Scleria camaratensis Core

  • Authority

    Maguire, Bassett. 1965. The Botany of the Guayana Highland. Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 12 (3): 1-285.

  • Family

    Cyperaceae

  • Scientific Name

    Scleria camaratensis Core

  • Type

    Type locality. River bank in Camarata Valley, alt. 450 m, G. G. Simpson 6, 3 Mar 1939 (holotype VEN) . Leandro Aristeguieta (in litt, 7 de agosto, 1963) states: " La localidad 'Camarata Valley' se encuentra al pie de la montana Auyantepui, Gran Sabana, Estado Bolivar, Venezuela."

  • Description

    Latin Diagnosis - Culmo 1 m alto, triquetro, minute piloso; foliis 1 cm latis, subtus minute pilosa, supra glabrata; contra-ligula abbreviata; inflorescentia 14 cm longa, 2 cm lata; panicula 5 cm longa, pyramidale; spieulis masculis 3 mm longis, angustis; gluma foeminea naviculare, ovata, ferruginea, fere glabra; achaenio 2 mm longo, albo, globoso, laevissimo; hypogynio dentibus lineari-oblongis integris digitato. Scleriae neogranatensis proxime affinis.

  • Discussion

    This species resembles S. neogranatensis Clarke, which is known only from the department of Antioquia, Colombia. S. camaratensis has a much smaller panicle than that species and has a larger achene. Distribution. River banks, southeastern Venezuela (known only from the type locality). Bolivar: Camarata Valley, alt. 450 m, Simpson 6, 3 Mar 1939 (type).