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Perennial with culms tufted or with a short, or rarely elongated rhizome; stem almost rounded, 10─65 cm tall. Leaves from near the base only. Involucral bracts 1─3, the largest to 5 cm long. Inflorescence a terminal head of 3─12 ovoid to cylindrical-conical spikes; spikelet bracts dark red-brown with pale green midrib and tip. |
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Chapano, C. & Mamuto, M. (2003). Plants of the Chimanimani District National Herbarium and Botanic Garden, Zimbabwe Page 37. Hoenselaar, K., Verdcourt, B. & Beentje, H.J. (2010). Cyperaceae Flora of Tropical East Africa Page 355. 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 88. As Lipocarpha atra var. atra 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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