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Cyperus albiceps

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Name

Identification
Cyperus albiceps Ridl. [family CYPERACEAE ] Kyllinga bulbosa P.Beauv. [family CYPERACEAE ] (stored under name);
Related name
  • Cyperus albiceps
  • Kyllinga bulbosa

Flora

Entry for Kyllinga albiceps Rendle [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
Kyllinga albiceps Rendle [family CYPERACEAE], in Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw. ii. 106.
Kyllinga macrocephala C. B. Clarke var. angustior [family CYPERACEAE], in Durand & Schinz, Conspect. Fl. Afr. v. 529; Durand & Schinz, Études Fl. Congo, i. 279.
Cyperus albiceps Ridley [family CYPERACEAE], in Journ. Bot. 1884, 16.
Information
Stem 4–9 in. long, rather slender, solitary, bulbous at the base; sometimes with very slender stolons hardening into rhizomes 2 1/2 in. long, less than 1/20 in. broad. Leaves usually much shorter than the stem, 1/8– 1/5 in. broad. Head of 3–1 (mostly 3) spikes, dusky straw-coloured; bracts 3, lowest 2 in. long, similar to the leaves. Middle spike ovoid, 1/4– 1/3 in. long, dense. Spikelets 1/6 in. long, each perfecting 2–5 nuts. Nut-bearing glume ovate, scarcely acute, obscurely ribbed, usually with sunk round red or blackish glands; keel wingless, smooth. Ripe nut not seen.
Distribution
Niger Upper Guinea Old Calabar, Robb! Holland, 50!British East Africa Nile Land Ruwenzori, 5000 ft., Scott-Elliot, 7626!Congo Lower Guinea Smith! Stanley Pool, 900 ft., Hens, B, 14 Kisantu, on the Inkissi River, Gillet, 442!Congo South Central Mzona, Descamps! Albertville, near Tanganyika, Huy!Mozamb. Dist. Lake Tanganyika, Storms!Cameroons Upper Guinea Rio del Rey, Johnston!Angola Lower Guinea Pungo Andongo; in the Præsidium, Welwitsch, 6796 partly!Nyasaland Mozamb. Dist. in shallow pools by the River Nsessi, Scott!
Notes
This differs very little from K. macrocephala, A. Rich., but by the slenderer stems. The glands in the glumes are usually very prominent in K. albiceps, but sometimes they are very few. Scott-Elliot, 7626, has much smaller heads and spikelets than the type form.

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