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Scleria foliosa
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Lusaka east
Record: EA Robinson
Jan 1958
Photocopy: Mike Bingham
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| Frequency: | Widespread |
| Status: | Native |
| Description: |
Annual 0.2─2 m tall, loosely or densely tufted, with brown or reddish roots. Leaves and bracts ligulate, the sheath mouth extended into a tongue with dark brown margins. Leaves glabrous but scabrid on margins and veins beneath. Inflorescence of a terminal and 1─3 lateral panicles, always single at the nodes of the upper leaves. Peduncles stiffly erect but may become ± pendulous after maturity. Nutlets white or grey, ovoid 3.5─4 mm long, 2─2.4 mm wide, glabrous, lightly to moderately verrucose. |
| Type location: |
Ethiopia |
| Notes: | |
| Derivation of specific name: | foliosa: leafy |
| Habitat: | Swamp edges, seeps, seasonally damp areas in wooded grassland, rice fields. |
| Altitude range: | 30 - 2050 m |
| Flowering time: | |
| Worldwide distribution: | Regional: Zambia, Malawi, Mozambique, Zimbabwe; Global: west, east and southern Africa, Madagascar and India. |
| Zambian distribution (Flora Zambesiaca): | C,S |
| Zambian distribution (Provinces): | Lk,S |
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| Endemic status: | |
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| Spot characters: | Display spot characters for this species |
| Content last updated: | Friday 10 March 2017 |
| Literature: |
Chapano, C. & Mugarisanwa, N.H. (2003). Plants of the Matobo District National Herbarium and Botanic Garden, Zimbabwe Page 32. Hoenselaar, K., Verdcourt, B. & Beentje, H.J. (2010). Cyperaceae Flora of Tropical East Africa Page 400. 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. Setshogo, M.P. (2005). Preliminary checklist of the plants of Botswana. Sabonet Report no. 37. Sabonet, Pretoria and Gaborone Page 121. |
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