- Family:
- Cyperaceae Juss.
- Genus:
- Cyperus L.
Cyperus kernii (Raymond) Bauters
[FWTA]
Cyperaceae, Miss S. S. Hooper. Flora of West Tropical Africa 3:2. 1972
- Morphology General Habit
- Stems 2–25 cm. long
- Diagnostic
- Somewhat stouter than Ascolepis dipsacoides which it resembles in the head of spikelets with squarrose glumes
- Ecology
- Damp ground or marshes.
[FTEA]
Cyperaceae, K Hoenselaar, B. Verdcourt & H. Beentje. Hypolytrum, D Simpson. Fuirena, M Muasya. Flora of Tropical East Africa. 2010
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Fruits
- Nutlets obovoid, 0.4–0.7 × 0.3–0.4 mm, with small style base remnant, rhombic or elliptic in cross-section and dorsiventrally flattened. Tubercular
- Ecology
- Swamp or regenerating woodland; 300–?1600 m
- Type
- Type: Senegal, Berhaut 4692 (MT, holo.; P, iso.)
- Morphology General Habit
- Tufted annual.
- Morphology Roots
- Roots thin.
- Morphology Stem
- Stem 2–40 cm tall, 0.5–1.5 mm across
- Morphology Leaves
- Leaves to 16 cm long, to 2 mm wide
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Inflorescences Bracts
- Involucral bracts 2–5, the largest to 15 cm long
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Inflorescences
- Inflorescence terminal with (1–)2–8 ovoid spikes 2–8 × 1.5–5 mm.
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Inflorescences Spikelets
- Spikelet bracts yellowgreen to pale brown with red dots and a yellow apex, ellipsoidal to obovate, 1.4–2.6 × 0.4–0.6 mm, long-acuminate, scabridulous at apex; prophyll and glume absent
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Androecium Stamens
- Stamen 1.
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Androecium Stamens Anthers
- Anthers 0.2–0.3 mm long
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Gynoecium Style
- Style 0.1 mm or less, 2-branched
- Distribution
- Flora districts: T4 T6 Range: From Senegal to Ethiopia and south to Zimbabwe
Native to:
Benin, Burkina, Cameroon, Central African Repu, Chad, Ethiopia, Ghana, India, Malawi, Mali, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sudan, Tanzania, Togo, Zambia, Zimbabwe
Cyperus kernii (Raymond) Bauters appears in other Kew resources:
First published in Phytotaxa 166: 20 (2014)
Accepted by
- Govaerts, R., Nic Lughadha, E., Black, N., Turner, R. & Paton, A. (2021). The World Checklist of Vascular Plants, a continuously updated resource for exploring global plant diversity. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-021-00997-6 Scientific Data 8: 215.
Literature
Kew Backbone Distributions
- Akoègninou, A., van der Burg, W.J. & van der Maesen, L.J.G. (eds.) (2006). Flore Analytique du Bénin: 1-1034. Backhuys Publishers.
- Browning, J. & al. (2020). Flora Zambesiaca 14: 1-455. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
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Flora of Tropical East Africa
Flora of Tropical East Africa
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Flora of West Tropical Africa
Flora of West Tropical Africa
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Kew Backbone Distributions
The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Selected Plant Families 2022. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/
© Copyright 2017 World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0
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Kew Names and Taxonomic Backbone
The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Selected Plant Families 2022. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/
© Copyright 2017 International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0