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Fuirena leptostachya

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Name

Identification
Isotype of Fuirena leptostachya Oliv. [family CYPERACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Muasya AM, 1994
Related name
  • Carex unrecorded
  • Fuirena glomerata
  • Fuirena sagittata
  • Fuirena schweinfurthiana
  • Fuirena striatella
  • Fuirena ciliaris
  • Fuirena moiseri
  • Fuirena leptostachya
Common name
  • m-bi (Néa) (MALI, MANDING-BAMBARA), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 1

Flora

Entry for FUIRENA leptostachya Oliver [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 leptostachya Oliver [family CYPERACEAE], in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxix. 168, t. 108. —C. B. Clarke in Durand & Schinz, Conspect. Fl. Afr. v. 647, incl. var. β nudiflora; K. Schum. in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 126.
FUIRENA glomerata Boeck. [family CYPERACEAE], in Flora, 1879, 566, not of Lam.
FUIRENA schweinfurthiana Boeck. [family CYPERACEAE], in Flora, 1880, 438.
Fuirena sp. n. 3 T. Thoms. [family CYPERACEAE], in Speke, Journ. Append. 654.
Information
fig. B. Leaves often 4–8 in. long. Spikelets 1/4– 1/3 by 1/16– 1/10 in. Hypogynous bristles (3 interior or petals) as long as the nut, linear, with a very small lamina which is oval, or with 2 recurved teeth.
Distribution
British East Africa Nile Land Jur; Jur Ghattas, Schweinfurth, ser. iii. 190! Bongo; Gir, Schweinfurth, 2504! Madi, Speke and Grant!Nyasaland Mozamb. Dist. Tanganyika Plateau, at Fort Hill, 3500 ft., Whyte!
Notes
In Schweinfurth's 2504 I have found no hypogynous bristles, and formerly distinguished it as var. nudiflora. The plant is young, and the bristles may perhaps not yet be developped; but if there should prove to be no bristles in this plant, I should hardly esteem it as more than an accidental state of F. leptostachya .

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