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Kyllinga leucantha

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Name

Identification
Kyllinga macrocephala A.Rich. [family CYPERACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Chermezon, H., Kyllinga leucantha Boeck. [family CYPERACEAE ]
Related name
  • Kyllinga macrocephala
  • Kyllinga leucantha
  • Kyllinga cylindrica

Flora

Entry for Kyllinga macrocephala A. Rich. [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 macrocephala A. Rich. [family CYPERACEAE], Tent. Fl. Abyss. ii. 491. —C. B. Clarke in Durand & Schinz, Conspect. Fl. Afr. v. 529 partly; K. Schum. in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 123; Durand & Schinz, Études Fl. Congo, i. 279; Engl. Hochgebirgsfl. Trop. Afr. 145.
Kyllinga leucantha Boeck. [family CYPERACEAE], in Linnæa, xxxviii. 356.
Cyperus Richardi Steud. [family CYPERACEAE], Syn. Pl. Glum. ii. 8.
Cyperi (potius quam Kyllingi) sp Benth. [family ], in Journ. Linn. Soc. xv. 507.
Information
Stem 8–12 in. long, stout, at the base decumbent for 0–1 1/2 in.; basal sheaths not torn. Leaves 2/3 the length of the stem, 1/6– 1/5 in. broad. Head of 3–1 spikes, large, straw-coloured; bracts 3–5, lowest 3 in. long, similar to the leaves. Middle spike ovoid, 1/3 in. long and upwards, dense. Spikelets 1/5 in. long, each perfecting 3–5 nuts. Nut-bearing glume ovate-lanceolate, hardly acute, obscurely ribbed, without glands; keel straw-coloured, wingless, smooth or scarcely scabrous. Nut nearly 1/2 the length of the glume, ellipsoid, yellow-brown.
Distribution
Abyssinia Nile Land Tigre; by the River Tacazze, near Tchelalchekenneh, Quartin-Dillon; Begemeder; near Senka Berr, in the valley of the Reb, 6000 ft., Schimper, 1305! and without precise locality, Schimper, 540!East Africa Mozamb. Dist. Fischer, 625!Portuguese East Africa Mozamb. Dist. Quilimane, Stuhlmann, 96!
Notes
The rhachilla disarticulates above the two lowest empty glumes of the spikelet, falling off in one piece on which the nut-bearing glumes persist— Kyllinga and Pycreus are two closely allied genera; they cannot be distinguished by the number of flowers (or nuts) to the spikelet. According to the character relied on here to separate them, K. macrocephala is an unmistakable Kyllinga .

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