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Kyllinga macrocephala

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Name

Identification
Kyllinga macrocephala A.Rich. [family CYPERACEAE ] Verified by Not on sheet, Kyllinga bulbosa P. Beauv. [family CYPERACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on sheet,
Related name
  • Kyllinga aurea
  • Kyllinga microcormus
  • Kyllinga exigua
  • Kyllinga macrocephala
  • Kyllinga alba
  • Cyperus unrecorded
  • Kyllinga monocephala
  • Kyllinga appendiculata
  • Kyllinga albiceps
  • Kyllinga leucocephala
  • Kyllinga leucantha
  • Kyllinga bulbosa
  • Kyllinga eximia
  • Kyllinga cylindrica
  • Kyllinga comosipes

Flora

Entry for KYLLINGA melanosperma Nees [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 melanosperma Nees [family CYPERACEAE], in Linnæa, ix. 286. —Nees in Wight, Contrib. 91; Boeck. in Linnæa, xxxv. 419; Oliver in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxix. 166; C. B. Clarke in Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. vi. 588, in Durand & Schinz, Conspect. Fl. Afr. v. 529, and in Dyer, Fl. Cap. vii. 153; K. Schum. in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 123.
KYLLINGA macrocephala T. Thoms. [family CYPERACEAE], in Speke, Nile, Append. 654, not of A. Rich.
Information
Rhizome thick, 1/2–1 1/2 in. long. Stems 20–30 in. long, triquetrous under the inflorescence. Leaves much shorter than the stems, often 4–6 in. long, 1/6– 1/5 in. broad. Head of 1 spike, ovoid, dull green, 1/3 in. long and more; bracts 3–4, similar to the leaves, the lowest often 4 in. long. Spikelets numerous, 1/8– 1/6 in. long, each producing 1 (very rarely 2) nut. Nut-bearing glume ovate, acute; keel not winged, almost smooth. Nut 1/2– 2/3 the length of the glume, narrowly obovoid, finally black.
Distribution
British East Africa Nile Land Madi, Speke & Grant, 693!Congo Lower Guinea Bingila, Dupuis!Congo South Central Lusambo, on the Sankuru River, Duchesne, 11! 23!Zanzibar Mozamb. Dist. Stuhlmann, 93!Nyasaland Mozamb. Dist. Plains of Zomba, 2500–3000 ft., Whyte! Namasi, near Zomba, Cameron, 89!
Distribution (external)
South Africa
Madagascar
India
Malaya
Notes
The plants with the ticket “Stuhlmann, 93,” are by some error in distribution marked Rhyncospora echinophora, K. Schum.; but I have not found where that Rhyncospora is published. In Cameron, 89, the stems exceed 5 ft. in height; the heads are young and I do not see how they differ from young heads of K. melanosperma .

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