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CYPERUS somaliensis C.B. Cl. [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 somaliensis C.B. Cl. [family CYPERACEAE], (1895);. type: N1, without precise locality, Cole s.n. (K lecto.). Fig. 67 A–C.
Information
Slender tussocky perennial with numerous crowded basal leaves and 1 or a few fertile stems from each tussock; stem 5–20 cm long and 0.5–1 mm thick, triangular, glabrous. Leaves from the lower 2 cm only; base covered by a very thick layer of brown sheaths; blades 2–10 cm long and 0.4–0.8 mm thick, flat (but appears filiform) or inrolled, scabrid on margin. Inflorescence a dense hemispherical head of numerous crowded spikelets; involucral bracts 2–4, leafy, erect, spreading or reflexed, 1–8 cm long. Spikelets 5–7 x 2.5–3.5 mm, ovate-elliptic, compressed, 8–12-flowered. Glumes 3–3.5 mm long, ovate-elliptic, pale brown with 4–7 narrow nerves on each side of the indistinct midrib that ends below the obtuse apex. Style 3-branched. Nutlet c. 1.5 x 1 mm, obovate-triangular with concave adaxial side, black, almost smooth.
Range
N1, 2 not known elsewhere.
Altitude range
1200–1400 m.
Distribution
SOMALIA Bally 7326; Newbould 757, 921.
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 somaliensis C.B. Cl. [family CYPERACEAE], (1895);. type: N1, without precise locality, Cole s.n. (K lecto.). Fig. 67 A–C.
Information
Slender tussocky perennial with numerous crowded basal leaves and 1 or a few fertile stems from each tussock; stem 5–20 cm long and 0.5–1 mm thick, triangular, glabrous. Leaves from the lower 2 cm only; base covered by a very thick layer of brown sheaths; blades 2–10 cm long and 0.4–0.8 mm thick, flat (but appears filiform) or inrolled, scabrid on margin. Inflorescence a dense hemispherical head of numerous crowded spikelets; involucral bracts 2–4, leafy, erect, spreading or reflexed, 1–8 cm long. Spikelets 5–7 x 2.5–3.5 mm, ovate-elliptic, compressed, 8–12-flowered. Glumes 3–3.5 mm long, ovate-elliptic, pale brown with 4–7 narrow nerves on each side of the indistinct midrib that ends below the obtuse apex. Style 3-branched. Nutlet c. 1.5 x 1 mm, obovate-triangular with concave adaxial side, black, almost smooth.
Range
N1, 2 not known elsewhere.
Altitude range
1200–1400 m.
Distribution
SOMALIA Bally 7326; Newbould 757, 921.
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 somaliensis C.B. Cl. [family CYPERACEAE], (1895);. type: N1, without precise locality, Cole s.n. (K lecto.). Fig. 67 A–C.
Information
Slender tussocky perennial with numerous crowded basal leaves and 1 or a few fertile stems from each tussock; stem 5–20 cm long and 0.5–1 mm thick, triangular, glabrous. Leaves from the lower 2 cm only; base covered by a very thick layer of brown sheaths; blades 2–10 cm long and 0.4–0.8 mm thick, flat (but appears filiform) or inrolled, scabrid on margin. Inflorescence a dense hemispherical head of numerous crowded spikelets; involucral bracts 2–4, leafy, erect, spreading or reflexed, 1–8 cm long. Spikelets 5–7 x 2.5–3.5 mm, ovate-elliptic, compressed, 8–12-flowered. Glumes 3–3.5 mm long, ovate-elliptic, pale brown with 4–7 narrow nerves on each side of the indistinct midrib that ends below the obtuse apex. Style 3-branched. Nutlet c. 1.5 x 1 mm, obovate-triangular with concave adaxial side, black, almost smooth.
Range
N1, 2 not known elsewhere.
Altitude range
1200–1400 m.
Distribution
SOMALIA Bally 7326; Newbould 757, 921.
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