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Pycreus debilissimus

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Identification
Pycreus debilissimus C.B.Clarke [family CYPERACEAE ] Pycreus flavescens (Kük.) Lye [family CYPERACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Hoeselaar,K.,
Related name
  • Pycreus flavescens
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Flora

Entry for PYCREUS debilissimus 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
PYCREUS debilissimus C. B. Clarke [family CYPERACEAE], in Journ. Bot. 1896, 224.
Information
Annual, very slender, weak. Stems 3–6 in. long, capillary. Leaves few, nearly as long as the stem, setaceous, flaccid. Head 1, of 8 subsessile spikelets; bracts 2, lower 2 in. long, similar to the leaves. Spikelets 2/5 by 1/12 in., 20-flowered, chestnut-brown, compressed, somewhat turgid. Glumes ovate, obtuse, chestnut-coloured; keel chestnut-brown. Nut nearly 1/2 the length of the glume, obovoid, nearly black; outermost cells distinctly longitudinal.
Distribution
British East Africa Nile Land Tana River, Gregory, 87!

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