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Kyllinga obtusata

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Identification
Kyllinga obtusata [family CYPERACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Tucker, G.C.,
Related name
  • Kyllinga obtusata
  • Kyllinga vaginata
  • Kyllinga unrecorded
  • Kyllinga pungens
  • Kyllinga brevifolia
  • Kyllinga erecta
  • Cyperus obtusatus

Flora

Entry for KYLLINGA pungens Link [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 pungens Link [family CYPERACEAE], Hort. Berol. i. 326. —Kunth, Enum. ii. 128; C. B. Clarke in Durand & Schinz, Conspect. Fl. Afr. v. 532; K. Schum. in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 123; Urban, Symb. Antill. ii. 12; Rendle in Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw. ii. 104.
KYLLINGA obtusata Presl [family CYPERACEAE], Rel. Haenk. i. 183; Kunth, Enum. ii. 128; Boeck. in Linnæa, xxxv. 418; Ridley in Trans. Linn. Soc. ser. 2, Bot. ii. 146.
KYLLINGA brevifolia Boeck. [family CYPERACEAE], in Linnæa, xxxv. 425 (as to Barter 1586 only),and in Flora, 1879, 515; K. Schum. in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 123 partly.
Information
Rhizome horizontal, thick, closely covered by ovate rigid brown scales. Stems 8–18 in. long, rather stout, contiguous and uniseriate on the rhizome. Leaves 1/8– 1/6 in. broad, less than 1/2 the length of the stem, often quite short. Head of 1 spike, 1/4– 1/3 in. in diam., dense, subglobose; bracts generally 4, sometimes 5, 1–4 in. long, similar to the leaves. Spikelets 1/10– 1/8 in. long, each perfecting 1 nut. Keel of the nut-bearing glume slightly scabrous, not winged. Nut scarcely 1/2 the length of the glume, finally black.
Range
Abundant in South America; very rare in China and Malaya.
Distribution
Niger Upper Guinea Nupe, Barter, 1586!British East Africa Nile Land Bongo; by the Matju River, Schweinfurth, 4032!Gaboon Lower Guinea near the Ogowe River, Soyaux, 285!German East Africa Mozamb. Dist. Unyamwezi; Uyui, Taylor!Congo Lower Guinea Kisantu, on the Inkissi River, Gillet, 1010! 1022!Angola Lower Guinea Pungo Andongo; in wet places on the Calemba Islands, in the River Cuanza, near Condo, Welwitsch, 6800 partly!Nyasaland Mozamb. Dist. Karonga, Scott!
Notes
The African specimens of this plant have been marked repeatedly K. brevifolia by Boeckeler, and authors have published accordingly. It differs much from K. brevifolia in the rhizome, which is much thicker, with crowded uniseriate stems and imbricated one-sided almost horny scales. It has also very constantly, 4 equal subverticillate bracts (with sometimes a fifth small one added), whereas in K. brevifolia the bracts are 3, and the lowest much the longest.

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