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CYPERUS somaliensis C. B. Clarke [family CYPERACEAE]
Date Updated: 19 August 2007
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 somaliensis C. B. Clarke [family CYPERACEAE], in Kew Bulletin, 1895, 229.
Information
Stems 4–6 in. long, slender, at the base cylindric-thickened by leaf-sheaths, tufted, hard, with wiry roots. Leaves 1/2– 3/4 the length of the stems, setaceous, glabrous or pubescent; sheaths always pubescent. Head 1, 1/3– 1/2 in. in diam., of 6–24 spikelets, straw- or cinnamon-coloured; bracts 2, lowest up to 2 in. long, setaceous. Spikelets up to 1/5 by 1/6 in. (mostly smaller), ovoid, flattened, 4–8-flowered. Glumes boat-shaped, obtuse, many-striate. Style as long as the nut; branches 3, linear, exserted. Nut 2/5 the length of the glume, triquetrous, obovoid, brown, curved, asymmetric.
Distribution
Somaliland Nile Land Mrs. Lort-Phillips! Miss Edith Cole!
Notes
This plant appears most like C. niveus, Retz., but is on a very much smaller scale. The heads, though dense, are evidently compound, which approximates it to the succeeding section.
Date Updated: 19 August 2007
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 somaliensis C. B. Clarke [family CYPERACEAE], in Kew Bulletin, 1895, 229.
Information
Stems 4–6 in. long, slender, at the base cylindric-thickened by leaf-sheaths, tufted, hard, with wiry roots. Leaves 1/2– 3/4 the length of the stems, setaceous, glabrous or pubescent; sheaths always pubescent. Head 1, 1/3– 1/2 in. in diam., of 6–24 spikelets, straw- or cinnamon-coloured; bracts 2, lowest up to 2 in. long, setaceous. Spikelets up to 1/5 by 1/6 in. (mostly smaller), ovoid, flattened, 4–8-flowered. Glumes boat-shaped, obtuse, many-striate. Style as long as the nut; branches 3, linear, exserted. Nut 2/5 the length of the glume, triquetrous, obovoid, brown, curved, asymmetric.
Distribution
Somaliland Nile Land Mrs. Lort-Phillips! Miss Edith Cole!
Notes
This plant appears most like C. niveus, Retz., but is on a very much smaller scale. The heads, though dense, are evidently compound, which approximates it to the succeeding section.
Date Updated: 19 August 2007
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 somaliensis C. B. Clarke [family CYPERACEAE], in Kew Bulletin, 1895, 229.
Information
Stems 4–6 in. long, slender, at the base cylindric-thickened by leaf-sheaths, tufted, hard, with wiry roots. Leaves 1/2– 3/4 the length of the stems, setaceous, glabrous or pubescent; sheaths always pubescent. Head 1, 1/3– 1/2 in. in diam., of 6–24 spikelets, straw- or cinnamon-coloured; bracts 2, lowest up to 2 in. long, setaceous. Spikelets up to 1/5 by 1/6 in. (mostly smaller), ovoid, flattened, 4–8-flowered. Glumes boat-shaped, obtuse, many-striate. Style as long as the nut; branches 3, linear, exserted. Nut 2/5 the length of the glume, triquetrous, obovoid, brown, curved, asymmetric.
Distribution
Somaliland Nile Land Mrs. Lort-Phillips! Miss Edith Cole!
Notes
This plant appears most like C. niveus, Retz., but is on a very much smaller scale. The heads, though dense, are evidently compound, which approximates it to the succeeding section.
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