Cyperus pulchellus
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Description
Perennial with short rhizome;
Leaves 1 or 2 to the stem, very narrow to almost setaceous, rigid, smooth or scaberulous at the top, 1(-1½) mm wide.
Inflorescence a single, globose, whitish or pale cinnamon-coloured head 5-10 mm Ø.
Stamen 1, sometimes in some flowers 2;
Distribution
Asia present, Asia-Tropical: Philippines (Philippines present), Australasia, Luzon present, Tropical Africa present
Tropical Africa, Asia, and Australia, everywhere scattered; in Malesia: Philippines (Luzon, twice collected).
Notes
By many authors united with C. leucocephalus (Kyllinga pierreana ; see ), which in my opinion is a distinct species occurring from India to Indo-China, mainly characterised by its semi-globose, paucispiculate heads, larger, truncate glumes, and larger, linear-oblong, black nuts.
Due to the wrong citation of the Cuming-number collected between 1836 and 1840 (1617 should be 1417), MERRILL l.c. indicated as locality: Mindanao (Misamis). The species was again collected in Luzon in 1918.
Due to the wrong citation of the Cuming-number collected between 1836 and 1840 (1617 should be 1417), MERRILL l.c. indicated as locality: Mindanao (Misamis). The species was again collected in Luzon in 1918.
Citation
F. M. BAILEY 1902 – In: Queensl. Fl.: 1735
Clarke 1884 – In: J. Linn. Soc. Bot.: 107
SCHEFFER 1874 – In: Nat. Tijd. N. I.: 48
Miq. 1856 – In: Fl. Ind. Bat.: 296
Clarke 1907 – In: Philip. J. Sc.: Bot. 82
Merr. 1923 – In: En. Philip.: 106
Benth. 1878 – In: Fl. Austr.: 265
NAVES 1882: NOV. App.: 301
KÜK. 1936 – In: Pfl. R.: 278
STEUD. 1855 – In: Syn.: 71
KERN 1954: p. 39. – In: Reinwardtia: f. 5 dextr.
KUNTH 1837 – In: En.: 110
VIDAL 1885: Phan. Cuming. Philip.: 155
STEUD. 1855 – In: Syn.: 53