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Mariscus albopilosus

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Name

Identification
Cyperus albopilosus (C.B.Clarke) Kük. [family CYPERACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Kükenthal, G., Cyperus mollipes (C.B.Clarke) K.Schum [family CYPERACEAE ] Verified by Kükenthal, G., Mariscus albopilosus C.B.Clarke [family CYPERACEAE ] Verified by Clarke, C.B.,
Related name
  • Cyperus albopilosus
  • Mariscus albopilosus
  • Cyperus mollipes

Flora

Entry for Mariscus albopilosus 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
Mariscus albopilosus C. B. Clarke [family CYPERACEAE]
Information
Stems 14 in. long, slender, at the top trigonous, densely and minutely white-hairy. Leaves 4 by 1/3 in., with their sheaths nearly glabrous, scabrous hairy towards the tip. Head 1/4– 1/3 in. in diam., dense, of numerous small white spikelets; bracts 3, spreading, the lowest up to 1 1/2 in. long, similar to the leaves, often white-hairy towards the tip. Spikelet of 3 glumes, with a rudimentary glume, deciduous, with the 1 nut above the two lowest empty (not setaceous) glumes. Nut-bearing glume ovate, scarious-white, slenderly few-nerved; rbachilla broadly winged, resembling closely the nut-bearing glume, crowned by a triangular rudiment of the uppermost glume. Nut as long as the glume broadly ellipsoid, trigonous, black, white-reticulate. Style 3-branched.
Distribution
Nyasaland Mozamb. Dist. Mount Malosa, 4000–6000 ft., Whyte! Mount Zomba, 4000–6000 ft., Whyte!

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