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Cyperus incompressus C.B. Cl. [family CYPERACEAE]
Date Updated: 5 February 2007
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 incompressus C.B. Cl. [family CYPERACEAE], in F.T.A. 8: 348 (1901); Kük. l.c. 160.
Cyperus trachycladus var. multiflorus [family CYPERACEAE], of Berhaut, Fl. Sén. ed. 2, 384 (1967)
Cyperus procerus var. vanderystii Kük. [family CYPERACEAE], l.c. 92
Information
Annual or perennial sedge 40–100 cm. high with wide, soft, triangular stems, long rays and spicately arranged large, obtuse, golden or pink tinged spikelets with obtuse membranous-edged glumes;rice fields, river-banks and near water.
Habitat
rice fields, river-banks and near water
Distribution
Sen.: Karang (Nov.) Berhaut 1791! Sédhiou, Casamance (Oct.)Guin.: Koba (Nov.) Jac.-Fél. 7216!S. L.: Kambia (Dec.) Sc. Elliot 4373! Gbap, Nongoba (Oct.) Jordan 619!
Distribution (external)
western Congo
northern Madagascar
Date Updated: 5 February 2007
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 incompressus C.B. Cl. [family CYPERACEAE], in F.T.A. 8: 348 (1901); Kük. l.c. 160.
Cyperus trachycladus var. multiflorus [family CYPERACEAE], of Berhaut, Fl. Sén. ed. 2, 384 (1967)
Cyperus procerus var. vanderystii Kük. [family CYPERACEAE], l.c. 92
Information
Annual or perennial sedge 40–100 cm. high with wide, soft, triangular stems, long rays and spicately arranged large, obtuse, golden or pink tinged spikelets with obtuse membranous-edged glumes;rice fields, river-banks and near water.
Habitat
rice fields, river-banks and near water
Distribution
Sen.: Karang (Nov.) Berhaut 1791! Sédhiou, Casamance (Oct.)Guin.: Koba (Nov.) Jac.-Fél. 7216!S. L.: Kambia (Dec.) Sc. Elliot 4373! Gbap, Nongoba (Oct.) Jordan 619!
Distribution (external)
western Congo
northern Madagascar
Date Updated: 5 February 2007
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 incompressus C.B. Cl. [family CYPERACEAE], in F.T.A. 8: 348 (1901); Kük. l.c. 160.
Cyperus trachycladus var. multiflorus [family CYPERACEAE], of Berhaut, Fl. Sén. ed. 2, 384 (1967)
Cyperus procerus var. vanderystii Kük. [family CYPERACEAE], l.c. 92
Information
Annual or perennial sedge 40–100 cm. high with wide, soft, triangular stems, long rays and spicately arranged large, obtuse, golden or pink tinged spikelets with obtuse membranous-edged glumes;rice fields, river-banks and near water.
Habitat
rice fields, river-banks and near water
Distribution
Sen.: Karang (Nov.) Berhaut 1791! Sédhiou, Casamance (Oct.)Guin.: Koba (Nov.) Jac.-Fél. 7216!S. L.: Kambia (Dec.) Sc. Elliot 4373! Gbap, Nongoba (Oct.) Jordan 619!
Distribution (external)
western Congo
northern Madagascar
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