Cyperaceae
Cyperus
Cyperus alatus

Cyperus alatus subsp. albus (Nees) Lye

First published in Lidia 3: 172 (1995)
This subspecies is accepted
The native range of this subspecies is Tropical & S. Africa, Seychelles. It is a perennial or rhizomatous geophyte and grows primarily in the seasonally dry tropical biome.

Distribution

Native to:

Angola, Botswana, Cape Provinces, Chad, Congo, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Free State, Gabon, Ghana, Ivory Coast, Kenya, KwaZulu-Natal, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Nigeria, Northern Provinces, Seychelles, Somalia, Sudan, Swaziland, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, Zambia, Zaïre, Zimbabwe

Synonyms

Homotypic Synonyms

Heterotypic Synonyms

Classification

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Publications

An alternative taxonomy had been proposed by the following authorities:

  • Govaerts, R. & Simpson, D.A. (2007). World Checklist of Cyperaceae. Sedges: 1-765. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. [Cited as Kyllinga alba.]
  • Govaerts, R. (1999). World Checklist of Seed Plants 3(1, 2a & 2b): 1-1532. MIM, Deurne. [Cited as Kyllinga alba.]

Kew Backbone Distributions

  • Sita, P. & Moutsambote, J.-M. (2005). Catalogue des plantes vasculaires du Congo, ed. sept. 2005: 1-158. ORSTOM, Centre de Brazzaville.
  • Sosef, M.S.M. & al. (2006). Check-list des plantes vasculaires du Gabon. Scripta Botanica Belgica 35: 1-438.

Other Data

Other Kew resources that provide information on this taxon:

Date Reference Identified As Barcode Type Status Has image?
Mar 18, 1896 Cooper, T. [919] South Africa Kyllinga alba K000416357 Unknown Type Material Yes
M.M.C.; M.M.; A.F.B.; A.D.B. [Bot. 211] Botswana Kyllinga alba K001611501 Yes
M.M.C.; M.M.; A.F.B.; A.D.B. [Bot. 211] Botswana Kyllinga alba K001611626 Yes
Merrett, L.; Vollesen, K. & Bidgood, S. [9964] Zambia Kyllinga alba K001567214 Yes
Drege [1840] South Africa Kyllinga alba K000416355 Unknown Type Material Yes
Merrett, L. [9061] Zambia Kyllinga alba K001528843 Yes
s.coll. [B 7965] Botswana Kyllinga alba K001611604 Yes
Wightman, N. [NCW403] Zambia Kyllinga alba K001870037 Yes
Humbert, H. [7594] Congo, Democratic Republic of the Kyllinga alba K000416269 Type Yes
Merrett, L. [2272] Zambia Kyllinga alba K001614471 Yes
Peter, A. [45712] Tanzania Kyllinga alba K000416316 Type Yes
Aug 1, 1965 Barter [1588] Nigeria Kyllinga nigritana K000416262 Unknown Type Material Yes
Drege [3930] South Africa Kyllinga cristata K000416356 Type Yes
Zehyer [1768] South Africa Kyllinga cristata K000416354 Unknown Type Material Yes
Lea, J., H.M. [6021] South Africa Kyllinga cristata K000416352 Unknown Type Material Yes
Drege [3930] South Africa Kyllinga cristata K000416353 Isolectotype Yes

Sources

  • Flora Zambesiaca

    • Flora Zambesiaca
    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0

  • Flora of Tropical East Africa

    • Flora of Tropical East Africa
    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0

  • Flora of West Tropical Africa

    • Flora of West Tropical Africa
    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0

  • Herbarium Catalogue Specimens

    • Digital Image © Board of Trustees, RBG Kew http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

  • Kew Backbone Distributions

    • The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2024. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
    • © Copyright 2023 World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0

  • Kew Names and Taxonomic Backbone

    • The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2024. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
    • © Copyright 2023 International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0

  • Kew Science Photographs

    • Copyright applied to individual images

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    • Common Names from Plants and People Africa http://www.plantsandpeopleafrica.com/
    • © Plants and People Africa http://www.plantsandpeopleafrica.com http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/