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Eleocharis hildebrandtii

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Eleocharis nigrescens (Nees) Steud [family CYPERACEAE]
Type of Heleocharis hildebrandtii Boeck. [family CYPERACEAE]
Type of Eleocharis hildebrandtii Boeckeler [family CYPERACEAE]
Isotype of Heleocharis hildebrandtii Boeck. [family CYPERACEAE]
Type of Eleocharis hildebrandtii Boeckeler [family CYPERACEAE]
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Name

Identification
Eleocharis hildebrandtii Boeckeler [family CYPERACEAE ] Verified by Not on sheet., Eleocharis nigrescens (Nees) Kunth [family CYPERACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on sheet.,
Related name
  • Eleocharis hildebrandtii
  • Eleocharis nigrescens
  • Isolepis unrecorded

Flora

Entry for ELEOCHARIS Hildebrandtii 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 Hildebrandtii C. B. Clarke [family CYPERACEAE], in Durand & Schinz, Conspect. Fl. Afr. v. 598.
Heleocharis Hildebrandtii Boeck. [family CYPERACEAE], in Flora, 1878, 34; K. Schum. in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 124.
Information
A glabrous annual. Stems 2–4 in. long, tufted, slender. Spikelet 1/8 in. long, cylindric, green marked with dull red. Nut-bearing glumes in many spirals, ovate, obtuse. Hypogynous bristles 0. Style-branches 3. Nut 1/2 the length of the glume, obovoid, much narrowed at the top, trigonous, smooth, white; style-base small, bulbous, not 1/2 the width of the nut.
Distribution
Zanzibar Mozamb. Dist. Kirk! Hildebrandt, 1063!

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