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Cyperus chordorrhizus

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Identification
Cyperus chordorrhizus Chiov. [family CYPERACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Data not digitized, Cyperus chordorrhizus Chiov. [family CYPERACEAE ] Verified by Data not digitized,
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Entry for CYPERUS chordorrhizus Chiov. [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 chordorrhizus Chiov. [family CYPERACEAE], (1926);. type: S3, “Chisimaio”, Gorini 97 (FT lecto.). Plate 4 D.
Information
Perennial with a long creeping branched stolon to 1 m or more long with shorter lateral sterile shoots from the nodes (these are frequently crowded at the tip of the stolon), and fertile terminal shoots. Leaves 0.5–8 cm long and 0.5–1.5 mm wide, subterete with scabrid margin and frequently with a prominent transverse impression below the apex; leaf-sheaths grey, translucent, but with darker reddish brown nerves, the old sheaths darker and splitting up into fibres. Inflorescence a solitary head or spikelet-cluster on a 1–8 cm long stem, consisting of 2–10 rather flattened reddish brown spikelets 4–10 x 3–4 mm. Glumes 3–4 mm long, reddish brown with a paler margin. Style 3-branched.
Range
C1; S2, 3
Altitude range
near sea-level to c. 50 m.
Distribution
SOMALIA Hemming 3344; Hansen 6000; Gillett & Hemming 24432.
Distribution (external)
Kenya

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