Cyperus nigripes(C.B.Clarke) Kük. [family CYPERACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on Sheet, Kyllinga nigripesC.B.Clarke [family CYPERACEAE ] Verified by Not on Sheet,
Related name
Kyllinga leucocephala
Cyperus nigripes
Kyllinga nigripes
Kyllinga alba
Kyllinga unrecorded
Flora
Entry for Kyllinga nigripes C. B. Clarke [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 nigripesC. B. Clarke [family CYPERACEAE]
Information
Roots fibrous, wiry. Stems 12–14 in. long, thickened at the base by the torn black basal sheaths 1–1 1/4 in. long and very harsh rigid. Leaves as long as the stem, 1/6 in. broad. Head of 1 spike, 1/3 in. in diam., ovoid, dense, straw-coloured; bracts 3, lowest 2 1/2 in. long, similar to the leaves. Spikelets 1/6– 1/5 in. long, each usually perfecting 2 nuts. Nut-bearing glume elliptic-lanceolate, subacute, strongly 4-ribbed on each side; keel wingless and smooth above, with short very contiguous cilia coalescing almost into a wing in the lower half. Nut 1/2 as long as glume, ellipsoid, quite black.
