| Pycreus aethiops (Welw. ex Ridl.) C.B. Clarke |
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| Information on the genus : Pycreus |
| Basionym : Cyperus aethiops Welw. ex Ridl. |
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Status
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| Status for SA : | accepted (present) |
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| Status for TA : | accepted (present) |
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| Synonym(s) Homotypic |
 Cyperus aethiops Welw. ex Ridl. (1884) |
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| Synonym(s) Heterotypic |
| =Cyperus aethiops var. aberdarensis (Kük.) Kük. |
| =Cyperus aberdarensis Kük. (1925) |
| =Cyperus aethiops var. tessmannii Kük. |
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| Ecology and distribution |
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| Biology : |
Perennial herb to 90 cm tall; culms slightly swollen at base, 21-82 cm long, 0,8-2,2 mm Ø, trigonous, smooth, base surrounded by wide blackish leaf sheaths (4-9,5 cm long); blade linear, folded, stiff, sometimes channelled, 18-37 cm x 1,2-3,8 mm, acute, apex ± scabrid; inflorescence simple to compound with primary branches 2-4, 1-3 cm long; spikelets loosely to densely arranged in digitate clusters, sometimes on an elongated axis, the clusters sessile and at end of primary branches; spikelets 8-20 to many per cluster, linear, 0,7-1,5 cm x 1,5-1,9 mm. |
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| Ecology : |
Brook; swampy grassland; humid savanna on sand; 900-3050 m alt. |
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Near P. nuerensis. According to Reynders in Phytotaxa 166: 41, 2014, perhaps conspecific with P. cooperi. |
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| Biol./Eco : |
perennial-Herb, Sudd hydrophyte, Helophyte, Cyperoid- Ht 0.2 - 0.4 m. Alt: 1000 m. Distribution: BOT |
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Bibliography for Tropical Africa :
- Cat. Pl. Vasc. Burkina Faso:54 (2012)
- DARBYSHIRE, I. KORDOFAMI, M. & AL. (2015). The plants of Sudan and South Sudan, An annoted checklist. Kew Publishing : 114
- CÉSAR J. & C. CHATELAIN (2019). Flore illustrée du Tchad. Conservatoire et Jardin botaniques de Genève, Coopération Suisse & Univ. N'Djaména : 128
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| More info on : |
| see under Jstor_African Plant Initiative |
| see under Flora of Zimbabwe |
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