Pycreus polystachyos (Rottb.) P. Beauv.
var. laxiflorus (Benth.) C.B.Clarke

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Pycreus polystachyos var. laxiflorus

Picture: Sune Holt
Pambarra, Vilanculos Distr., Inhambane, Mozambique

Pycreus polystachyos var. laxiflorus

Picture: Sune Holt
Pambarra, Vilanculos Distr., Inhambane, Mozambique

Pycreus polystachyos var. laxiflorus

Picture: Sune Holt
Pambarra, Vilanculos Distr., Inhambane, Mozambique

Pycreus polystachyos var. laxiflorus

Picture: Sune Holt
Pambarra, Vilanculos Distr., Inhambane, Mozambique

Pycreus polystachyos var. laxiflorus

Picture: Sune Holt
Ilha do Bazaruto, Inhambane, Mozambique

Pycreus polystachyos var. laxiflorus

Picture: Sune Holt
Ilha do Bazaruto, Inhambane, Mozambique

Pycreus polystachyos var. laxiflorus

Picture: Sune Holt
Ilha do Bazaruto, Inhambane, Mozambique

Pycreus polystachyos var. laxiflorus

Choma E, 8 km
Record: EA Robinson
Mar 1955
Photocopy: Mike Bingham

Pycreus polystachyos var. laxiflorus

Mapanza, Simasunda
Record: EA Robinson; 1957
Photocopy: Mike Bingham

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Synonyms: Cyperus polystachyos Rottb. var. laxiflorus Benth.
Cyperus polystachyos Rottb. var. laxiflorus (Benth.) Lye
Common names:
Frequency:
Status: Native
Description:
Annual or short-lived perennial, sometimes producing small stolons; culms tufted, 18─68 cm long, 1.3 mm wide, 3-angled, smooth. Inflorescence capitate or simple. Spikelets crowded in dense digitate clusters, sessile or at the ends of primary branches.
var. laxiflorus: Inflorescence simple; spikelets clustered at end of primary branches on elongated axis, primary branches 2.7─8 cm long.
Type location:
Australia
Notes:
Derivation of specific name:
Habitat:
Altitude range: Up to 1500 m
Flowering time:
Worldwide distribution: Cosmopolitan in tropical, subtropical and warm temperate climates.
Zambian distribution (Flora Zambesiaca): B,C,E,S
Zambian distribution (Provinces): E,Lk,S,W
Growth form(s): Annual.
Endemic status:
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Content last updated: Thursday 16 February 2017
Literature:

Chapano, C. & Mamuto, M. (2003). Plants of the Chimanimani District National Herbarium and Botanic Garden, Zimbabwe Page 47.

Chapano, C. & Mugarisanwa, N.H. (2003). Plants of the Matobo District National Herbarium and Botanic Garden, Zimbabwe Page 30. As Pycreus polystachyos laxiflorus

Gordon-Gray, K.D. (1995). Cyperaceae in Natal Strelitzia 2 Pages 147 - 148.

Heath, A. & Heath, R. (2009). Field Guide to the Plants of Northern Botswana including the Okavango Delta Kew Publishing Page 548. as Pycreus polystachyos var. polystachyos (Includes a picture).

Hoenselaar, K., Verdcourt, B. & Beentje, H.J. (2010). Cyperaceae Flora of Tropical East Africa Pages 289 - 291.

Mapaura, A. & Timberlake, J. (eds) (2004). A checklist of Zimbabwean vascular plants Southern African Botanical Diversity Network Report No. 33 Sabonet, Pretoria and Harare Page 89.

Setshogo, M.P. (2005). Preliminary checklist of the plants of Botswana. Sabonet Report no. 37. Sabonet, Pretoria and Gaborone Page 120.

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Bingham, M.G., Willemen, A., Wursten, B.T., Ballings, P. and Hyde, M.A. (2024). Flora of Zambia: Species information: Pycreus polystachyos var. laxiflorus.
https://www.zambiaflora.com/speciesdata/species.php?species_id=110110, retrieved 29 March 2024

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