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Scleria hildebrandtii

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Name

Identification
Scleria hildebrandtii Boeckeler [family CYPERACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Clarke, C.B., Scleria foliosa Hochst. ex A.Rich. [family CYPERACEAE ] Scleria mombasensis unrecorded [family CYPERACEAE ] Verified by Clarke, C.B.,
Related name
  • Scleria foliosa
  • Scleria hildebrandtii
  • Scleria mombasensis

Flora

Entry for SCLERIA foliosa 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 foliosa A. Rich. [family CYPERACEAE], Tent. Fl. Abyss, ii. 509. —Boeck. in Linnæa, xxxviii. 455; Ridley in Trans. Linn. Soc. ser. 2, Bot. ii. 170; Engl. Hochgebirgsfl. Trop. Afr. 150; C. B. Clarke in Durand & Schinz, Conspect. Fl. Afr. v. 670; K. Schum. in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 128; Rendle in Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw. ii. 134.
SCLERIA Dillonii Boeck. [family CYPERACEAE], in Flora, 1878, 38.
SCLERIA dumicola Ridley [family CYPERACEAE], in Trans. Linn. Soc. ser. 2, Bot. ii. 169.
SCLERIA Hildebrandtii K. Schum. [family CYPERACEAE], in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 129 partly.
Information
Lowest axillary peduncle hardly exserted from the sheath. Nut ovoid rather than ellipsoid; otherwise as S. clathrata .
Distribution
Abyssinia Nile Land damp places near Gafta, Schimper, 1332! Plain of Hamedo, 6000 ft., Schimper, 210! Shireh Province, Quartin-Dillon & Petit!Angola Lower Guinea Pungo Andongo, in wet places; between Quilanga and Pedras de Guinga, Welwitsch, 7122! and in meadows on the banks of the River Cuanza, near Muta-Lucala, Welwitsch, 7123!Zanzibar Mozamb. Dist. Taylor!British East Africa Nile Land Unyoro, Speke & Grant!German East Africa Mozamb. Dist. Usambara; Duga, Holst, 3218!
Notes
The stems vary in length from 6 to 24 in., the leaves vary up to 18 by 1/4 in. The spikelets are chestnut-purple to pale brown. Nearly the whole of the present section are exceedingly alike in general appearance; in the Shireh examples two tufts of S. foliosa are mixed with 3 of S. schimperiana, and it would be very difficult to sort them without looking at the nut.

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