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Cyperus renschii

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Name

Identification
Cyperus sylvicola Ridl. [family CYPERACEAE ] Cyperus renschii Boeck. [family CYPERACEAE ] (stored under name);
Related name
  • Cyperus sylvicola
  • Cyperus deremensis
  • Cyperus renschii
Common name
  • fudinyε (NWT) (SIERRA LEONE, MANDING-MANINKA (Koranko)), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1

Flora

Entry for Cyperus renschii Boeck. [family CYPERACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of West Tropical Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of West Tropical Africa, Vol 3, Part 2,
Names
Cyperus renschii Boeck. [family CYPERACEAE], in Flora 65: 11 (1882); F.T.A. 8: 345; Kük. l.c. 206.
Information
Robust perennial with a much-branched, lax inflorescence with broad bracts and very numerous small, round clusters of few-flowered dark spikelets with recurved tips to the glumes;secondary or gallery forest, by streams.
Habitat
secondary or gallery forest, by streams.
Range
Throughout tropical Africa.
Distribution
Guin.: Sébori, Fouta Djalon (Oct.) Adam 12674!S. L.: Yetaya (Sept.) Thomas 2444!Lib.: Kitoma, Sanokwele Dist. (Mar.) Adam 16810!Iv. C.: Sassandra to Beyo (Jan.)Ghana: Burton! Wenchi to Techiman, Ashanti (Mar.) Morton GC 8556! Kwahu (Apr.) Johnson 689!S. Nig.: Obudu Plateau, 5,000 ft. (Apr.) Haines 201! Sonkwala, Obudu Div. (Dec.) Savory 8 Keay FHI 25185!W. Cam.: Cam. Mt., 2–3,000 ft. (Dec.) Mann 2103! Wum (Jan.) Brunt 925! Kumbo, 5,500 ft. (Feb.) Hepper 1977! Ashong, Batibo, 5,100 ft. (Apr.) Brunt 1090! Ndop (Dec.) Adams GC 11058!

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