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MARISCUS Vahl
MONANDRUS Vorster
Perennial, less often annual, herbs, tufted or with rhizomes or stolons, sometimes producing tubers or bulbs. Culms usually triangular. Leaves usually at or near the base of the culm, the culm base sometimes swollen, 3-ranked, linear and grass-like, the lower ones often scale-like. Inflorescence terminal, often a subumbel-like anthela or congested into a dense head; subtended by leaf-like involucral bracts. Spikelets 1-many-flowered. Glumes distichous. Perianth 0. Stamens 1-3. Stigmas 2-3, if 2, then nutlet dorsally flattened. Fruit a nutlet, usually dorsally flattened. Worldwide: c. 300 species in warm and tropical countries Zambia: 69 taxa. |
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| Species | FZ divisions | Content |
| absconditicoronatus Bauters, Reyn-ders & Goetgh. | W | |
| albopilosus (C.B.Clarke) Kük. | ||
| albostriatus Schrad. | Description, Image | |
| alopecuroides Rottb. | Image | |
| altochrysocephalus Lye[DD] | ||
| amabilis Vahl | B,N,W,C,E,S | Description, Image |
| amauropus Steud. | ||
| angolensis Boeckeler | B,C,E,S | Description, Image |
| articulatus L. | B,N,W,C,S | Description, Image |
| aureo-brunneus C.B.Clarke | N | Image |
| clavinux C.B. Clarke | ||
| compressus L. | B | Description, Image |
| congestus Vahl | ||
| cuspidatus Kunth | ||
| cyperoides (L.) Kuntze | N,C | Description, Image |
| deciduus Boeckeler | ||
| denudatus L.f. | N,W,C,E,S | Description, Image |
| derreilema Steud. | ||
| dichrostachyus Hochst. ex A.Rich. | ||
| difformis L. | N,E,S | Description, Image |
| digitatus Roxb. var. digitatus | Image | |
| digitatus Roxb. subsp. auricomus (Sieber ex Spreng.) Kük. | B,N,C,S | Description, Image |
| distans L.f. | N,W,C,S | Description, Image |
| dives Delile | ||
| dubius Rottb. | B,C,S | Description, Image |
| esculentus L. | N,W,C,S | Description, Image |
| fulgens sensu Vorster ms. | ||
| haspan L. | ||
| imbricatus Retz. | B,N,C,S | Description, Image |
| involucratus Rottb. | C | Description, Image |
| kasamensis Podlech[DD] | ||
| laevigatus L. | E,S | Description, Image |
| latifolius Poir. | ||
| laxus Lam. subsp. sylvestris (Ridl.) Lye | N,W,C,S | Description, Image |
| longus L. var. tenuiflorus (Rottb.) Kük. | B,E,S | Description, Image |
| longus L. var. longus | S | |
| maculatus Boeckeler | ||
| mapanioides C.B. Clarke | W | Description, Image |
| margaritaceus Vahl | Image | |
| matagoroensis Muasya & D.A. Simpson[NrEnd] | Description, Image | |
| mollipes (C.B. Clarke) K. Schum. | S | Description, Image |
| mwinilungensis Podlech | N,C,S | Description, Image |
| nduru Cherm. | N,W,C,E,S | Description, Image |
| niveus Retz. var. leucocephalus (Kunth) Fosberg | N,C,E,S | Description, Image |
| niveus Retz. var. tisserantii (Cherm.) K. Lye | N | Description, Image |
| papyrus L. | B,N | Description, Image |
| pectinatus Vahl | B,N,C,S | Description, Image |
| pluribracteatus (Kük.) Govaerts | Description, Image | |
| procerus Rottb. | Image | |
| pseudoleptocladus Kük. | ||
| pseudovestitus (C.B.Clarke) Kük. | ||
| pubens Kük. | N,W,C,S | Description, Image |
| pulchellus R. Br. | S | Description, Image |
| pygmaeus Rottb. | ||
| renschii Boeck. | N | Description, Image |
| rhynchosporoides Kuekenth. | B,W | Image |
| robinsonii Podl.[DD] | Description | |
| rotundus L. | N,S | Description, Image |
| rupestris Kunth | ||
| schinzii Boeckeler | ||
| squarrosus L. | C,S | Description, Image |
| tenax Boeckeler | ||
| tenuiculmis Boeckeler | ||
| tenuispica Steud. | ||
| turrillii Kük. | B,C,S | Description, Image |
| usitatus Burch. subsp. palmatus Lye | ||
| usitatus Burch. subsp. usitatus var. macrobulbus Kük. | ||
| zambesiensis C.B.Clarke[DD] | Description | |
| zollingeri Steud. |
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