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Cyperus niloticus

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Identification
Cyperus niloticus Forssk. [family CYPERACEAE ] Verified by Not on Sheet, Cyperus articulatus L. [family CYPERACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by G. Kükenthal, 1930
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Flora

Entry for CYPERUS articulatus Linn. [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 articulatus Linn. [family CYPERACEAE], Sp. Pl. ed. 2, 66. —Kunth, Enum. ii. 53; Barker Webb in Hook. Niger Fl. 182; Boeck. in Linnæa, xxxvi. 274; T. Thoms. in Speke, Nile, Append. 653; Oliver in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxix. 165; Ridley in Trans. Linn. Soc. ser. 2, Bot. ii. 141 partly; C. B. Clarke in Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. vi. 611, in Durand & Schinz, Conspect. Fl. Afr. v. 548, and in Bull. Herb. Boiss. iv. Append. iii. 29; K. Schum. in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 120; Schweinf. in Bull. Herb. Boiss. ii. Append. ii. 48, 102; Durand & Schinz, Études Fl. Congo, i. 283; Urban, Symb. Antill. ii. 33; Rendle in Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw. ii. 117.
CYPERUS niloticus Forsk. [family CYPERACEAE], Fl. Ægypt.-Arab. 13; Beauv. Fl. Owar. ii. 63, t. 97, fig. 2.
CYPERUS fistulosus Ehrenb. ex Boeck. [family CYPERACEAE], in Linnæa xxxvi. 275.
Information
Glabrous. Stolons long, hardening into stout woody rhizomes. Stems 3–6 ft. high, at the top round or nearly so, showing (at least when dry, owing to shrinkage of the pith) transverse-rings 1/2–1 1/2 in. apart. Leaves 0, or the green termination of the top sheath rarely 1 in. long. Umbel 4–8 in. in diam., compound or smaller (sometimes hardly 1 in. in diam.) with few spikelets; bracts 1/4– 3/4 in. long, elliptic-lanceolate. Spikes of 3–4 spikelets, but several congested into 1 apparent spike of numerous spikelets. Spikelets 1/3–1 by 1/20– 1/12 in., 12–50-flowered, linear, straw-coloured or dirty-brown. Glumes obtuse, scarcely keeled. Nut 3/5 the length of the glume, oblong-ellipsoid, black; style-branches 3, long, little exserted.
Range
In the tropical and warm regions of both hemispheres.
Distribution
Senegal Upper Guinea Sieber, 101! Dollinger, 58! Heudelot, 522!Eritrea Nile Land Ainsaba Valley near Keren, Steudner, 905! Habab district, 5500 ft., Hildebrandt, 361B!Gaboon Lower Guinea Salowe, Soyaux, 273!Congo Lower Guinea Smith, 14! 26!Congo South Central Monbuttu; Munza, Schweinfurth, 3446! by the River Sankuru, Demeuse! Mzona, Descamps! Lunda, Pogge, 1586!Zanzibar Mozamb. Dist. Hildebrandt, 1058! Schmidt, 65!Cape Verde Upper Guinea St. Antonio, Lowe! St. Nicolao, Lowe! Bolle! St. Iago, Brunner!Gambia Upper Guinea Heudelot, 344!Sierra Leone Upper Guinea River Bagru, Mann, 894!Gold Coast Upper Guinea Accra; Buettner! Ashanti, Bowdich!Niger Upper Guinea Old Calabar, Robb! Confluence of the River Quorra (Niger) and the River Tchadda (Benue), Barter!Cameroons Upper Guinea Buchholz!Fernando Po Upper Guinea Barter!Somaliland Nile Land Keller, 92! 95!British East Africa Nile Land banks of the White Nile, Petherick! Speke & Grant! east side of the Albert Edward Nyanza, Scott-Elliot, 8051! Mombasa, Taylor!Angola Lower Guinea Congo; edges of lakes at Quizembo, Welwitsch, 7034! Ambriz, Monteiro! Icolo e Bengo; edges of Lagoa da Funda, Welwitsch, 7031! 7089; Pungo Andongo; banks of the River Cuanza, Welwitsch, 6936!German East Africa Mozamb. Dist. Usambara; Masheua, Holst, 3521! Kilimanjaro; Lake Yipe, 2500 ft., Volkens, 2372! 2387!Portuguese East Africa Mozamb. Dist. Mozambique, Peters, 8! Luabo River, Kirk!Nyasaland Mozamb. Dist. Elephant Marsh in the Shire Valley, Scott!Ngamiland Mozamb. Dist. Lake River, Lugard, 12!

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