Lipocarpha albiceps
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Zambezi Source
Record: EA Robinson
Dec 1963
Photocopy: Mike Bingham
Chakwenga Headwaters
Record: EA Robinson
Jan 1964
Photocopy: Mike Bingham
Chakwenga Headwaters
Record: EA Robinson
Jan 1964
Photocopy: Mike Bingham
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Perennial with short creeping rhizome; rhizome reddish-brown, to 5 mm wide, covered with reddish-brown scales; stem round or elliptic in cross-section, 10─70 cm tall. Involucral bracts 2─3, the main one spreading and 2─13 cm long, the others reflexed and shorter. Inflorescence a rather dense head of 1─6 confluent ovoid spikes, the terminal one largest; spikelet bracts dark reddish-brown. |
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Angola |
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| Derivation of specific name: | albiceps: ‘white head’, but this is contradicted by the description |
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| Worldwide distribution: | Senegal and Chad to Zimbabwe |
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| Literature: |
Hoenselaar, K., Verdcourt, B. & Beentje, H.J. (2010). Cyperaceae Flora of Tropical East Africa Page 354. Mapaura, A. & Timberlake, J. (eds) (2004). A checklist of Zimbabwean vascular plants Southern African Botanical Diversity Network Report No. 33 Sabonet, Pretoria and Harare Page 88. Ntore, S. & al. (2024). Checklist of the vascular plants of Burundi Page 99. |
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