Abolboda ciliata Maguire & Wurdack
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Authority
Maguire, Bassett & Wurdack, John J. 1958. The botany of the Guayana Highland--Part III. Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 10: 1-156.
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Family
Xyridaceae
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Scientific Name
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Description
Latin Diagnosis - Herbae perennes caudicibus erectis 6-8 cm longis, 2.5-3.0 mm diam.; foliis rosulatis linearibus 4—9 cm longis, 1.5-3.0 mm latis, plano-triquetris marginibus involutis serrulato-ciliatis, apice truncato, unilateraliter mucronato-adunculatis, basi expansa scariosa amplectanti; scapo solitario axillari, 15-25 cm longo, ca. 1.5 mm diam.; bracteis 1 jugo subappositis amplectantibus lineari-lanceolatis ca. 4 cm longis, late scariosomarginatis obtusis, in medio scapo vel sursum affixis; spicis globosis vel obpyriformibus, ca. 15 mm longis, ca. 10-floris; bracteis subtendentibus 2, lanceolatis late scariosomarginatis, 12-14 mm longis; sepalis 2, navicularibus carinatis ca. 8 mm longis, late scarioso-marginatis; ovario obpyriformi, ca. 5 mm longo, 2.5-3.0 mm lato. apice 3-lobato, lobis 0.8 mm longis erosis; seminibus oblique ovali-oblongis, 10-12 spiraliter costatis, rubro-brunneis, 1.0-1.2 mm longis, 0.6 mm latis.
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Discussion
Type: perennial herb, fruiting only, locally frequent in boggy open cumbre savanna. 5 km. west Cumbre Camp, at 1900 m alt., Cerro de la Neblina, Terr. Amazonas, Venezuela, Jan 6. 1954, Maguire, Wurdack cC Bunting 37132 (holotype NY).
Known only by the type collection.