Entry for BULBOSTYLIS pallescens (Lye) R. Haines [family CYPERACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Somalia
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Somalia, Vol 4, (1995) Author: by K. A. Lye [updated by M. Thulin 2008]
Names
BULBOSTYLIS pallescens(Lye) R. Haines [family CYPERACEAE], (1983);
Abildgaardia pallescensLye [family CYPERACEAE], (1982). [type as above]
Information
Slender tufted annual; stems 5–12 cm long and 0.3–0.5 mm thick, scabrid. Leaf-blades 1–5 cm long and 0.3–0.7 mm wide, densely scabrid on margin and ribs; leaf-sheaths straw-coloured to light brown, densely scabrid. Inflorescence a solitary terminal cluster (5–10 mm wide), of 2–5 sessile spikelets; major inflorescence-bract filiform, 5–10 mm long. Spikelets 3–6 x 2-4 mm, ovoid, greyish. Glumes 2.6–3 mm long, ovate, pubescent, greyish or straw-coloured, but often reddish-brown below; midrib green, excurrent in a distinct mucro. Nutlet 0.7–0.8 x 0.4–0.5 mm, triangular, light brown with the base of the style persisting as a darker knob, indistinctly reticulate with rectangular surface-cells.
