnæa, xxxv. 415; Ridley in Trans. Linn. Soc. ser. 2, Bot. ii. 146; C. B. Clarke in Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. vi. 588, in Durand & Schinz, Conspect. Fl. Afr. v. 528, and in Dyer, Fl. Cap. vii. 153; K. Schum. in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 123; Engl. Hochgebirgsfl. Trop. Afr. 146; Rendle in Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw. ii. 104.
Kyllinga triceps Afzel. [family CYPERACEAE], Remed. Guin. 70, not of Rottb.
Kyllinga triceps Boeck. var. β obtusiflora [family CYPERACEAE], in Linnæa, xxxv. 414; Ridley in Trans. Linn. Soc. ser. 2, Bot. ii. 145.
Kyllinga triceps Ridley var. longispicata [family CYPERACEAE], in Trans. Linn. Soc. ser. 2, Bot. ii. 146.
Kyllinga monocephala Benth. [family CYPERACEAE], in Hook. Niger Fl. 552 partly.
Kyllinga macrocephala Hook. f. [family CYPERACEAE], in Journ. Linn. Soc. vi. 22, and vii. 225, not of A. Rich.
Kyllinga odorata Boeck. var. β gracilis [family CYPERACEAE], in Linnæa, xxxv. 411 partly.
Kyllinga cæspitosa Ridley [family CYPERACEAE], in Trans. Linn. Soc. ser. 2, Bot. ii. 145 partly.
Cyperus Schimperi K. Schum. [family CYPERACEAE], in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 121.
Information
Rhizome 0 or short, except in var. appendiculata. Stem 6–18 in. long, hardly thickened at the base by leaf-sheaths. Leaves often longer than the stem, 1/8– 1/5 in. broad. Head of 3–1 (often 3) white or very pale brown spikes; bracts 3–4, lowest 1–6 in. long, similar to the leaves. Middle spike 1/3 by 1/4 in., short-cylindric, green or whitish, dense. Spikelets 1/8 in. long, each producing 1 nut. Nut-bearing glume ovate, acute, not mucronate, without glands, thin; keel wingless, smooth or very nearly so. Nut 2/3 the length of the glume, yellow-brown finally black.
Range
Also in Australia.
Distribution
Sierra Leone Upper Guinea Afzelius! Welwitsch, 6989!British East Africa Nile Land Ruwenzori, 9000 ft., Scott-Elliot, 7757!Angola Lower Guinea Pungo Andongo; 3500 ft., by the River Casalale, Welwitsch, 6789! Golungo Alto; Monte de Queta, Welwitsch, 7005! Huilla, 5000, ft.; near streams in Morro de Lopollo, Welwitsch, 6795! near Humpata, Welwitsch, fruit, 1080!German East Africa Mozamb. Dist. Kilimanjaro, 5000–6000 ft., Taylor! Volkens, 693!Liberia Upper Guinea Bassa Cove, Ansell!Niger Upper Guinea Old Calabar, Robb!Cameroons Upper Guinea Upper slopes of Cameroon Mountain, 8000–10,000 ft., Johnston! Mann, 2104!Fernando Po Upper Guinea Clarence Peak, 7500–8500 ft., Mann, 659! 1474!
Distribution (external)
South Africa
Madagascar
India
South China
Notes
(The American K. odorata, Vahl, is hardly specifically separable.)

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