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Fuirena bidgoodae, a new species of Cyperaceae from East Africa

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Fuirena bidgoodae Hoenselaar & Muasya, a new species of Fuirena Rottb. from eastern Africa, is described and illustrated.

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Acknowledgements

We thank Margaret Tebbs for the excellent illustrations and Melanie Wilmot-Dear for translating the diagnosis into Latin. A.M.M. was funded by the Norwegian Council for Higher Education Programme for Development Research & Education (NUFU project 53/03) to visit Kew during research on this article.

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  1. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, TW9 3AB, U.K.

    K. Hoenselaar & D. A. Simpson

  2. Department of Botany, University of Cape Town, Private Bag, 7701, Rondebosch, South Africa

    A. M. Muasya

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  1. K. Hoenselaar
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Hoenselaar, K., Muasya, A.M. & Simpson, D.A. Fuirena bidgoodae, a new species of Cyperaceae from East Africa. Kew Bull 64, 685–687 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12225-009-9150-2

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