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CYPERUS angolensis 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
CYPERUS angolensis Boeck. [family CYPERACEAE], in Flora, 1880, 435. —Durand & Schinz, Études Fl. Congo, i. 283.
CYPERUS ochrocephalus C. B. Clarke [family CYPERACEAE], in Trans. Linn. Soc. ser. 2, Bot. iv. 53; Rendle in Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw. ii. 112; not Ryncospora ochrocephala, Boeck.
Information
Rhizome oblique, 4 by 1/8– 1/6 in., clothed by stout ovate acute striate pale brown scales 1/2– 2/3 in. long. Stem solitary on the rhizome, 4–12 in. long. Leaves often as long as the stem, 1/6 in. broad. Bracts and head as of C. compactus, Lam.
Distribution
Congo Lower Guinea Kimuenza, Gillet, 1740!Congo South Central Zenze, Laurent! Mukenge, Pogge, 1604! 1605! Mpala, Descamps, 10! Wba Kionde, Dupuis! Mission Caba, Zilmann, 14! and without precise locality, Dewèvre, 275!Nyasaland Mozamb. Dist. Mount Mlanji, Whyte! Mount Zomba, 3000–6000 ft., Whyte! Mount Malosa, 4000–6000 ft., Whyte!Angola Lower Guinea Huilla; on dry hills near Lake Ivantala, 5000 ft., Welwitsch, 6838! Golungo Alto; Sobato de Bumba, Welwitsch, 6813! marshy banks of the River Quiapoze, Welwitsch, 7014! Malange, Mechow, 182!
Notes
I cannot distinguish this species from C. compactus unless I have the rhizome. The spikelets are many-flowered; and my naming it (l.c.) in 1894 C. ochrocephalus (which species has 3–2-flowered spikelets) was an error. The style is always 3-fid with me.
CYPERUS angolensis Boeck. [family CYPERACEAE]
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