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Cyperus mannii 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 mannii C.B. Cl. [family CYPERACEAE], in F.T.A. 8: 341 (1901). Cyperus baronii ar. mannii (C.B. Cl.) Kük. [family CYPERACEAE], in Engl., Pflanzenr. Cyper. 202 (1936).
Information
Leafy perennial to 150 cm. high with an irregular, thrice-branched umbel bearing small clusters of brown spikelets, with paler, less clearly apiculate glumes and fewer bracts than the preceding species; montane forest.
Habitat
; montane forest.
Distribution
S. L.: Bintumane Peak, Loma Mts. (Oct.舑Jan.)Lib.: Nimba Mts. (Dec.) Adam 20077!N. Nig.: Bellel, Mambila Plateau (Jan.) Hepper 1693!W. Cam.: Cam. Mt., 7,000 ft. (Jan.) Mann 1358! Mann舗s Spring, 6,650 ft. (Feb., Mar.) Adams GC 11740! E. W. Jones 9524! Buea, 5,000 ft. (Jan.) Maitland 347! Bambui (Dec.) Boughey GC 10778! 4,000 to 7,000 ft. Mann 320! 1479!F. Po: Biao, 6,400 ft, (Sept.) Wrigley 8 Melville 474! El Pico, 6,000 ft. (Dec.) Boughey 125! Moka (Dec.) Boughey 64!
Notes
[Perhaps to be equated with one of the east African species of this section of the genus.]
Cyperus mannii C.B. Cl. [family CYPERACEAE]
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