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BULBOSTYLIS megastachys 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
BULBOSTYLIS megastachys C. B. Clarke [family CYPERACEAE], in Durand & Schinz, Conspect. Fl. Afr. v. 614. —Rendle in Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw. ii. 125.
Information
Stems densely tufted, 12 in. long, rigid, stouter than in any other Bulbostylis of this section, at the top glabrous. Leaves hardly 1/4 the length of the stem, setaceous, glabrous or minutely scabrous on the margins; sheaths without any white hairs in the throat. Umbel simple of 3–5 solitary spikelets; bracts 2–3, lowest 1/4– 1/3 in. long, rusty brown not green, narrow-lanceolate. Spikelets 1/2 by 1/8 in. and upwards, subcylindric, rusty brown. Glumes boat-shaped, ovate, hardly acute, minutely pubescent; keel paler, hardly excurrent. Nut 1/3 the length of the glume, trigonous, obovoid, truncate, pallid, smooth, obscurely waved transversely. Style longer than the nut; branches 3, long; base persistent on the nut, small, conic, black-brown.
Distribution
Angola Lower Guinea Huilla; on low hills at the edges of woods near Catumba, Welwitsch, 6952!

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
BULBOSTYLIS megastachys C. B. Clarke [family CYPERACEAE], in Durand & Schinz, Conspect. Fl. Afr. v. 614. —Rendle in Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw. ii. 125.
Information
Stems densely tufted, 12 in. long, rigid, stouter than in any other Bulbostylis of this section, at the top glabrous. Leaves hardly 1/4 the length of the stem, setaceous, glabrous or minutely scabrous on the margins; sheaths without any white hairs in the throat. Umbel simple of 3–5 solitary spikelets; bracts 2–3, lowest 1/4– 1/3 in. long, rusty brown not green, narrow-lanceolate. Spikelets 1/2 by 1/8 in. and upwards, subcylindric, rusty brown. Glumes boat-shaped, ovate, hardly acute, minutely pubescent; keel paler, hardly excurrent. Nut 1/3 the length of the glume, trigonous, obovoid, truncate, pallid, smooth, obscurely waved transversely. Style longer than the nut; branches 3, long; base persistent on the nut, small, conic, black-brown.
Distribution
Angola Lower Guinea Huilla; on low hills at the edges of woods near Catumba, Welwitsch, 6952!

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
BULBOSTYLIS megastachys C. B. Clarke [family CYPERACEAE], in Durand & Schinz, Conspect. Fl. Afr. v. 614. —Rendle in Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw. ii. 125.
Information
Stems densely tufted, 12 in. long, rigid, stouter than in any other Bulbostylis of this section, at the top glabrous. Leaves hardly 1/4 the length of the stem, setaceous, glabrous or minutely scabrous on the margins; sheaths without any white hairs in the throat. Umbel simple of 3–5 solitary spikelets; bracts 2–3, lowest 1/4– 1/3 in. long, rusty brown not green, narrow-lanceolate. Spikelets 1/2 by 1/8 in. and upwards, subcylindric, rusty brown. Glumes boat-shaped, ovate, hardly acute, minutely pubescent; keel paler, hardly excurrent. Nut 1/3 the length of the glume, trigonous, obovoid, truncate, pallid, smooth, obscurely waved transversely. Style longer than the nut; branches 3, long; base persistent on the nut, small, conic, black-brown.
Distribution
Angola Lower Guinea Huilla; on low hills at the edges of woods near Catumba, Welwitsch, 6952!
BULBOSTYLIS megastachys C. B. Clarke [family CYPERACEAE]
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