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Pycreus sulcinux

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Name

Identification
Pycreus sulcinux (C.B.Clarke) C.B.Clarke [family CYPERACEAE ] (stored under name); Cyperus sulcinux C.B.Clarke [family CYPERACEAE ] Verified by Clarke, C.B.,
Related name
  • Pycreus sulcinux
  • Cyperus sulcinux

Flora

Entry for Pycreus sulcinux 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 sulcinux C. B. Clarke [family CYPERACEAE], in Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. vi. 593. —C. B. Clarke in Durand & Schinz, Conspect. Fl. Afr. v. 542.
Cyperus sulcinux C. B. Clarke [family CYPERACEAE], in Journ. Linn. Soc. xxi. 56, and xxv. 80; K. Schum. in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 117.
Information
Annual. Stems 3–9 in. long, tufted. Leaves basal, often as long as the stem, 1/8– 1/6 in. broad, weak. Spikes in a simple umbel 3–6 in. in diam.; rays 3–7; bracts 3–5, lowest exceeding the umbel, similar to the leaves. Spikelets 4–11 in the loose spike, up to 1/2 by 1/6 in., 8–28-flowered, flattened, straw-coloured to yellow. Glumes somewhat distant, ovate, subacute. Nut 2/5 the length of the glume, oblong-obovoid, asymmetric, the face next the rhachilla being straight or somewhat concave.
Distribution
Nyasaland Mozamb. Dist. Umbaka River, Scott! Zomba Rock, Whyte!
Distribution (external)
India
Malaya
Notes
The spikelets of the Nyasaland specimens are considerably finer and broader than anything hitherto referred to P. polystachyos; they are larger even than in P. ferrugineus .

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