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Pycreus pumilus

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Name

Identification
Isotype of Cyperus truncatulus Steud. [family CYPERACEAE ] Verified by Not on sheet, Pycreus pumilus (L.) Nees [family CYPERACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on sheet,
Related name
  • Cyperus pumilis
  • Pycreus nitens
  • Pycreus pumilus
  • Cyperus truncatulus
  • Cyperus commutatus
  • Cyperus nitens
  • Cyperus gymnoleptus
  • Cyperus laxiusculus
  • Cyperus pumilus
  • Cyperus patens

Flora

Entry for Pycreus pumilus Nees [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 pumilus Nees [family CYPERACEAE], in Linnæa, ix. 283. —C. B. Clarke in Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. vi. 591.
Cyperus hyalinus Vahl [family CYPERACEAE], Enum. ii. 329; Kunth, Enum. ii. 3; Boeck. in Linnæa, xxxv. 482.
Cyperus pumilus Nees [family CYPERACEAE], in Wight, Contrib. 74, excl. all syn.; Kunth, Enum. ii. 4 mostly, not of Linn.
Information
Annual; stems cæspitose, 2–10 in. long. Leaves basal, often as long as the stem, 1/10– 1/6 in. broad. Umbel of spikes simple, rays 4–7; bracts 3–5, lowest up to 6 in. long, similar to the leaves. Spikelets 5–10 in a spike, 1/3 by 1/8 in., 8-flowered, much compressed, straw-coloured or pale brown, glistening. Glumes broad-ovate, keel excurrent in a mucro, strongly 2–3-ribbed on each face. Nut 1/2– 2/3 the length of the glume, ellipsoid, flat, ashy-black.
Distribution
Mozamb. Dist. Mozambique, Kuntze, 303!
Distribution (external)
Madagascar
South India
Timor
Notes
It is unfortunate that, in transferring this species and the last to Pycreus, Nees should have interchanged their Linnean specific names under Cyperus. The species is a striking one; plentiful in the Linnean and old collections; then hardly collected for a century; now very rarely received.

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