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Scleria schimperiana
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Mapanza, Pangama dambo
Record: EA Robinson
Apr 1958
Photocopy: Mike Bingham
Lusaka, Munali School
Record: EA Robinson
Apr 1956
Photocopy: Mike Bingham
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| Status: | Native |
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Loosely tufted annual 35-70 cm tall, with a shallow reddish root system; stems 1-3 mm wide, glabrous or hairy above. Inflorescence of one terminal and 1-2 lateral panicles, always solitary from leaf sheaths, 2-5 cm long, 1.5-2.5 cm wide, erect or ± pendulous, on slender hairy peduncles up to 8 cm long; male spikelets 4-5 mm long with dark reddish brown glumes; female spikelets (5-)6-8 mm long, the glumes pale or dark reddish brown with green midribs. Nutlets completely smooth and glabrous, wider than long. |
| Type location: |
Ethiopia |
| Notes: | "In my experience it is always found in association with S. foliosa" EAR. Red data list status: Widespread, not threatened |
| Derivation of specific name: | schimperiana: although several other persons named Schimper are known in botanical history most species and genera are likely named after Georg Heinrich Wilhelm Schimper (1804-1878) who collected mainly in Ethiopia. |
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| Zambian distribution (Flora Zambesiaca): | C,S |
| Zambian distribution (Provinces): | Lk,S |
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| Spot characters: | Display spot characters for this species |
| Content last updated: | Wednesday 22 March 2017 |
| Literature: |
Hoenselaar, K., Verdcourt, B. & Beentje, H.J. (2010). Cyperaceae Flora of Tropical East Africa Page 399. 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 90. 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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