Cyperus digitatus Roxb.

  • Filed As

    Cyperaceae
    Cyperus digitatus Roxb.

  • Collector(s)

    P. J. Greenway 12610, 24 Jul 1966

  • Location

    Tanzania. Monduli Dist., T2, Eastern side of Ngorongoro Crater Floor, terminating the northern extension of the Oljoro Nyuki Swamp.

  • Identifiers

    NY Barcode: 04718392

    Occurrence ID: 9dc32c75-05c2-480b-a92f-89c99558ada2

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  • Region

    Africa

  • Country

    Tanzania

  • Locality

    Monduli Dist., T2, Eastern side of Ngorongoro Crater Floor, terminating the northern extension of the Oljoro Nyuki Swamp

  • Elevation

    Alt. 1676 m. (5499 ft.)

  • Location Notes

    [Africa]

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FLORA OF HONDULI DIST., R. TANGANYIKA
Cyperus
A perennial herb with stout rhizomes,
leaves linear 2-ribbed glabrous and
glossy, flowering stem up to 6ft« tall
3-angular with several leaf«*like bracts
at the apex, spikelets yellow-green
flushed brown long and narrow, crowded
in Irregular umbels at the apex of the
flowering stem of about 6 in all#
dominant in a swamp with scattered
clumps of Cyperus immensus and towards
the south large stands of Aesehynomene
and surrounded on the higher ground by
Pennisetum sal if ex then a fringe belt
of Cynodon dactylon-Penriisetum mezianum
and Themeda triandra«KKXKKBI
t« 2, Eastern side of Hgorongoro Crater
Floor, 550ft« alt, terminating the
northern extension of the Oljoro Nyuki
Swamp; 2^/7/1966*
P. J* GREENWAY & KANURI, 12,610*
04718392