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Scleria atrosanguinea

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Identification
Isotype of Scleria atrosanguinea Hochst. ex Steud. [family CYPERACEAE ] Verified by Not on sheet, Scleria bulbifera Hochst. ex A.Rich. [family CYPERACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on sheet,
Related name
  • Scleria bulbifera
  • Scleria atrosanguinea

Flora

Entry for SCLERIA bulbifera A. Rich. [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
SCLERIA bulbifera A. Rich. [family CYPERACEAE], Tent. Fl. Abyss, ii. 510. —Boeck. in Linnæa, xxxviii. 442; C. B. Clarke in Durand & Schinz, Conspect. Fl. Afr. v. 669; Engl. Hochgebirgsfl. Trop. Afr. 150; K. Schum. in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 128; Rendle in Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw. ii. 133.
SCLERIA atrosanguinea Steud. [family CYPERACEAE], Syn. Pl. Glum. ii. 175.
SCLERIA cenchroides Hochst. [family CYPERACEAE], in Flora, 1841, i. Intell. 21, not of Kunth.
SCLERIA bulbosa Ridley var. pallidiflora [family CYPERACEAE], in Trans. Linn. Soc. ser. 2, Bot. ii. 167.
Information
Stems 1–2 ft. long, each from a bulb 1/4– 1/3 in. in diam., distinct on a rhizome 1/8 in. in diam. Leaves 8–12 by 1/10– 1/6 in., broader than in the adjacent species, sometimes exceeding 1/4 in. in breadth, all springing near the base of the stem, usually nearly glabrous, sometimes with many long spreading white hairs. Panicle very narrow, 4–5 in. long, sometimes apparently a simple spike, sometimes with lower branches 1/2 in. long; bracts often longer than the suberect clusters. Spikelets 3–7 in a cluster, 1/5 in. long, chestnut and green, the bracts and lower glumes nearly always distinctly bristly. Nut 1/20 in. long, subglobose, white, reticulate and slightly verrucose-tubercled; 3 or 4 minute pores excavated in each of the 3 faces of the stalk.
Distribution
Abyssinia Nile Land Tigre; Mount Sholoda, Schimper, 327! Adowa, Quartin-Dillon & Petit! mountains near Dochli, Schimper, 1557! Begemeder; Senka Berr, Schimper, 1277! 1557! and without precise locality, Parkyns!Angola Lower Guinea Pungo Andongo; in damp meadows near Sobato de Muta-Lucala, Welwitsch, 7133!German East Africa Mozamb. Dist. Kilimanjaro; Marangu, 5500 ft., Volkens, 2113!British East Africa Nile Land Leikipia; Larabwal, Gregory, 68!Nyasaland Mozamb. Dist. Mount Zomba, 4000–6000 ft., Whyte! Mount Malosa, 4000–6000 ft., Whyte! Ndurandi, Scott-Elliot, 8460!

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