Lipocarpha rehmannii (Ridl.) Goetgh.

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Lipocarpha rehmannii

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Lipocarpha rehmannii

Picture: Bart Wursten
Christon Bank

Lipocarpha rehmannii

Picture: Bart Wursten
Christon Bank

Lipocarpha rehmannii

Namwala
Record: van Rensburg
Apr 1963
Photocopy: Mike Bingham

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Synonyms: Rikliella rehmannii (Ridl.) J. Raynal
Scirpus hystrix auct.
Scirpus rehmannii Ridl.
Common names:
Frequency: Widespread
Status: Native
Description:
Tufted annual. Longest involucral bract spreading or reflexed. Inflorescence a dense head of 3─12 ovoid ± confluent spikelets; spikelet bracts red-brown with green or yellow apex. Style with 3 branches. Nutlet triangular in cross-section.
Type location:
Angola
Notes:
Derivation of specific name: rehmannii: named for Anton Rehmann, 1840-1917, Polish botanist and collector
Habitat: Seasonally wet grassland, seeps, shallow soil over rock pavements
Altitude range: 850 - 1750 m
Flowering time:
Worldwide distribution: Angola, Namibia, Kenya, Tanzania, Malawi, Mozambique, Zambia, Zimbabwe, South Africa and Madagascar.
Zambian distribution (Flora Zambesiaca): C,S
Zambian distribution (Provinces): Lk,S
Growth form(s):
Endemic status:
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Content last updated: Wednesday 24 May 2017
Literature:

Chapano, C. & Mugarisanwa, N.H. (2003). Plants of the Matobo District National Herbarium and Botanic Garden, Zimbabwe Page 24.

Gordon-Gray, K.D. (1995). Cyperaceae in Natal Strelitzia 2 Page 123.

Hoenselaar, K., Verdcourt, B. & Beentje, H.J. (2010). Cyperaceae Flora of Tropical East Africa Pages 352 - 353.

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.

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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Bingham, M.G., Willemen, A., Wursten, B.T., Ballings, P. and Hyde, M.A. (2024). Flora of Zambia: Species information: Lipocarpha rehmannii.
https://www.zambiaflora.com/speciesdata/species.php?species_id=109300, retrieved 29 March 2024

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