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Cyperus microlepis

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Cyperus submicrolepis Kük. [family CYPERACEAE]
Type? of Cyperus microlepis Boeck [family CYPERACEAE]
Type? of Cyperus microlepis Boeck [family CYPERACEAE]
Cyperus iria L. [family CYPERACEAE]
Holotype of Cyperus microlepis Boeck [family CYPERACEAE]
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Name

Identification
Cyperus microlepis Boeck [family CYPERACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Boeck, 1879
Related name
  • Cyperus capillaris
  • Cyperus iria
  • Cyperus microlepis
  • Scirpus sp.
  • Cyperus submicrolepis

Flora

Entry for CYPERUS microlepis Boeck. [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 microlepis Boeck. [family CYPERACEAE], in Flora, 1879, 551. —C. B. Clarke in Journ. Linn. Soc. xxi. 137, and in Durand & Schinz, Conspect. Fl. Afr. v. 569.
CYPERUS Afzelii Boeck. var. capillifolius [family CYPERACEAE], in Flora, 1879, 547 partly.
Information
Stems slender, at the top trigonous, not triquetrous. Spikelets whitish. Glumes more elongate and less truncate than in C. difformis, Linn. Nut more elongate and narrower than in C. difformis, Linn.; otherwise as C. difformis, Linn.
Distribution
Niger Upper Guinea Jeba, on the Niger, Barter!British East Africa Nile Land Bongo; Gir, Schweinfurth, 2195! Jur; Jur Ghattas, Schweinfurth, 2328!
Notes
This might be treated as a variety of C. difformis, Linn.

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