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Carex steudneri

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Name

Identification
Carex conferta Hochst. ex A.Rich. [family CYPERACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Verdcourt, Carex leptosaccus C.B.Clarke [family CYPERACEAE ] Verified by Clarke, C.B., Carex steudneri Boeck. [family CYPERACEAE ]
Related name
  • Carex steudneri
  • Carex koestlini
  • Carex wahlenbergiana
  • Carex conferta
  • Carex leptosaccus

Flora

Entry for CAREX Steudneri Boeck. [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
CAREX Steudneri Boeck. [family CYPERACEAE], in Linnæa, xl. 364. —C. B. Clarke in Durand & Schinz, Conspect. Fl. Afr. v. 690, and in Journ. Linn. Soc. xxxiv. 297.
CAREX wahlenbergiana Boott var. δ [family CYPERACEAE], Carex, ii. 102, t. 304.
Information
Glabrous except the minutely scabrous panicle-branches and utricles. Rhizome stout. Stems 2–4 1/2 ft. long, robust. Leaves 2 ft. by 1/3 in., stout. Panicle 11 by 2 in., the partial panicles narrowly oblong, erect, dense, chestnut or deep brown; bracts overtopping the panicle. Spikelets 3/4 by 1/6 in., with 6–8 utricles, male at the top. Female glumes elliptic-lanceolate, sometimes mucronate, rather shorter than the utricles, brown or chestnut, hardly striate except near the keel, minutely hispid over the top of the back. Utricle exceeding 1/4 in. long, linear-lanceolate, triquetrous, densely hispid, beak about 1/2 the length of the utricle, linear, very hispid, deeply split at least on the convex face. Nut 1/10 in. long, oblong, dark-brown on a long yellow stalk.
Distribution
Abyssinia Nile Land Samen; Mount Silke, 9000–10,000 ft., Schimper, 545! near Demerki, 11,000 ft., Schimper, 1038! Begemeder Province, Schimper, 1559!
Notes
See remarks under C. chlorosaccus above.

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