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Kyllinga aromatica

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Identification
Kyllinga aromatica Ridl. [family CYPERACEAE ] Kyllinga erecta (Willd. ex Kunth) S.S.Hooper [family CYPERACEAE ] (stored under name);
Related name
  • Kyllinga erecta
  • Kyllinga aromatica

Flora

Entry for KYLLINGA polyphylla Willd. ex Kunth [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
KYLLINGA polyphylla Willd. ex Kunth [family CYPERACEAE], Enum. ii. 134. —Boeck. in Linnæa, xxxv. 409; C. B. Clarke in Durand & Schinz, Conspect. Fl. Afr. v. 531; K. Schum. in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 123.
KYLLINGA elata Boeck. [family CYPERACEAE], in Linnæa, xxxv. 420, not of Steud.
KYLLINGA macrantha Boeck. [family CYPERACEAE], in Linnæa, xxxv. 420.
KYLLINGA aromatica Ridley [family CYPERACEAE], in Trans. Linn. Soc. ser. 2, Bot. ii. 146.
KYLLINGA planiceps C. B. Clarke [family CYPERACEAE], in Durand & Schinz, Conspect. Fl. Afr. v. 531; Durand & Schinz, Études Fl. Congo, i. 279.
KYLLINGA elatior C. B. Clarke [family CYPERACEAE], in Durand & Schinz, Conspect. Fl. Afr. v. 528 partly; Rendle in Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw. ii. 104.
Information
Rhizome horizontal or obliquely descending, short, thick. Stems 10–20 in. long, triquetrous at the top. Leaves usually short, sometimes 1/6– 2/3 the length of the stem, 1/6– 1/5 in. broad. Head of 3–1 (usually 1) spikes; bracts 5–8, lowest usually exceeding 4 in. long, similar to the leaves. Spikes ovoid, 1/3 in. or more in diam., dense, green usually tinged with orange or brown. Spikelets 1/8– 1/6 in. long, lanceolate, each perfecting 1 nut. Nut-bearing glume scabrous, wingless on the keel, which is subexcurrent into a mucro. Nut less than 1/2 the length of the glume, obovoid, finally chestnut-coloured.
Distribution
British East Africa Nile Land Rabai Hills, near Mombasa, Taylor!Lower Guinea Mouth of the Congo, Smith!Zanzibar Mozamb. Dist. Hildebrandt, 1065! Boivin!Angola Lower Guinea Pungo Andongo; in fissures of rocks on the stream Malemba, near Candumba, 3500 ft., Welwitsch, 6801! Golungo Alto; near Banza de Bango, Welwitsch, 7007! Loanda, 1000 ft., Welwitsch, 6996!German East Africa Mozamb. Dist. Usaramo; Dar es Salaam, Kuntze, 212! Usambara: Sega (Magila), Volkens 66!
Distribution (external)
Abundant in the Mascarene Islands
Notes
This species hardly differs from K. melanosperma but by the more numerous bracts. As to K. elata, Steud. (Syn. Pl. Glum. ii. 70, not of Boeck.), the example of Boivin, 1676, named elata by Steudel's hand in his own herbarium, is Mariscus dregeanus, Kunth.

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