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Cyperus grandibulbosus

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Identification
Cyperus grandibulbosus Not on sheet. [family CYPERACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Vorster, P.,
Related name
  • Mariscus grandibulbosus
  • Cyperus grandibulbosus
  • Mariscus nogalensis
  • Cyperus giolii

Flora

Entry for CYPERUS grandibulbosus C.B. Cl. [family CYPERACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Somalia
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Somalia, Vol 4, (1995) Author: by K. A. Lye [updated by M. Thulin 2008]
Names
CYPERUS grandibulbosus C.B. Cl. [family CYPERACEAE], (1902).
CYPERUS giolii Chiov. [family CYPERACEAE], (1915);. type: S1, between “Baidoa” and “Bur Acaba”, Paoli 1133 (FT holo.).
Mariscus nogalensis Chiov. [family CYPERACEAE], (1928);. type: N3, “Bei Dagoi”, Puccioni & Stefanini 882 (FT holo.).
Information
Fairly robust perennial with long slender stolons and a 7–10 mm thick bulb; stems 10–60 cm long and 1–3 mm thick, triangular, growing directly from the bulb. Leaves many from the base, the largest 15–30 cm long and 2.5 mm wide; leaf-sheaths rather wide and fleshy, brown. Inflorescence a congested anthela of few–many crowded spikes, 2–4 cm in diam., more rarely with 1–4 additional stalked spikes; inflorescence-bracts 4–8, leafy, spreading or reflexed, the largest 8–20 cm long. Spikelets 5–20 x 1.5–3 mm, lanceolate, golden yellow to yellowish brown, 8–15-flowered. Glumes 3.8–5 mm long, ovate-lanceolate, yellowish brown to medium reddish brown with a green excurrent midrib (in the uppermost glumes the mucro is at least 0.5 mm long and recurved) and 3–5 prominent lateral nerves on each side of the midrib. Style 3-branched.
Range
N2, 3; S1, 2 also in East Africa.
Altitude range
near sea-level to 1250 m.
Distribution
SOMALIA Glover & Gilliland 974; Eagleton 86; Terry 3411, 3428.

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