Scleria woodii C.B. Clarke
var. ornata (Cherm.) W. Schultze-Motel

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Choma
dambo
Record: EA Robinson
Jan 1955
Photocopy: Mike Bingham

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Status:	Native
Description:	Perennial 25-75 cm tall, arising from a single obliquely descending scented white or pink soft tuberous rhizome, which eventually produces a new plant at its tip, up to 10 cm from its parent which subsequently dies after flowering; internodes slightly swollen. Inflorescence a simple or compound panicle, with 10-30 glomerules of (1-)2-6 spikelets; glumes pale to blackish-brown. Nutlets grey with darker longitudinal stripes, ovoid to globose. Nutlet smooth or almost so; inflorescence more open, sometimes branched twice.
Type location:	DRC Kivu Province
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Habitat:	Damp grassland and shallow pools on rocks.
Altitude range: (metres)	1000 - 2100 m
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Worldwide distribution:	West Africa, S. Sudan, DRC, Zambia.
FZ divisions:	S
Zambian distribution (Provinces):	S
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Spot characters:	Display spot characters for this species
Images last updated:	Thursday 6 April 2017
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African Plants: A Photo Guide (Senckenberg): Scleria woodii
African Plant Database: Scleria woodii
BHL (Biodiversity Heritage Library): Scleria woodii
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Mansfeld World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops: Scleria woodii
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