Cyperus bellus
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Habit
03 May 2008
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Inflorescence
15 Jun 2008
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Inflorescence
09 Apr 2009
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Inflorescence
09 Apr 2009
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Inflorescence
12 Apr 2009
| Family: | Cyperaceae |
| Full name: | Cyperus bellus Kunth |
| ID status: | ID not 100% certain |
| Afrikaans common name(s): | - |
| English common name(s): | - |
| Synonym(s): | Cyperus remotiflorus Kük. |
| Status: | Native |
| Description: | Glabrous, annual; stems tufted, 2–7 in. long, slender, trigonous; leaves half as long as the stem, subsetaceous; head of 3–30 spikelets; rays 0–0.333 in. long; bracts 2–3, setaceous, slightly dilated at the base, lowest up to 2 in. long, suberect; spikelets fascicled, 0.5 by 0.0833 in., 26-flowered, or much smaller as in the examples described by Kunth, compressed, with parallel sides, dusky red; glumes boat-shaped, in fruit scarcely overlapping, ovate, obtuse, scarcely mucronate, strongly 5–7-ribbed; rhachilla not winged; stamens 2 or 1; nut small, 1/3– 2/5 the length of the glume, trigonous, obovoid, subobtuse, smooth, dull ashy black; style shorter than the nut; branches 3, linear, shortly exserted from the glume. (from JSTOR Global Plants website / Flora Capensis) |
| Link(s) |
African Plant Database
JSTOR Plant Science Kew Herbarium Catalogue BGBM Berlin-Dahlem - Virtual Herbarium Züricher Herbarien iNaturalist (Namibia / Alex Dreyer) iNaturalist (Namibia) iNaturalist (southern Africa) Flora of Zimbabwe Fleurs de notre Terre - Galerie Namibie Tree Atlas of Namibia |
| Content last updated: | 18 Apr 2024 |
