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Fimbristylis barbata

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Identification
Scirpus capillaris L. [family CYPERACEAE ] (stored under name); Fimbristylis barbata Benth. [family CYPERACEAE ] Verified by Henry Trimen, Bulbostylis barbata (Rottb.) C.B.Clarke [family CYPERACEAE ] Verified by Charles Dennis Adams, Bulbostylis capillaris (L.) C.B.Clarke [family CYPERACEAE ]
Related name
  • Bulbostylis capillaris
  • Scirpus capillaris
  • Fimbristylis barbata
  • Bulbostylis barbata

Flora

Entry for BULBOSTYLIS trabeculata 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
BULBOSTYLIS trabeculata C. B. Clarke [family CYPERACEAE], in Durand & Schinz, Conspect. Fl. Afr. v. 616. —Rendle in Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw. ii. 126.
Fimbristylis barbata Ridley [family CYPERACEAE], in Trans. Linn. Soc. ser. 2, Bot. ii. 152.
Information
Annual. Stems 2–6 in. long, slender, at the top glabrous. Leaves 1–2 in. long, setaceous; sheaths with long white hairs in the throat. Spikes of 3–8 spikelets, simply umbelled, chestnut-coloured; bracts small. Spikelets hardly 1/5 in. long, narrow-elliptic. Glumes ovate, acuminate, with a small mucro, pubescent. Style 3-fid. Nut 1/3– 2/3 the length of the glume, round-trigonous, narrowly obovoid, somewhat narrowed at the top, pale brown, with about 15 slender longitudinal striations, and trabeculate horizontally between the striæ; style-base left on the nut as a small depressed button.
Distribution
Angola Lower Guinea Loanda; on the Island of Casanga, Welwitsch, 6982! sandy shore of Praia de Zamba Grande and Maianga d'El Rei, Welwitsch, 7000! Mossamedes; Cabo Negro, on the banks of the River Caroca, Welwitsch, 6962!
Notes
The separate heads of spikelets (here usually umbelled) resemble greatly the head of B. barbata (always solitary); the marking of the nut differs.

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