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Websteria confervoides (Poir.) Hooper [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
Websteria confervoides (Poir.) Hooper [family CYPERACEAE], in Kew Bull. 26: 582 (1972).
Scirpus confervoides Poir. [family CYPERACEAE], , Encyc. Méth. 755 (1804)
Rhynchospora ruppioides Benth. [family CYPERACEAE], in Hook. f., Icon. Pl. 14, t. 1344 (1881).
Information
A green, floating, alga-like plant, most closely resembling Eleocharis naumanniana in the single-flowered, soft, flattened spikelet; in running water.
Habitat
; in running water.
Range
intermittently in the New World tropics.
Distribution
Iv. C.: Moossou (Dec.) Hallé & Guillaumet! Abouabou (Mar.) J. 8 A. Raynal 13650!S. Nig.: Sapoba (Sept.) Onochie in FHI 34310!
Distribution (external)
Congo
Tanzania
Zambia
Madagascar
Ceylon
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
Websteria confervoides (Poir.) Hooper [family CYPERACEAE], in Kew Bull. 26: 582 (1972).
Scirpus confervoides Poir. [family CYPERACEAE], , Encyc. Méth. 755 (1804)
Rhynchospora ruppioides Benth. [family CYPERACEAE], in Hook. f., Icon. Pl. 14, t. 1344 (1881).
Information
A green, floating, alga-like plant, most closely resembling Eleocharis naumanniana in the single-flowered, soft, flattened spikelet; in running water.
Habitat
; in running water.
Range
intermittently in the New World tropics.
Distribution
Iv. C.: Moossou (Dec.) Hallé & Guillaumet! Abouabou (Mar.) J. 8 A. Raynal 13650!S. Nig.: Sapoba (Sept.) Onochie in FHI 34310!
Distribution (external)
Congo
Tanzania
Zambia
Madagascar
Ceylon
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
Websteria confervoides (Poir.) Hooper [family CYPERACEAE], in Kew Bull. 26: 582 (1972).
Scirpus confervoides Poir. [family CYPERACEAE], , Encyc. Méth. 755 (1804)
Rhynchospora ruppioides Benth. [family CYPERACEAE], in Hook. f., Icon. Pl. 14, t. 1344 (1881).
Information
A green, floating, alga-like plant, most closely resembling Eleocharis naumanniana in the single-flowered, soft, flattened spikelet; in running water.
Habitat
; in running water.
Range
intermittently in the New World tropics.
Distribution
Iv. C.: Moossou (Dec.) Hallé & Guillaumet! Abouabou (Mar.) J. 8 A. Raynal 13650!S. Nig.: Sapoba (Sept.) Onochie in FHI 34310!
Distribution (external)
Congo
Tanzania
Zambia
Madagascar
Ceylon
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