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Typha angustata

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Identification
Isotype of Typha angustata Bory & Chaub. [family TYPHACEAE ] Verified by Not on sheet, Typha domingensis Pers. [family TYPHACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on sheet,
Related name
  • Typha capensis
  • Typha domingensis
  • Typha angustata
  • Typha latifolia

Flora

Entry for TYPHA angustata Bory & Chaub. [family TYPHACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of Tropical Africa, Vol 8, page 133, (1902) Author: (By N. E. Brown.)
Names
TYPHA angustata Bory & Chaub. [family TYPHACEAE], Exped. Sc. de Morée, iii. pt. 2, 338. —Rohrb. in Verhandl. Bot. Ver. Brandenb. xi. 87–89, incl. vars. leptocarpa, Rohrb. & æthiopica, Rohrb.; Kronfeld in Ver-handl. Zool.-Bot. Gesell. Wien, 1889, 159–161, t. 4, fig. 6, & t. 5, fig. 1; Schweinfurth. in Bull. Herb. Boiss. ii. Append. ii. 92; Durand & Schinz, Conspect. Fl. Afr. v. 470; Graebner in Engl. Pflanzenr. Typhaceæ, 14.
TYPHA æthiopica Kronfeld [family TYPHACEAE], l.c. 162.
TYPHA angustifolia A. Rich. [family TYPHACEAE], Tent. Fl. Abyss. ii. 350 partly; Schweinf. Pl. Nilot. 37; and in Bull. Herb. Boiss. ii. Append ii. 7; not of Linn.
Information
Plant 5–9 ft. high. Leaves 2–5 lin. broad, convex on the back at the base. Male and female spikes subequal or the male longer, 1/4–1 in. distant, very rarely contiguous. Male flowers with bracteoles varying from filiform to narrow lanceolate-spathulate, entire or toothed, acute, light brown; pollen simple. Female flowers bracteolate; bracteoles much longer than the hairs, lanceolate-spathulate or elliptic-spathulate, acute; stigmas linear, a little longer than the bracteoles; hairs simple.
Distribution
Nile Land Nubia, Kordofan and Sennar, Schweinfurth (ex Rohrbach); Bahr-el-Abiad, Hartmann (ex Rohrbach).Eritrea Nile Land Halibaret, east of Anseba, 4800 ft., Schweinfurth, 135; Ferfer, 3000 ft., Schweinfurth, 136; and Saganeiti, 7000 ft., Schweinfurth, 885, (ex Schweinfurth).Abyssinia Nile Land Tigre; streams near Jelajeranne, Schimper, 1563! Samen, Schimper, 1190 (ex Rohrbach); and without precise locality, Quartin-Dillon & Petit (ex Rohrbach).

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