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Cyperus flavescens

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Identification
Isotype of Cyperus abyssinicus Hochst. ex Steud. [family CYPERACEAE ] Verified by Not on sheet, Cyperus flavescens L. [family CYPERACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on sheet,
Related name
  • Cyperus rivularis
  • Cyperus esculentus
  • Cyperus piceus
  • Pycreus pseudodiaphanus
  • Cyperus pumilus
  • Cyperus lanceus
  • Cyperus squalidus
  • Pycreus squalidus
  • Pycreus flavescens
  • Cyperus abyssinicus
  • Cyperus mollis
  • Cyperus intermedius
  • Cyperus diandrus
  • Cyperus not on sheet
  • Cyperus flavescens
  • Cyperus sp.

Flora

Entry for PYCREUS sanguinolentus Nees [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
PYCREUS sanguinolentus Nees [family CYPERACEAE], in Linnæa, ix. 283. —C. B. Clarke in Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. vi. 590, and in Durand & Schinz, Conspect. Fl. Afr. v. 542.
Cyperus sanguinolentus Vahl [family CYPERACEAE], Enum. ii. 351.
Cyperus Eragrostis Kunth [family CYPERACEAE], Enum. ii. 7; Boeck. in Linnæa, xxxv. 443, incl. vars.; Schweinf. Beitr. Fl. Aethiop. 215; Engl. Hochgebirgsfl. Trop. Afr. 138; K. Schum. in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 117; Vahl, Enum. ii. 322? partly?
Cyperus nevrotropis Steud. [family CYPERACEAE], in Flora, 1842, 583, and Syn. Pl. Glum. ii. 12; A. Rich. Tent. Fl. Abyss. ii. 476.
Cyperus flavescens A. Rich. [family CYPERACEAE], Tent. Fl. Abyss. ii. 474 partly.
Information
Stem 4–18 in. long, covered 1/4 its length by leaf-sheaths, often flowering the first year, or usually decumbent at the base, rooting and often long creeping. Leaves as long as the stem or scarcely half so long, 1/10– 1/6 in. broad. Umbel simple, usually narrow, often contracted nearly into 1 head; bracts 3, lowest 3–6 in. long, similar to the leaves. Spikelets 1/2– 2/3 by 1/10– 1/8 in., 6–30-flowered, not much compressed, greenish-brown more or less tinged with dark red. Glumes ovate, obtuse, turgid, 3–5-nerved on the back. Nut 1/3– 1/2 the length of the glume, obovoid, biconvex, ashy-brown; style longer than the nut, its linear branches long exserted; superficial cells of the nut small, subquadrate hexagonous.
Range
Also in Asia (except Siberia) and Australia
Distribution
Eritrea Nile Land Hamasen district, Steudner, 933!Zanzibar Mozamb. Dist. Taylor!Abyssinia Nile Land Tigre; near Adowa, Schimper, 122 partly! Samen; ponds near Gapdia, Schimper, 765! Dehli-Dikeno, Schimper, 1589! and without precise locality, Schimper, 14! 24! 317!German East Africa Mozamb. Dist. Karagwe; Bukoba, Stuhlmann, 1099! Harigae (?), Fischer, 636!
Distribution (external)
St. Helena

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