Cyperus mapanioides
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Zambezi Source
Record: EA Robinson
Dec 1963
Photocopy: Mike Bingham
Zambezi Rapids
Record: EA Robinson
Dec 1963
Photocopy: Mike Bingham
Mwinilunga District, Wanyizenzi
Jan 1991
Photo: Mike Bingham
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| Synonyms: |
Cyperus major (Boeckeler) Cherm. |
| Common names: | |
| Frequency: | Widespread |
| Status: | Native |
| Description: |
Slender perennial up to 50 cm tall, with thick creeping rhizome, culms sharply 3-angled, sides grooved, glabrous. Involucral bracts 4-7, leaflike. Inflorescence capitate, sometimes loosely so; spikelets 7-20 per head. |
| Type location: |
DR Congo |
| Notes: | “Looks very similar to C. chinsalensis but has more involucral bracts and smaller glumes.” FTEA |
| Derivation of specific name: | mapanioides: Resembling the genus Mapania, a genus of tropical sedges; nothing to do with the mopane tree or mopane woodland. |
| Habitat: | Miombo woodland and wet forest; clearings and footpaths |
| Altitude range: (metres) | 400 - 1200 m |
| Flowering time: | |
| Worldwide distribution: | Widespread in tropical west and central Africa, southward to Angola, NW Zambia and Mozambique. |
| FZ divisions: | W |
| Zambian distribution (Provinces): | Nw,Cb |
| Growth form(s): | |
| Endemic status: | |
| Red data list status: | |
| Insects associated with this species: | |
| Spot characters: | Display spot characters for this species |
| Images last updated: | Monday 17 July 2017 |
| Literature: |
Hoenselaar, K., Verdcourt, B. & Beentje, H.J. (2010). Cyperaceae Flora of Tropical East Africa Pages 167 - 168. |
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