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Pycreus capillaris

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Identification
Cyperus vulgaris Kunth [family CYPERACEAE ] Cyperus lanceolatus Sieber [family CYPERACEAE ] Pycreus capillaris Nees [family CYPERACEAE ] Verified by Charles Baron Clarke, Pycreus flavidus (Retz.) T.Koyama [family CYPERACEAE ] Verified by Wessel Marais, Isotype of Cyperus vulgaris Sieber ex Kunth [family CYPERACEAE ] Cyperus flavidus Retz. [family CYPERACEAE ] (stored under name);
Related name
  • Pycreus capillaris
  • Cyperus vulgaris
  • Cyperus nilagiricus
  • Cyperus lanceolatus
  • Pycreus globosus
  • Pycreus flavidus
  • Kobresia esenbeckii
  • Cyperus atroferrugineus
  • Cyperus flavidus

Flora

Entry for Pycreus globosus C. B. Clarke var. nilagirica [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
Pycreus globosus C. B. Clarke var. nilagirica [family CYPERACEAE], in Durand & Schinz, Conspect. Fl. Afr. v. 537.
Pycreus capillaris C. B. Clarke var. nilagirica [family CYPERACEAE], in Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. vi. 592.
Cyperus nilagiricus Hochst. ex Steud. [family CYPERACEAE], Syn. Pl. Glum. ii. 2; Boeck. in Linnæa, xxxv. 457.
Cyperus globosus Boeck. [family CYPERACEAE], in Flora, 1879, 546; K. Schum. in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 117.
Cyperus polystachyos C. B. Clarke var. ferruginea [family CYPERACEAE], in Journ. Linn. Soc. xxi. 54 partly.
Information
Stolons 0. Stems 1–2 ft. long, annual or biennial, tufted. Leaves 2/3 the length of the stem, rarely exceeding 1/8 in. in breadth, much enrolled in all the dried examples. Umbel 1–6 in. in diam., simple or compound, or one compound head; bracts 3–5, lowest overtopping the inflorescence, similar to the leaves. Spikelets loosely spicate, 1/4– 3/4 by 1/12– 1/10 in., strongly compressed, from shining dark brown to nearly black, 8–30-flowered, with parallel sides. Glumes rigid, ovate, scarcely acute. Nut 1/2 the length of the glume, ellipsoid, apiculate, nearly black, superficial cells small, quadrate.
Range
Also in Bourbon, South-east Asia, Malaya and Australia.
Distribution
French Guinea Upper Guinea Farana, near the sources of the Niger, 3500 ft., Scott-Elliott, 5334!British East Africa Nile Land Jur; Jur Ghattas, Schweinfurth, 1462! Buddu district, Scott-Elliot, 7516!Congo South Central Ntenke, Briart!German East Africa Mozamb. Dist. Urundi district, 4000–5000 ft., Scott-Elliot, 8182!Cameroons Upper Guinea Yaunde, 2600 ft., Zenker & Staudt, 336!Nyasaland Mozamb. Dist. Shire Highlands, Buchanan! Scott-Elliot, 8508! and without precise locality, Buchanan, 1452!
Notes
The species nilagiricus was originally grounded on the black-chestnut colour, while my var. nilagirica includes all the narrow spikeleted heads whatever the colour. All the Tropical African material has narrow spikelets with exactly parallel sides, and is chestnut-brown to chestnut-black. P. betschuanus differs in the prominent long stolons. The Cameroon plant, issued from Berlin as Cyperus globosus, Allioni is exactly the common form of C. nilagiricus in India.

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