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Scleria schimperiana

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Name

Identification
Scleria schimperiana Boeck. [family CYPERACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on sheet, Scleria schimperiana Boeck. [family CYPERACEAE ] Verified by Not on sheet,
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Flora

Entry for SCLERIA schimperiana Boeck. [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 schimperiana Boeck. [family CYPERACEAE], in Linnæa, xxxviii. 466. —Engl. Hochgebirgsfl. Trop. Afr. 150; C. B. Clarke in Durand & Schinz, Conspect. Fl. Afr. v. 674.
Information
Slightly hairy or glabrate. Rhizome 0. Stems 16 in. long. Leaves 12 by 1/6 in., tapering at the tip. Lowest axillary peduncle exserted 1–2 in., flexuose, slender, thickened triangular at the top, carrying 3–5 nuts. Female spikelets 1/4 in. long, chestnut-brown. Nut large, depressed-globose, smooth, white; 3 lobes of the disc small, oblong, obtuse, pallid.
Distribution
Abyssinia Nile Land Begemeder; Senka Berr, 7500 ft., Schimper, 1235!

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