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Bulbostylis puberula

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Isosyntype of Isolepis gracilis Nees [family CYPERACEAE]
Bulbostylis puberula (Kunth) C.B.Clarke var. gracilis C.E.C.Fisch. [family CYPERACEAE]
Isosyntype of Isolepis gracilis Nees [family CYPERACEAE]
Isotype of Isolepis gracilis Nees [family CYPERACEAE]
Bulbostylis puberula (Kunth) C.B.Clarke [family CYPERACEAE]
Bulbostylis puberula (Kunth) C.B.Clarke [family CYPERACEAE]
Isosyntype of Isolepis gracilis Nees [family CYPERACEAE]
Type of Isolepis gracilis Nees [family CYPERACEAE]
Bulbostylis puberula (Kunth) C.B.Clarke var. gracilis C.E.C.Fisch. [family CYPERACEAE]
Isosyntype of Isolepis gracilis Nees [family CYPERACEAE]
Fimbristylis densa S.T.Blake var. cameroonensis [family CYPERACEAE]
Fimbristylis densa S.T.Blake var. cameroonensis [family CYPERACEAE]
Type of Scirpus puberulus Poir. [family CYPERACEAE]
Bulbostylis puberula (Kunth) C.B.Clarke [family CYPERACEAE]
Isosyntype of Isolepis gracilis Nees [family CYPERACEAE]
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Identification
Scirpus puberulus Poir. [family CYPERACEAE ] Bulbostylis puberula (Poir.) C.B.Clarke [family CYPERACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by C.B.Clarke,
Related name
  • Fimbristylis densa
  • Scirpus wightianus
  • Bulbostylis densa
  • Scirpus puberulus
  • Bulbostylis puberula
  • Isolepis gracilis

Flora

Entry for Bulbostylis densa var. cameroonensis (C.B. Cl.) Hooper [family CYPERACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of West Tropical Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of West Tropical Africa, Vol 3, Part 2,
Names
Bulbostylis densa var. cameroonensis (C.B. Cl.) Hooper [family CYPERACEAE], in Kew Bull. 26: 583 (1972).
Bulbostylis puberula var. cameroonensis C.B. Cl. [family CYPERACEAE], in Dur. et Schinz, Consp. Fl. Afr. 5: 615 (1895), name only.
Information
Differing from the rest of the species in Africa in having spikelets on short pedicels producing a compact inflorescence and glumes with a distinctly excurrent nerve;grassland.
Habitat
grassland
Distribution
Cam.: Cam. Mt., 6,000–1,000 ft. (Dec.) Mann 1360b! 2093b!
Notes
[A variable species, the lowland form of which has a number of small spikelets with glumes about 1·5 mm. long, whilst specimens from the Nimba Mts. and Cameroun Mt. have a few larger spikelets with dark glumes 2 mm. long.]

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