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Fimbristylis oligostachys

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Identification
Isotype of Fimbristylis oligostachys Hochst. ex A.Rich. [family CYPERACEAE ] Verified by Not on sheet, Bulbostylis hispidula (Vahl) R.W.Haines [family CYPERACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on sheet,
Related name
  • Fimbristylis hispidula
  • Scirpus purpureoater
  • Fimbristylis purpureo-atra
  • Bulbostylis hispidula
  • Fimbristylis oligostachys
  • Fimbristylis exilis
  • Isolepis unrecorded

Flora

Entry for Fimbristylis oligostachys Hochst. ex A. Rich. [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
Fimbristylis oligostachys Hochst. ex A. Rich. [family CYPERACEAE], Tent. Fl. Abyss. ii. 505.
Fimbristylis purpureo-atra Engl. [family CYPERACEAE], Hochgebirgsfl. Trop. Afr. 149; Durand & Schinz, Conspect. Fl. Afr. v. 609.
Fimbristylis exilis Durand & Schinz [family CYPERACEAE], Conspect. Fl. Afr. v. 604 partly.
Scirpus purpureo-ater Boeck. [family CYPERACEAE], in Linnæa, xxxviii. 379.
Information
Glabrous or very nearly so. Stems annual, slender, tufted, 2–5 in. long. Leaves 3/4 the length of the stem, slender, weak. Spikelets 1–4 on each stem, in one head or nearly so, chestnut or purple-black, 1/6 in. long, 5–10-flowered; bracts 2, lower 1/4–1 1/2 in. long, as though a continuation of the stem. Glumes spiral or obscurely distichous, nearly glabrous, apiculate. Style longer than the nut nearly glabrous, deciduous together with the pyramidal style-base; branches 3. Nut 2/5 the length of the glume, obovoid, trigonous, transversely wavy, yellow-brown.
Distribution
Abyssinia Nile Land near Jomara, Schimper, 1268! Begemeder, Schimper 1251!
Distribution (external)
Socotra
Notes
This may be a depauperated state of F. exilis, as see I. B. Balfour in Trans. Roy. Soc. Edin. xxxi. 307. It differs mainly by the absence of the needle-like white hairs, abundant in F. exilis .

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