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Eleocharis striata

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Identification
Eleocharis striata Hochst. ex Steud. [family CYPERACEAE ] Verified by Not on sheet., Eleocharis marginulata Hochst. [family CYPERACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on sheet.,
Related name
  • Eleocharis palustris
  • Eleocharis limosa
  • Eleocharis striata
  • Eleocharis marginulata

Flora

Entry for ELEOCHARIS marginulata Steud. [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 marginulata Steud. [family CYPERACEAE], Syn. Pl. Glum. ii. 78. —C. B. Clarke in Durand & Schinz, Conspect. Fl. Afr. v. 598.
ELEOCHARIS striata Hochst. ex Steud. [family CYPERACEAE], Syn. Pl. Glum. ii. 78.
ELEOCHARIS limosa A. Rich. [family CYPERACEAE], Tent. Fl. Abyss. ii. 496, not of Schultes.
Heleocharis marginulata Boeck. [family CYPERACEAE], in Linnæa, xxxvi. 457; Engl. Hochgebirgsfl. Trop. Afr. 149.
Heleocharis palustris Boeck. [family CYPERACEAE], in Linnæa, xxxvi. 466 partly, i.e. the African examples with 3-fid style; Engl. Hochgebirgsfl. Trop. Afr. 149 partly; Schweinf. in Bull. Herb. Boiss. ii. Append ii. 104.
Information
Glabrous. Rhizome woody. Stems 1–2 ft. long, subterete. Spikelet 1/2 in. long, dense, pale reddish-green, sometimes proliferous at the base. Nut-bearing glumes in many spirals, ovate, obtuse. Hypogynous bristles 6, 2/3 the length of the nut, retrorse-scabrous, pale rusty-brown. Style-branches 3. Nut less than 1/2 the length of the glume, trigonous, obovoid, much narrowed at the top, yellow, or greenish; style-base small, conic, pallid.
Distribution
Abyssinia Nile Land Tigre; marshes near Adowa, Schimper, 915! Shireh Province, Quartin-Dillon ! Samen; Enjedcap, Schimper, 1331! Begemeder; Begai Meda, Schimper, 1213! and without precise locality, Schimper, 828!British East Africa Nile Land marshes in Mau district, 8000 ft., Scott-Elliot, 6931! foot of Mount Kenia at Ndoro, Gregory 78! River Harrington, Gregory, 53!

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