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Pycreus intermedius

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Name

Identification
Cyperus intermedius Steud. [family CYPERACEAE ] Pycreus intermedius (Steud.) C.B.Clarke [family CYPERACEAE ] (stored under name);
Related name
  • Cyperus intermedius
  • Pycreus intermedius
  • Pycreus vicinus
  • Pycreus flavescens

Flora

Entry for PYCREUS intermedius 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 intermedius C. B. Clarke [family CYPERACEAE]
PYCREUS lanceolatus C. B. Clarke [family CYPERACEAE], in Durand & Schinz, Conspect. Fl. Afr. v. 538; Rendle in Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw. ii. 107, but not Cyperus lanceolatus, Poir.
Cyperus intermedius Steud. [family CYPERACEAE], in Flora, 1842, 581, and Syn. Pl. Glum. ii. 5; A. Rich. Tent. Fl. Abyss. ii. 483 (but erroneously placed in Eu-Cyperus); Boeck. in Linnæa, xxxv. 450, excl. vars. β, γ.
Cyperus Eragrostis Krauss [family CYPERACEAE], in Flora, 1845, 754 in note, not of Vahl.
Cyperus lanceolatus Ridley [family CYPERACEAE], in Trans. Linn. Soc. ser. 2, Bot. ii. 125; Engl. Hochgebirgsfl. Trop. Afr. 138, not of Poiret.
Information
Annual. Stems 4–8 in. long. Leaves 2/3 as long as the stem, 1/16– 1/10 in. broad. Spikes loosely umbellate (or 1); bracts 2–3, suberect, lowest up to 4 in. long, similar to the leaves. Spikes of 3–8 clustered spikelets, ebracteolate. Spikelets 1/4– 1/3 by 1/10– 1/8 in., compressed, narrower at each end, reddish-brown, each perfecting 5–10 nuts. Glumes ovate, obtuse, boat-shaped, inflated. Nut 1/2 the length of glume, ellipsoid, brown, transversely muriculate by reason of the subpersistent ends of the small longitudinally-oblong persistent cells.
Distribution
Abyssinia Nile Land Tigre; near Jomara, Schimper, 1267! Begemeder, Schimper, 1243.Angola Lower Guinea Huilla; near Lopollo, Welwitsch, 6873!

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