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Diplacrum africanum

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Type? of Diplacrum africanum C.B.Clarke [family CYPERACEAE]

Filed as Diplacrum africanum C.B.Clarke [family CYPERACEAE]

Isotype of Diplacrum africanum C.B.Clarke [family CYPERACEAE]

Isotype of Scleria africana Benth. [family CYPERACEAE]

Isolectotype of Diplacrum africanum C.B.Clarke [family CYPERACEAE]

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Diplacrum africanum C.B.Clarke [family CYPERACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Stanfield, D.P., 1963

Flora

Entry for DIPLACRUM africanum C. B. Clarke [family CYPERACEAE]

Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)

Flora of Tropical Africa

Reference Sources

Flora of Tropical Africa, Vol 8, page 264, (1902) Author: (By C. B. Clarke.)

DIPLACRUM africanum C. B. Clarke [family CYPERACEAE], in Durand & Schinz, Conspect. Fl. Afr. v. 668. —K. Schum. in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 129.

DIPLACRUM pygmæum Boeck. [family CYPERACEAE], in Linnæa, xxxviii. 434 (excl. the Australian examples), and in Flora, 1879, 569; Oliver in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxix. 170, not of Nees.

DIPLACRUM caricinum T. Thoms. [family CYPERACEAE], in Speke, Nile, Append. 654, not of R. Br.

A weak, nearly glabrous annual. Stems tufted, 2–5 in. long, slender, leafy their whole length. Leaves 1–1 1/2 by 1/8– 1/5 in., tip rather suddenly acuminated. Inflorescence of minute axillary heads of spikelets, often continued nearly to the base of the stem; lower heads on peduncles rarely exserted so much as 1/6 in. Spikelets 1/12– 1/10 in. long, ovate-lanceolate, green or yellowish. Glume to female flower ovate-lanceolate, entire at the tip, 3-nerved, concave at the base. Nut minute, subglobose, white, with 10–14 longitudinal striæ from summit to base which do not anastomose.

Senegambia Upper Guinea Heudelot, 675!British East Africa Nile Land Jur; Jur Ghattas, Schweinfurth, 2573! Madi, Speke & Grant!Sierra Leone Upper Guinea Scott-Elliot, 4341!Niger Upper Guinea Nupe, Barter, 1041!