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Scirpus pilosus

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Filed as Fuirena umbellata Rottb. [family CYPERACEAE]

Type? of Scirpus pilosus Thunb. [family CYPERACEAE]

Filed as Scirpus pilosus Thunb. [family CYPERACEAE]

Type? of Scirpus pilosus Retz. [family CYPERACEAE]

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Fuirena umbellata Rottb. [family CYPERACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by C.B. Clarke, 1892 Fuirena pentagona Schumach. [family CYPERACEAE ] Verified by Not on Sheet, Scirpus pilosus Not on sheet [family CYPERACEAE ] Verified by Not on Sheet,

Flora

Entry for FIMBRISTYLIS pilosa Vahl [family CYPERACEAE]

Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)

Flora of Tropical Africa

Reference Sources

Flora of Tropical Africa, Vol 8, page 264, (1902) Author: (By C. B. Clarke.)

FIMBRISTYLIS pilosa Vahl [family CYPERACEAE], Enum. ii. 290. —Schumach. Beskr. Guin. Pl. 32; Kunth, Enum. ii. 235 in note (i.e. his plant “spicis robustioribus ellipticis obtusis”); Rendle in Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw. ii. 122.

FIMBRISTYLIS castanea Boeck. var. thonningiana [family CYPERACEAE], in Linnæa, xxxvii. 19.

FIMBRISTYLIS communis Ridley [family CYPERACEAE], in Trans. Linn. Soc. ser. 2, Bot. ii. 150 partly; K. Schum. in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 124.

Scirpus pilosus Poir. [family CYPERACEAE], Encycl. Suppl. v. 101, not of Retz.

Stem hairy at the top. Umbel of 6–20 spikelets, nearly simple. Spikelets 1/5 in. wide, cuboid. Glumes quadrate, often pubescent on the back. Style 2-fid. Nut obovoid, biconvex, shining white, smooth, somewhat reticulate but not ribbed; otherwise as F. diphylla .

Upper Guinea Without precise locality, Thonning! Isert! Hofmanbarg!British East Africa Nile Land Mombasa, Taylor.Angola Lower Guinea Pungo Andongo; Pedras de Guinga, Welwitsch, 6827 partly!

In this genus, no name has been so misapplied and confused both in the textbooks and in the herbaria as F. pilosa. The hairy forms (or varieties) of F. diphylla are numerous and abundant, especially in Malaya; and these are often named in herbaria, probably by guess from the name, F. pilosa, Vahl (which they are not); and this is the plant reduced correctly by Kunth, Boeckeler, &c. to F. diphylla, Vahl. The true F. pilosa, Vahl has not been much collected, and differs much, essentially in the non-trabeculate nut. The name F. pilosa, K. Schumann, is merely a book synonym for the earlier F. africana, Durand & Schinz, below, a species of another section.