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Cyperus fischerianus

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Name

Identification
Cyperus fischerianus G.W.Schimp. ex A.Rich. [family CYPERACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on sheet,
Related name
  • Cyperus fischerianus
  • Cyperus depauperatus

Flora

Entry for CYPERUS fischerianus Schimper ex Hochst. [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 fischerianus Schimper ex Hochst. [family CYPERACEAE], in Flora, 1841, i. Intell. 21. —A. Rich. Tent. Fl. Abyss. ii. 488; Boeck. in Linnæa, xxxv. 582; C. B. Clarke in Durand & Schinz, Conspect. Fl. Afr. v. 562; K. Schum. in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 120; Engl. Hochgebirgsfl. Trop. Afr. 140; Schweinf. in Bull. Herb. Boiss. ii. Append. ii. 103.
Information
Glumes more distant on the rhachilla, in fruit not or hardly overlapping, pale, thin in texture, at the top rounded, thin, often torn, the nerve hardly ever excurrent. Nut ovoid or somewhat obovoid, small; otherwise as C. Mannii and C. Deckenii .
Distribution
Abyssinia Nile Land Mount Scholoda, Schimper, 348! Debra Eski, 8250 ft., Schimper, 160! Amman Eski, 6800 ft., Schimper, 533! and without precise locality, Schimper, 261! 1481! Parkyns!Nyasaland Mozamb. Dist. in damp places on the Nyika Mountains, 6000–7000 ft., Whyte! Zomba Rock, Whyte!British East Africa Nile Land Butagu in Ruwenzori district, Scott-Elliot, 7979!
Notes
The diagnosis above given is drawn from Schimper, 348. With this, Scott-Elliot, 7779, closely agrees. The southern Nyasaland examples of Whyte have the spikelets rather smaller, the glumes smaller and closer together on the rhachilla.

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