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Cyperus phillipsiae

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Name

Identification
Cyperus phillipsiae (C.B.Clarke) Kük. [family CYPERACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by G.Kükenthal, Mariscus phillipsiae C.B.Clarke [family CYPERACEAE ]
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  • Cyperus phillipsiae
  • Mariscus phillipsiae

Flora

Entry for CYPERUS phillipsiae (C.B. Cl.) Kük. [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 phillipsiae (C.B. Cl.) Kük. [family CYPERACEAE], (1936);. type: N1, without precise locality, Lort Phillips s.n. (K holo.).
Mariscus phillipsiae C.B. Cl. [family CYPERACEAE], (1901);. type: N1, without precise locality, Lort Phillips s.n. (K holo.).
Information
Medium-sized perennial with a fleshy stem-base, but without a rhizome; stem 20–50 cm long, triangular, glabrous, in the lower part covered by wide greyish white leaf-sheaths. Leaves numerous, to 40 cm long and 2–6 mm wide, flat, strongly scabrid along the margin. Inflorescence of 4–10 sessile or stalked spikes; largest peduncles 0.5–3 cm long. Spikes 10–20 x 5–8 mm, with numerous densely set glumes; rhachis strongly nodular, glabrous. Spikelets 3–5 x 1–1.3 mm, somewhat angular, falling off entire when mature. Glumes 2.5–3 mm long, greyish white with or without green midrib and sometimes with an orange or reddish brown tinge; apex usually shortly mucronate. Style with 3 branches. Nutlet 1.2–1.3 x 0.7–0.8 mm, obovate, triangular, reddish brown, almost smooth to minutely papillose, when mature held tightly pressed between the stiff margins of the glumes.
Range
N1; C2; S1, 3
Altitude range
sea-level to c. 600 m.
Distribution
SOMALIA Moggi & Bavazzano 1632; Godfrey-Fausset 27; Glover & Gilliland 437.
Distribution (external)
Kenya

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