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Bulbostylis rarissima

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Identification
Bulbostylis rarissima (Steud.) C.B.Clarke [family CYPERACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Clarke, C.B., Cyperus rarissimus Steud. [family CYPERACEAE ]
Related name
  • Bulbostylis rarissima
  • Cyperus rarissimus

Flora

Entry for BULBOSTYLIS rarissima 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 rarissima C. B. Clarke [family CYPERACEAE], in Durand & Schinz, Conspect. Fl. Afr. v. 615.
Cyperus rarissimus Steud. [family CYPERACEAE], Syn. Pl. Glum. ii. 16.
Information
Stem 2–3 in. long, setaceous, with 1 spikelet or 2 sessile together, glabrous. Leaves nearly glabrous; sheaths hardly ciliate in the throat. Spikelets 1/8 by 1/12 in., 8–12-flowered, pale brown. Glumes pubescent, in fruit spreading horizontally. Style 3-fid. Nut 1/3 the length of the glume, trigonous, obovoid, almost truncate, transversely wavy-lineate (owing to the outermost cells being longitudinally oblong); crowned by the persistent depressed-bulbous style-base; otherwise resembling small examples of B. barbata .
Distribution
Abyssinia Nile Land Schimper!

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