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Scleria lithosperma

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Name

Identification
Scleria krugiana Boeckeler [family CYPERACEAE ] Scleria lithosperma (L.) O. P. Swartz [family CYPERACEAE ] (stored under name);
Related name
  • Hypoporum roxburghianum
  • Schoenus filiformis
  • Scleria not on sheet
  • Carex lithosperma
  • Scleria lithosperma
  • Scleria krugiana
  • Carex not on sheet
  • Scleria filiformis
  • Scleria
  • Scirpus lithospermus
  • Scleria sp.
  • Scleria capillaris
  • Schoenus lithospermus

Flora

Entry for SCLERIA lithosperma Swartz [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
SCLERIA lithosperma Swartz [family CYPERACEAE], Prod. 18. —Kunth, Enum. ii. 349; Boeck. in Linnæa, xxxviii. 451; C. B. Clarke in Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. vi. 685, and in Durand & Schinz, Conspect. Fl. Afr. v. 672; K. Schum. in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 129; Urban, Symb. Antill. ii. 141.
SCLERIA puzzolanea K. Schum. [family CYPERACEAE], in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 129.
Scirpus lithospermus Linn. [family CYPERACEAE], Sp. Pl. ed. i. 51.
Information
Nearly glabrous, except the leaf-sheaths. Rhizome horizontal. Stems 1 1/2–3 ft. long, medium-sized or slender, not tufted. Leaves 6–12 by 1/8– 1/5 in. Panicle straggling; the remote axillary peduncles carrying a few-flowered irregular corymb or often only a spike of 1–5 separate spikelets; lowest bract altogether similar to the highest leaf. Spikelets in small clusters or solitary, 1/6 in. long, pale brown marked with green, many monœcious. Nut 1/16– 1/12 in. long, obovoid or ellipsoid, smooth, white; hypogynous disc hardly any.
Range
Throughout tropical and subtropical regions.
Distribution
British East Africa Nile Land Mombasa, Taylor!German East Africa Mozamb. Dist. Usambara; Amboni, Holst, 2792.

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