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Hypolytrum heteromorphum

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Filed as Hypolytrum testui Cherm. [family CYPERACEAE]
Isotype of Hypolytrum heteromorphum Nelmes [family CYPERACEAE]
Holotype of Hypolytrum heteromorphum Nelmes [family CYPERACEAE]
Filed as Hypolytrum purpurascens Cherm. [family CYPERACEAE]
Isotype of Hypolytrum heteromorphum Nelmes [family CYPERACEAE]
Type of Hypolytrum heteromorphum Nelmes [family CYPERACEAE]
Filed as Hypolytrum heteromorphum Nelmes [family CYPERACEAE]
Hypolytrum heteromorphum Nelmes; original illustration from FWTA
Filed as Hypolytrum heteromorphum Nelmes [family CYPERACEAE]
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Identification
Hypolytrum heteromorphum Nelmes [family CYPERACEAE ]
Related name
  • Hypolytrum heteromorphum

Flora

Entry for Hypolytrum heteromorphum Nelmes [family CYPERACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of West Tropical Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of West Tropical Africa, Vol 3, Part 2,
Names
Hypolytrum heteromorphum Nelmes [family CYPERACEAE], in Kew Bull. 9: 522 (1955).
Hypolytrum africanum [family CYPERACEAE], of F.T.A. 8: 488: F.W.T.A., ed. 1, 2: 472: Nelmes & Baldwin in Amer. J. Bot. 39: 371 (1952), partly
Information
Differs from all the following species in the flowering spikes being several times longer than broad; on wet rocks and other damp places in forest.
Habitat
; on wet rocks and other damp places in forest.
Distribution
Guin.: Erimakuna, Sulimania (Mar.) Sc. Elliot 5396! Ziama (Feb., Apr.) Adam 3715!S. L.: Kamalu (May) Thomas 345! Bure, nr. Mange (Jan.) Jordan 850! Makonde (Apr.) Sc. Elliot 5686! Ndilajula, nr. Njala (Feb.) Deighton 1078! Messima Crim (Jan.) Morton 8 Gledhill SL 1698!Lib.: Nabenah, Cape Mount Dist. (Apr.) Dinklage 2584! Ganta, Sanokwele Disk. (Dec., Jan.) Harley 796! Baldwin 14050! Webo (Apr.) Dinklage 2653! Cavally R. (Mar.) Bernardi 3415!Iv. C.: Taï (Jan.) Lorougnon 1272! Troya, Taï to Tabou (Mar.) Leeuwenberg 3553! Nigbi II, nr. Soubré (Nov.) de Wilde 3275! 56 km. N. of Sassandra, E. of Beyo (Jan.) Leeuwenberg 2546! Agbo (Jan.) Chev. 16611!Ghana: Kakumdu (Jan.) Hall 2856! Agboko to Dedesa, Afram Plains (May) Kitson 1125!S. Nig.: Onitsha Barter 1575! Oban Rock, Oban (Mar.) Coombe 189! Kwa Falls, Calabar (Mar.) Brenan et al. 9251!
Distribution (external)
E. Cameroun
Gabon
Congo
Central
African Rep.
Uganda
Tanzania

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