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Eleocharis anceps

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Name

Identification
Eleocharis anceps Ridl. [family CYPERACEAE ] Eleocharis complanata Boeck. [family CYPERACEAE ] (stored under name);
Related name
  • Eleocharis anceps
  • Eleocharis complanata

Flora

Entry for ELEOCHARIS anceps C. B. Clarke [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
ELEOCHARIS anceps C. B. Clarke [family CYPERACEAE], in Durand & Schinz, Conspect. Fl. Afr. v. 596. —Rendle in Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw. ii. 121.
Heleocharis anceps Ridley [family CYPERACEAE], in Trans. Linn. Soc. ser. 2, Bot. ii. 148.
Information
A glabrous annual. Stems tufted, 4–6 in. long, obscurely flattened. Spikelet 1/5 in. long, subcylindric or narrow-ellipsoid, many-flowered, yellow-green with dull red marks. Nut-bearing glumes in many spirals, obtuse. Hypogynous bristles 0. Style-branches 3. Nut hardly 1/2 the length of the glume, obovoid, only slightly narrowed towards the truncate top, acutely 3-ribbed, smooth, white; style-base bulbous, rather large, 3/4 the width of the nut.
Distribution
Angola Lower Guinea Pungo Andongo; damp sandy places on the banks of the River Cuanza near Conda, Welwitsch, 6817! and in damp woods between Mopopa and Sansamanda, Welwitsch, 7170!

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