Cyperus mapanioides
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Zambezi Source
Record: EA Robinson
Dec 1963
Photocopy: Mike Bingham
Zambezi Rapids
Record: EA Robinson
Dec 1963
Photocopy: Mike Bingham
Mwinilunga District, Wanyizenzi
Jan 1991
Photo: Mike Bingham
Photo: Bart Wursten
Inhamitanga forest, Cheringoma
Photo: Bart Wursten
Inhamitanga forest, Cheringoma
Photo: Bart Wursten
Inhamitanga forest, Cheringoma
Photo: Bart Wursten
Inhamitanga forest, Cheringoma
Photo: Mark Hyde
Nhamacalapia road, Catapu
Photo: Mark Hyde
Nhamacalapia road, Catapu
Photo: Bart Wursten
Southern margin of Inhamitanga Forest near railway line, Coutada 12, Cheringoma
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| Synonyms: |
Cyperus major (Boeckeler) Cherm. |
| Common names: | |
| Frequency: | |
| Status: | Native |
| Description: |
Slender perennial up to 50 cm tall, with thick creeping rhizome, culms sharply 3-angled, sides grooved, glabrous. Involucral bracts 4-7, leaflike. Inflorescence capitate, sometimes loosely so; spikelets 7-20 per head. |
| Type location: |
DR Congo |
| Notes: | For the Flora Zambesiaca area previously only recorded from NW Zambia and Mt Mabu, Mozambique so the specimen in the images (BW1653, EOWBL, BR) represents a first records South of the Zambezi and for the Manica-Sofala Division. (Mike Lock& Jane Browning, pers.comm. 2017) |
| Derivation of specific name: | mapanioides: Resembling the genus Mapania, a genus of tropical sedges; nothing to do with the mopane tree or mopane woodland. |
| Habitat: | In shade in forest |
| Altitude range: (metres) | |
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| Worldwide distribution: | Widespread in tropical west and central Africa, southward to Angola, NW Zambia and Mozambique. |
| FZ divisions: | Z,MS |
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| Endemic status: | |
| Red data list status: | |
| Insects associated with this species: | |
| Spot characters: | Display spot characters for this species |
| Images last updated: | Thursday 7 September 2017 |
| Literature: |
Hoenselaar, K., Verdcourt, B. & Beentje, H.J. (2010). Cyperaceae Flora of Tropical East Africa Pages 167 - 168. |
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