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CYPERUS procerus Rottb. [family CYPERACEAE]
Date Updated: 19 August 2007
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
CYPERUS procerus Rottb. [family CYPERACEAE], (1773).
Information
Fairly robust perennial with up to 15 cm long very slender stolons covered by distantly spaced blackish or grey scales; stems 50–90 cm long and 2–5 mm thick (but wider across the leaf-sheaths), triangular. Leaves many in the lower part, the largest 20–60 cm long and 3–10 mm wide. Inflorescence a lax or somewhat congested anthela 5–20 cm long and 5–15 cm wide, consisting of 2–4 leafy bracts and 3–6 stalked spikes with or without stalked or sessile secondary spikes from the base of the primary spikes. Spikes 2–4 x 2–5 cm, with 5–20 spreading spikelets. Spikelets 5–30 x 1.5–3.5 mm, linear. Glumes 2.5–3 mm long, ovate, light to dark reddish brown with an uncoloured margin and a rounded apex. Style 3-branched. Nutlet 1.2–1.6 x 0.7–0.9 mm, obovate, triangular, brown.
Range
S2 tropical Africa.
Altitude range
near sea-level.
Distribution
SOMALIA Macaluso 67.
Notes
The specimen above was cited in Cuf. Enum.: 1435 (1970) as C. procerus var. stenanthus Kük. This specimen has not been seen by the author and the record needs confirmation.
Date Updated: 19 August 2007
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
CYPERUS procerus Rottb. [family CYPERACEAE], (1773).
Information
Fairly robust perennial with up to 15 cm long very slender stolons covered by distantly spaced blackish or grey scales; stems 50–90 cm long and 2–5 mm thick (but wider across the leaf-sheaths), triangular. Leaves many in the lower part, the largest 20–60 cm long and 3–10 mm wide. Inflorescence a lax or somewhat congested anthela 5–20 cm long and 5–15 cm wide, consisting of 2–4 leafy bracts and 3–6 stalked spikes with or without stalked or sessile secondary spikes from the base of the primary spikes. Spikes 2–4 x 2–5 cm, with 5–20 spreading spikelets. Spikelets 5–30 x 1.5–3.5 mm, linear. Glumes 2.5–3 mm long, ovate, light to dark reddish brown with an uncoloured margin and a rounded apex. Style 3-branched. Nutlet 1.2–1.6 x 0.7–0.9 mm, obovate, triangular, brown.
Range
S2 tropical Africa.
Altitude range
near sea-level.
Distribution
SOMALIA Macaluso 67.
Notes
The specimen above was cited in Cuf. Enum.: 1435 (1970) as C. procerus var. stenanthus Kük. This specimen has not been seen by the author and the record needs confirmation.
Date Updated: 19 August 2007
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
CYPERUS procerus Rottb. [family CYPERACEAE], (1773).
Information
Fairly robust perennial with up to 15 cm long very slender stolons covered by distantly spaced blackish or grey scales; stems 50–90 cm long and 2–5 mm thick (but wider across the leaf-sheaths), triangular. Leaves many in the lower part, the largest 20–60 cm long and 3–10 mm wide. Inflorescence a lax or somewhat congested anthela 5–20 cm long and 5–15 cm wide, consisting of 2–4 leafy bracts and 3–6 stalked spikes with or without stalked or sessile secondary spikes from the base of the primary spikes. Spikes 2–4 x 2–5 cm, with 5–20 spreading spikelets. Spikelets 5–30 x 1.5–3.5 mm, linear. Glumes 2.5–3 mm long, ovate, light to dark reddish brown with an uncoloured margin and a rounded apex. Style 3-branched. Nutlet 1.2–1.6 x 0.7–0.9 mm, obovate, triangular, brown.
Range
S2 tropical Africa.
Altitude range
near sea-level.
Distribution
SOMALIA Macaluso 67.
Notes
The specimen above was cited in Cuf. Enum.: 1435 (1970) as C. procerus var. stenanthus Kük. This specimen has not been seen by the author and the record needs confirmation.
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