Pycreus polystachyos (Rottb.) P.Beauv.
var. polystachyos

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Synonyms: Cyperus chlorostachys Boeck.
Cyperus polystachyos Rottb.
Cyperus polystachyos Ridl. var. chlorostachys (Boeck.) Kük.
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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. polystachyos: Inflorescence simple or capitate; spikelets in digitate clusters, sessile or at the ends of primary branches, primary branches 0─3(─5) cm long.
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Flora of Caprivi: cultivated Pycreus polystachyos var. polystachyos
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African Plants: A Photo Guide (Senckenberg): Pycreus polystachyos
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Mansfeld World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops: Pycreus polystachyos
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Wikipedia: Pycreus polystachyos


Copyright: Mark Hyde, Bart Wursten, Petra Ballings and Meg Coates Palgrave, 2014-24

Hyde, M.A., Wursten, B.T., Ballings, P. & Coates Palgrave, M. (2024). Flora of Caprivi: Species information: Pycreus polystachyos var. polystachyos .
https://www.capriviflora.com/speciesdata/species.php?species_id=228560, retrieved 25 April 2024

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