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Fuirena ciliaris

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Name

Identification
Fuirena ciliaris (L.) Roxb. [family CYPERACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on sheet., Fuirena claviseta Peter [family CYPERACEAE ] Verified by Raynal, J.,
Related name
  • Carex unrecorded
  • Fuirena angolensis
  • Scirpus ciliaris
  • Fuirena glomerata
  • Fuirena ciliaris
  • Unknown
  • Fuirena leptostachya
  • Fuirena hildebrandtii
  • Fuirena ciliata
  • Fuirena claviseta
  • Fuirena
  • Fuirena bullifera
  • Fuirena umbellata
  • Fuirena striatella
  • Fuirena rottboellii
Common name
  • sit (JB) (SENEGAL, DIOLA), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1

Flora

Entry for FUIRENA glomerata Lam. [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
FUIRENA glomerata Lam. [family CYPERACEAE], Ill. i. 150. —Kunth, Enum. ii. 184; Benth. in Hook. Niger Fl. 553; Boeck. in Peters, Reise Mozamb. Bot. 545, in Linnæa, xxxvii. 107; Ridley in Trans. Linn. Soc. ser. 2, Bot. ii. 160; C. B. Clarke in Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. vi. 666, and in  Durand & Schinz, Conspect. Fl. Afr. v. 646; Rendle in Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw. ii. 128.
FUIRENA canescens Vahl [family CYPERACEAE], Enum. ii. 385.
FUIRENA ciliaris Roxb. [family CYPERACEAE], Fl. Ind. i. 180; K. Schum. in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 126.
FUIRENA ochreata Nees [family CYPERACEAE], in Linnæa, ix. 288; Kunth, Enum. ii. 184.
FUIRENA ciliata Steud. [family CYPERACEAE], Syn. Pl. Glum. ii. 126.
FUIRENA Hildebrandtii Boeck. [family CYPERACEAE], in Flora, 1882, 15.
Scirpus ciliaris Linn. [family CYPERACEAE], Mant. 182.
Information
Annual, hairy. Stems 4–16 in. long, rather slender. Leaves 4–6 by 1/5 in. Panicle oblong, thin, of a few often approximated clusters. Spikelets 1/3– 1/2 by 1/8– 1/6 in. Glumes dark green to dull brown, 3-nerved, keel excurrent in a long bristle. Hypogynous bristles 3 or 6; outer (sepals) linear or 0; 3 inner (petals) as long as the nut, quadrate, toothed, brown, on a long linear claw, falling with the nut, 3-nerved. Nut 1/2 the length of the glume, ovoid, triquetrous, acuminate at the top and base, smooth, pallid; beak cylindric, very narrow. Style 3-branched.
Range
Also in East Asia and Australia
Distribution
Senegambia Upper Guinea near Richard Toll, Roger! and without precise locality, Leprieur! Heudelot, 556!British East Africa Nile Land Sabaki River, Gregory! Mombasa, Taylor!Angola Lower Guinea Loanda; at Represa de Maghelaos, rare, Welwitsch, 7107!Zanzibar Mozamb. Dist. Bojer!Sierra Leone Upper Guinea Mahela, Scott-Elliot, 3982!Gold Coast Upper Guinea Accra, Don! Brown, 365!Lagos Island Upper Guinea Barter, 2224!German East Africa Mozamb. Dist. Usambara, Holst, 2040! 2737!Portuguese East Africa Mozamb. Dist. Mozambique, Peters! Quilimane, Kirk! Lower Zambesi; Shupanga, Kirk! Stewart!
Distribution (external)
Madagascar
India

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