Cyperus podocarpus Boeck. [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 podocarpus Boeck. [family CYPERACEAE], in Flora 62: 551(1879); F.T.A. 8: 333; C.B. Cl., Illustr. Cyper. t.10 (1909); Kük. l.c. 162; Berhaut, Fl. Sén. ed. 2, 377, 381 (1967).
Information
Slender annual, variable in size, with few, narrow leaves, an erect bract and 1–3 digitate clusters of acute, terete spikelets with broad-keeled glumes on a wide rhachilla, curved at maturity; marshes and beside pools on rock outcrops.
Habitat
; marshes and beside pools on rock outcrops.
Distribution
Sen.: Sangalkam Berhaut 2669! Ouassadou Berhaut 1566! Kanéméré (Sept.) Fotius K492! Tambacounda Berhaut 3183! Tambacounda to Gouloumbo (Oct.) Pitot!Mali: Kita (July) Jaeger 14! Bamako Waterlot 1291! Bougouni Scaëtta in Hb. Roberty 3130! Ségou (Sept.) Roberty 2707! Boré (July) Demange 31/1957!Guin.: Seriba Adam 14802!S. L.: Kambia (Aug.) Harvey 24c!Iv. C.: Ouango-Fitini (July) Aké Assi 4828! Bouna Reserve, Kakpin (June) Aké Assi 10301!U. Volta: Sikasso to Bobo-Dioulasso Adam 15104!Ghana: Burufo(Sept.) Hall CC 727! Lawra (Sept.) Hall CC 703!N. Nig.: (Aug.) Lely P464! 80 mls. N. of Gusau, Sokoto Prov. (July) de Leeuw 912! Bindawa, Katsina Prov. (Aug.) Grove 42! Kan Gimi, Zaria Prov. (May) Keay FHI 22897! Anara F.R., Zaria Prov. (July) Clayton 1227! 1258!
Distribution (external)
central
northeast tropical Africa
Notes
[Very variable in size, having a depauperate form with one to a few spikelets similar to the var. debilis of the previous species from which it can be distinguished by the much more acute, often curved, spikelets.]
Cyperus podocarpus Boeck. [family CYPERACEAE]
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