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Syntype of Scleria iostephana Nelmes [family CYPERACEAE]

Date Updated: 4 May 2016

Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K), K000455473
Collection
Herbarium Specimens
Resource Type
Specimens
Collector
Dawkins, H.C., #365
Collection Date
07-09-1949
Locality
On East side of Entebbe bay about 2 miles from the town. Buganda Province, Kyewaga Forest, Busiro County, N-W. Victoria region.
Country
Uganda (Uganda)
Collection altitude
1143.002286225
Identifications
Syntype of Scleria iostephana Nelmes [family CYPERACEAE] (stored under name) Scleria naumanniana Boeckeler [family CYPERACEAE]; Verified by Piérart, P.J.A.G. Scleria schimperiana Boeckeler [family CYPERACEAE]; Scleria barteri Boeckeler [family CYPERACEAE];
Notes
Erect sedge reaching 5' high, forming lax clumps arising from rhizomes near soil surface. Associated with Cyperus (D.359) and grass (D.363), with bracken and many shrubs and young trees including Raphia and Conopharyngia holstii. Collected from several neighbouring clumps of the same species but almost certainly different individuals. In open parts of shrub growth.; On level site about 10' above lake level but about 100 yards from shore. Soil deep grey coarse sand, high proportion of organic debris, apparently a littoral deposit. Collector number D.365.; A small forest patch extending from lakeshore swamp to cultivated land about 50' higher. Subject for many years to intense casual cutting for poles, firewood and palm-leaves. Now being converted under Working Plan to pure Eucalyptus plantation.; Seen for "Flora of Tropical East Africa"; Sheet 1
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