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Cyperus capitatus

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Name

Identification
Cyperus capitatus Vand. [family CYPERACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by S.S. Hooper, 1983 Scirpus kalli Forssk. [family CYPERACEAE ] Verified by S.S. Hooper, 1983 Scirpus mucronatus L. [family CYPERACEAE ] Verified by Not on Sheet, Schoenus mucronatus L. [family CYPERACEAE ] Verified by Not on Sheet, Cyperus aegyptiacus Gloxin. [family CYPERACEAE ] Verified by Not on Sheet,
Related name
  • Cyperus aegyptiacus
  • Cyperus capitatus
  • Scirpus mucronatus
  • Galilea mucronata
  • Schoenus mucronatus
  • Scirpus kalli
  • Mariscus dubius

Flora

Entry for CYPERUS uncinatus Poir. [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
CYPERUS uncinatus Poir. [family CYPERACEAE], in Lam. Encycl. vii. 247. —Kunth, Enum. ii. 21; Boeck. in Linnæa, xxxv. 502; C. B. Clarke in Journ. Linn. Soc. xx. 284, xxi. 90, and in Durand & Schinz, Conspect. Fl. Afr. v. 580; Dur. et De Wild. in Comptes-rendus Soc. bot. Belg. xxxvi. 89; K. Schum. in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 118; Durand & Schinz, Études Fl. Congo, i. 294; Urban, Symb. Antill. ii. 24; Rendle in Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw. ii. 110.
CYPERUS capitatus Retz. [family CYPERACEAE], Obs. iv. 9 (?); Kunth, Enum. ii. 97, not of Vandelli.
CYPERUS cuspidatus H. B. & K. [family CYPERACEAE], Nov. Gen. et Sp. i. 204; Kunth, Enum. ii. 22; Boeck. in Linnæa, xxxv. 496; Oliver in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxix. 164; C. B. Clarke in Journ. Linn. Soc. xx. 284, xxi. 88, and in Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. vi. 598; Ridley in Trans. Linn. Soc. ser. 2, Bot. ii. 130.
CYPERUS squarrosus T. Thoms. [family CYPERACEAE], in Speke, Nile, Append. 653, not of Linn.
Dichostylis cuspidata Palla [family CYPERACEAE], in Engl. Jahrb. x. 296.
Information
Glabrous, annual. Stems 2–10 in. long, tufted, slender. Leaves usually as long as the stem, setaceous. Umbel simple (rarely compound or reduced to a head); bracts 3–6, much overtopping the umbel, setaceous. Spikelets digitate, often 3–10 together, 1/2 by 1/8– 1/6 in., compressed, 8–28-flowered, from pale ferruginous to brown. Glumes ovate, strongly 3-nerved, the green keel excurrent in a recurved prominent bristle. Nut as long as 1/2 the glume (exclusive of the mucro), oblong-obovoid.
Range
Common in all tropical and warm temperate lands.
Distribution
Sierra Leone Upper Guinea Smeathman!British East Africa Nile Land Jur, Schweinfurth, 1984 partly! Madi; on rocky heights, Speke & Grant!Gaboon Lower Guinea Munda; Sibange Farm, Soyaux, 342!Nyasaland Mozamb. Dist. Namasi, Cameron, 13!Niger Upper Guinea Nupe, Barter, 1569!Soudan Nile Land Lécard, 140!Congo Lower Guinea Msuata, Buettner, 12! Kinchassa, on Stanley Pool, Duchesne, 176! Stanley Pool, Hens, B, 68! Kisantu, Gillet, 502! Lutete, Hens, A, 23! Lufu, 200–500 ft., Hens, A, 207!Angola Lower Guinea Pungo Andongo, 3500 ft., Welwitsch, 6910! 7155! 7157! 7168! Golungo Alto; near Cambondo, Welwitsch, 7099! Huilla; in damp places in Sorghum fields, 5000 ft., Welwitsch, 6879! Humpata, Newton, 24!
Notes
C. aristatus, Rottb., having similar recurved points to the glumes, has been much confused with the present species, but differs inter alia by having the spikelets spicate, not digitate.

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