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Cyperus zollingeri

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Name

Identification
Cyperus zollingeri Steud. [family CYPERACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Johannes Hendrikus Kern,
Related name
  • Cyperus sphacelatus
  • Cyperus permacer
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  • Cyperus ramosii
  • Cyperus tenuiculmis
  • Cyperus napalia
  • Cyperus lucidulus

Flora

Entry for CYPERUS Zollingeri C. B. Clarke Var. parva [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 Zollingeri C. B. Clarke Var. parva [family CYPERACEAE],  
Information
Plants small, slender, with very narrow leaves, much depauperated umbel, and dull-coloured hardly at all yellow spikelets.
Distribution
Congo Lower Guinea Lutete, 1800–2000 ft., Hens, A, 220!Congo South Central Bussindi, 950 ft., Hens, C, 159! Equatorville, Hens, C, 178! Lusambo, on the River Sankuru, Duchesne, 16!
Notes
In Hens, 159, 178, the stems are sometimes reduced to 4 in. long, and the umbel to a single head of 3–5 spikelets. In the variety robusta, K. Schum. in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 120 (i.e. Holst, 2026), the umbel is more than 2 ft. in diam. The species varies greatly in development in India; it can generally be recognised by the distant glumes and subquadrangular spikelets.

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