Pycreus polystachyos
laxiflorus
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Photo: Sune Holt
Pambarra, Vilanculos Distr., Inhambane, Mozambique
Photo: Sune Holt
Pambarra, Vilanculos Distr., Inhambane, Mozambique
Photo: Sune Holt
Pambarra, Vilanculos Distr., Inhambane, Mozambique
Photo: Sune Holt
Pambarra, Vilanculos Distr., Inhambane, Mozambique
Photo: Sune Holt
Ilha do Bazaruto, Inhambane, Mozambique
Photo: Sune Holt
Ilha do Bazaruto, Inhambane, Mozambique
Photo: Sune Holt
Ilha do Bazaruto, Inhambane, Mozambique
Choma E, 8 km
Record: EA Robinson
Mar 1955
Photocopy: Mike Bingham
Mapanza, Simasunda
Record: EA Robinson; 1957
Photocopy: Mike Bingham
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| Synonyms: |
Cyperus polystachyos Rottb. var. laxiflorus Benth. Cyperus polystachyos Rottb. var. laxiflorus (Benth.) Lye |
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Annual or short-lived perennial, sometimes producing small stolons; culms tufted, 18─68 cm long, 1.3 mm wide, 3-angled, smooth. Inflorescence capitate or simple. Spikelets crowded in dense digitate clusters, sessile or at the ends of primary branches. var. laxiflorus: Inflorescence simple; spikelets clustered at end of primary branches on elongated axis, primary branches 2.7─8 cm long. |
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Australia |
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| Worldwide distribution: | Cosmopolitan in tropical, subtropical and warm temperate climates. |
| Growth form(s): | Annual. |
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| Spot characters: | Display spot characters for this species |
| Literature: |
Chapano, C. & Mamuto, M. (2003). Plants of the Chimanimani District National Herbarium and Botanic Garden, Zimbabwe Page 47. Chapano, C. & Mugarisanwa, N.H. (2003). Plants of the Matobo District National Herbarium and Botanic Garden, Zimbabwe Page 30. As Pycreus polystachyos laxiflorus Gordon-Gray, K.D. (1995). Cyperaceae in Natal Strelitzia 2 Pages 147 - 148. Heath, A. & Heath, R. (2009). Field Guide to the Plants of Northern Botswana including the Okavango Delta Kew Publishing Page 548. as Pycreus polystachyos var. polystachyos (Includes a picture). Hoenselaar, K., Verdcourt, B. & Beentje, H.J. (2010). Cyperaceae Flora of Tropical East Africa Pages 289 - 291. 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 89. Ntore, S. & al. (2024). Checklist of the vascular plants of Burundi Page 102. Setshogo, M.P. (2005). Preliminary checklist of the plants of Botswana. Sabonet Report no. 37. Sabonet, Pretoria and Gaborone Page 120. |
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