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Status: | Native |
Description: |
Slender perennial 0.3-1.5 cm tall with long straight woody rhizome. Inflorescence a stiffly erect simple panicle, 4-15 cm long; nutlets 1.5-1.8 mm long and 1-1.3 mm wide. |
Type location: |
South Africa |
Notes: | Altitude range: 450-1600(-2100) m |
Derivation of specific name: | rehmannii: named for Anton Rehmann, 1840-1917, Polish botanist and collector |
Habitat: | Seasonally or perennially wet grassland, woodland margin on sandy soils. |
Altitude range: (metres) | 450 - 1600 m |
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Worldwide distribution: | DRC Katanga, Uganda, Tanzania, South Africa |
FZ divisions: | B,N,C,S |
Zambian distribution (Provinces): | Lp,N,Mc,C,Lk,S,W |
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Spot characters: | Display spot characters for this species |
Images last updated: | Tuesday 4 July 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 Pages 388 - 389. 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 104. Setshogo, M.P. (2005). Preliminary checklist of the plants of Botswana. Sabonet Report no. 37. Sabonet, Pretoria and Gaborone Page 121. |