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Kyllinga melanosperma

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Identification
Kyllinga melanosperma Nees [family CYPERACEAE ]
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Flora

Entry for KYLLINGA melanosperma Nees [family CYPERACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Capensis
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Capensis, Vol 7, page 149, (1900) Author: (By C. B. CLARKE.)
Names
KYLLINGA melanosperma Nees [family CYPERACEAE], in Wight, Contrib. 91;—Boeck. in Linnæa, xxxv. 419; C. B. Clarke in Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. vi. 588.
Information
stems 18 in. long, slender, hardly triquetrous; bracts 4–3, 1/6 in. broad; head solitary, ovoid; keel of fertile glume often scabrous; nut finally black [otherwise as K. elatior, Kunth]. null
Range
Also in East Tropical Africa, Mascarene Islands, Indian Peninsula, and Malaya.
Distribution
CENTRAL REGION Graaff Reinet Div.; Sunday River, Bolus!COAST REGION Albany Div.; Assegai Bosch, near Sidbury, Burchell, 4173! Brookhuizens Poort, near Grahamstown, 2000 ft., MacOwan, 673!EASTERN REGION Tembuland; Bazeia, 2000 ft., Baur, 46! Griqualand East; near Clydesdale, 2500 ft., Tyson, 2864! 2865! Natal; Durban Flat, Wood, 4100! Newcastle, Buchanan, 188! Howick, 1000 ft., Junod, 223! and without precise locality, Rehmann, 8596! Buchanan, 325! 326! 327!KALAHARI REGION Transvaal, Fehr!

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