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Kyllinga brevifolia

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Name

Identification
Mariscus swartzii A.Dietr. [family CYPERACEAE ] Verified by C.B.Clarke, Kyllinga brevifolia Rottb. [family CYPERACEAE ] (stored under name);
Related name
  • Schoenus monocephalus
  • Kyllinga intricata
  • Schoenus coloratus
  • Kyllinga pungens
  • Kyllinga monocephala
  • Kyllinga erecta
  • Scirpus indet.
  • Mariscus swartzii
  • Cyperus obtusatus
  • Kyllinga aurata
  • Cyperus brevifolius
  • Rhynchospora berteroi
  • Schoenus pusillus
  • Kyllinga filiformis
  • Kyllinga rigidula
  • Kyllinga pumila
  • Kyllinga obtusata
  • Kyllinga melanosperma
  • Kyllinga vaginata
  • Kyllinga unrecorded
  • Kyllinga tenuis
  • Kyllinga odorata
  • Kyllinga brevifolia
  • Kyllinga intermedia
Common name
  • pasture spikesedge, Flora of North America Vol. 23
  • Asiatic greenhead sedge, Flora of North America Vol. 23
  • Perennial greenhead sedge, Flora of North America Vol. 23

Flora

Entry for KYLLINGA brevifolia Rottb. [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 brevifolia Rottb. [family CYPERACEAE], Descr. etIc. 13, t. 4, fig. 3. —Vahl, Enum. ii. 380; Kunth, Enum. ii. 130; Boeck. in Linnæa, xxxv. 424 (excl. some plants cited), and in Flora, 1881, 79; C. B. Clarke in Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. vi. 588, and in Durand & Schinz, Conspect. Fl. Afr. v. 527 (excl. Welwitsch, 6781); Urban, Symb. Antill. ii. 11; Durand & Schinz, Études Fl. Congo, i. 277?
Schœnus coloratus Linn. [family ], Sp. Pl. ed. 2, 64.
Information
Rhizome creeping, 2–8 in. long, rarely more than 1/12 in. thick. Stems usually distant, sometimes contiguous, not thickened by basal sheaths. Leaves longer than the stem or scarcely 1/3 its length, 1/8 in. broad. Head of 1 (sometimes of 2–3) spike rarely more than 1/4 in. in diam., ovoid, of many spikelets, green finally dusky brown; bracts 3–4, similar to the leaves, lowest up to 4–5 in. long, or (in the short-leaved examples) only 1–2 in. long, patent. Spikelets 1/10 in. long, each perfecting 1 nut. Nut-bearing glume acute, mostly without glands; keel not winged, nearly always scabrous. Nut 1/2– 2/3 the length of the glume, yellow-brown.
Range
Abundant throughout the hot regions of the world, but very scarce in Continental Africa.
Distribution
Niger Upper Guinea Old Calabar, Robb! Niger Expedition, without precise locality, Vogel, 37!Congo Lower Guinea Stanley Pool, Buettner, 11 (ex Durand & Schinz); Sicia, Dupuis, 21 (ex Durand & Schinz).
Notes
K. Schumann (in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 123) records K. brevifolia, Rottb. from five of his regions (including Cameroons, Gaboon, Niamniam, and Zanzibar). How far this distribution is founded on plants that I have not seen, or how far it is compiled from collections wrongly named brevifolia that I have seen, I am altogether in doubt.

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