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Kyllinga controversa

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Identification
Cyperus controversus (Steud.) Mattf.&Kük. [family CYPERACEAE ] Kyllinga controversa Steud. [family CYPERACEAE ] Verified by C.B.Clarke, Kyllinga welwitschii Ridl. [family CYPERACEAE ] (stored under name);
Related name
  • Kyllinga welwitschii
  • Kyllinga controversa
  • Kyllinga alba
  • Kyllinga blepharinota
  • Kyllinga monocephala
  • Kyllinga triceps
  • Cyperus controversus

Flora

Entry for KYLLINGA controversa Steud. [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 controversa Steud. [family CYPERACEAE], Syn. Pl. Glum. ii. 70. —Boeck. in Linnæa, xxxv. 429; C. B. Clarke in Durand & Schinz, Conspect. Fl. Afr. v. 527.
KYLLINGA alba Steud. [family CYPERACEAE], in Flora, 1842, 597; A. Rich. Tent. Fl. Abyss. ii. 494; not of Nees.
KYLLINGA monocephala Hochst. [family CYPERACEAE], in Flora, 1844, 102; not of Rottb.
KYLLINGA cæspitosa Ridley [family CYPERACEAE], in Trans. Linn. Soc. ser. 2, Bot. ii. 145 partly.
KYLLINGA triceps Schweinf. [family CYPERACEAE], in Bull. Herb. Boiss. ii. Append. ii. 49, not of Vahl.
KYLLINGA dorsocrena Nees ex Boeck. [family CYPERACEAE], in Linnæa, xxxv. 430.
Information
Roots fibrous, or root-stock thick and less than 1/3 in. long. Stems closely cæspitose, somewhat thickened at the base. Leaves often as long as the stem, 1/8– 1/6 in. broad. Head globose, of 1 spike, 1/4– 1/3 in. in diam., pale brown when dry; bracts 3–4, lowest often 3–6 in. long, similar to the leaves, suberect at the base. Spikelets numerous, 1/8 in. long, each perfecting 1 nut. Nut-bearing glume acuminate, strongly winged on the keel, wing ciliate. Nut 1/2 the length of the glume, obovoid, brown becoming black.
Distribution
Cameroons Upper Guinea at the edge of the River Lobe, near Batanga, Bates, 143!Eritrea Nile Land Mogod Valley, 4500 ft., Schweinfurth & Riva, 1580!Angola Lower Guinea Pungo Andongo; in damp forest-meadows between Bumba and Condo, 3300 ft., Welwitsch, 6798! Muta Lucala, Welwitsch, 6790 partly! between Lombe and Muta Lucala, Welwitsch, 6796 partly!Portuguese East Africa Mozamb. Dist. near Lupata, Kirk!Abyssinia Nile Land Tigre; Hamedo, 6000 ft., Schimper, 856! hills near Enderder, Schimper, 581! and without precise locality, Schimper, 296! 836! Quartin-Dillon & Petit!

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