Scleria globonux C.B. Clarke

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Scleria globonux

25 km west of Kasama
Record: EA Robinson
May 1961
Photocopy: Mike Bingham

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Annual, sparingly hairy, 0.5─1 m tall. Inflorescence of a terminal panicle and 2─3 lateral panicles occurring singly at the nodes on long flexuous hairy peduncles. Nutlet hairy, white or rusty-red, nearly globose, approximately 3x2.5 mm.
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Sudan (South Sudan?)
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Derivation of specific name: globonux: nut globose
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Worldwide distribution: Regional:Zambia
Global: tropical West and East Africa.
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Literature:

Hoenselaar, K., Verdcourt, B. & Beentje, H.J. (2010). Cyperaceae Flora of Tropical East Africa Pages 402 - 403.


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