Cyperus pustulatus Vahl [family CYPERACEAE]

Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of West Tropical Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of West Tropical Africa, Vol 3, Part 2,
Names
Cyperus pustulatus Vahl [family CYPERACEAE], Enum. Pl. 2: 341 (1806); Kük. l.c. 161 (incl. var. djalanis (Chev.) Kük.).
Juncellus pustulatus (Vahl) C.B. Cl. [family CYPERACEAE], in Dur. & Schinz, Consp. Fl. Afr. 5: 546 (1895); F.T.A. 8: 307; F.W.T.A., ed. 1, 2: 489; Berhaut, Fl. Sén. ed. 2, 377, 381 (1967)
Information
Tufted annual 30–100 cm. high with few, rather unequal rays bearing clusters of oblong, often dark-spotted, spikelets of broadly ovate, obtuse glumes; marshes and near open water.
Habitat
; marshes and near open water.
Range
Throughout tropical Africa.
Distribution
Sen.: Fayil Berhaut 3932! Kolda (Oct.) Adam 18547! Ouassadou (Sept.) Berhaut 2677! Gouloumbo to Tambacounda (Oct.) Pitot! Niokolo-Koba (Oct.) Adam 15644!Gam.: (July) Ruxton 21a! Wailikunda (Oct.) Macluskie 32!Mali: Scäetta 3329!Guin.: Sambailo (Oct.) Pitot! Seriba Adam 14803! Fouta Djalon Chev. 18613! Kouroussa (Aug.) Pobéguin 399! Lola to Nzo Chev. 20978!S. L.: Kambia (Aug.) Harvey 24b! Sendugu (June) N. W. Thomas 604! Njala (Aug.) Deighton 1836! Tisana (Nov.) Deighton 2321! Lunsar (Aug.) Adames 123!Iv. C.: Ferkessédougou (Nov.) Leeuwenberg 2038! Mankono Aké Assi 4808! Toumodi (Oct.) Pobéguin 81! Singrobo (Dec.) Adjanohoun 8 Aké Assi 4766! Baoulé Kodiokoffi Chev. 22333!U. Volta: Bedia to Barbotrom Hb. ALF! Banfora (Sept.) Jaeger 5245! Ouagadougou (Oct.) Nongonierma 201!Ghana: Burufo Spring, nr. Lawra (Apr.) Adams 4041! Gambaga (May) Morton GC 7464! Banda (Aug.) Hall 1961! Iture, nr. Elmina (Aug.) Hall 2528! Kpeshi lagoon (May) Adams 4288!Togo Rep.: Koumea (June) Mahoux 2089! Bassari to Sokodé (Aug.) Mahoux!N. Nig.: Gawu Hills, Gwari (Aug.) Onochie FHI 35932! Shagunu (July) Cook 325! Kufena Hill, Zaria (Sept.) Clayton 1322! Jos (July) Lawlor 8 Hall 16! Nupe Barter 1563! Benue R., Yola (Sept.) Kennedy FHI 7287! Damaturu, W. Bornu (Aug.) De Leeuw 1070!S. Nig.: (Jan.) Dodd 390! Shaki, nr, Lagos Macgregor 164! Ado Rock, Ado-Awaiye, Ibadan Dist. (May) Onochie FHI 31215!
Notes
[Very slender, perhaps depauperate specimens corresponding to the var. debilis Kük. occur on the margins of lateritic hard pans in Sierra Leone (Jordan 884 etc.) and have 1–3 spikelets only.]
Cyperus pustulatus Vahl [family CYPERACEAE]
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