Cyperus glaucophyllusNot on sheet. [family CYPERACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on sheet.,
Related name
Cyperus pseudoleptocladus
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Flora
Entry for CYPERUS glaucophyllus Boeck. [family CYPERACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of Tropical Africa, Vol 8, page 264, (1902) Author: (By C. B. Clarke.)
Names
CYPERUS glaucophyllusBoeck. [family CYPERACEAE], Cyp. Novæ, i. 4. —C. B. Clarke in Durand & Schinz, Conspect. Fl. Afr. v. 564; K. Schum. in Engl. Pfl. Ost-Afr. C. 120.
Information
Glabrous. Rhizome oblique. Stem nearly 3 ft. long, at the top trigonous. Leaves 2/3 the length of the stem, 1/4 in. broad. Umbel 10 in. in diam., compound, with slender flexuose rays; bracts overtopping the umbel, similar to the leaves. Spikelets 6–1 together, 1/3– 1/2 by 1/16– 1/12 in., brown, compressed, 12–16-flowered. Glumes striate, minutely mucronate. Style nearly as long as the nut; branches 3, linear. Nut 1/2 as long as the glume, oblong-obovoid, black.
The spikelets are said by Boeckeler to be solitary; so some of them are, as is very commonly the case in the group of C. diffusus; but the ultimate inflorescence is not spicate (as in the subgenus Choristachyæ); the final umbellule has some of its raylets with one spikelet only.