515.000 Scleria Bergius

Description of the genus

Annual or perennial herbs. Culms ± triangular, leafy. Leaves linear to narrowly oblong. Sheaths closed. Spikelets bearing flowers of one or both sexes; the bisexual spikelets with one basal female and 1-few males above; female spikelet with 1 basal female and 1-2 empty scales or none, above; male spikelets with 1-numerous male flowers. Flowers unisexual, solitary in axils of the glumes, the lower 2-4 glumes empty. Perianth bristles 0. Male flowers consisting of 1-3 stamens. Female flowers with 3 stigmas, not enclosed in a utricle. Nutlet often white, grey or ± black, borne on a hypogynium. Hypogynium often triangular, widened out into a simple or 3-lobed disk or (rarely) a cupule or almost 0.

Worldwide: 200 species in tropical and warm regions

Zimbabwe: 21 taxa.

Scleria bulbifera

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SpeciesFZ divisionsContent
bambariensis Cherm. var. bambariensis W
bulbifera Hochst. ex A.Rich.N,W,C,E,SDescription, Image
calcicola E.A. Rob.NDescription
catophylla C.B. ClarkeEDescription, Image
dregeana KunthN,C,E,SDescription, Image
flexuosa BoeckelerN,W,C,EDescription, Image
foliosa Hochst. ex A.Rich.N,W,C,E,SDescription, Image
griegifolia (Ridl.) C.B. ClarkeN,C,EDescription, Image
lagoensis BoeckelerN,EDescription, Image
melanomphala KunthN,E,SDescription, Image
nyasensis C.B. ClarkeC,EDescription, Image
pachyrrhyncha NelmesE
paupercula E.A. Rob.CDescription, Image
pergracilis (Nees) KunthN,W,C,SDescription, Image
pooides Ridl.W,C,EDescription, Image
racemosa Poir.EDescription, Image
rehmannii C.B. ClarkeN,W,CDescription, Image
schimperiana BoeckelerN,W,CDescription, Image
sp.no.1 (Goodier & Phipps 221)E
welwitschii C.B. ClarkeC,EDescription, Image
woodii C.B.Clarke var. woodii NapperCDescription, Image

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African Plants: A Photo Guide (Senckenberg): Scleria
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IPNI (International Plant Names Index): Scleria
JSTOR Plant Science: Scleria
Mansfeld World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops: Scleria
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Tropicos: Scleria
Wikipedia: Scleria

Copyright: Mark Hyde, Bart Wursten, Petra Ballings and Meg Coates Palgrave, 2002-24

Hyde, M.A., Wursten, B.T., Ballings, P. & Coates Palgrave, M. (2024). Flora of Zimbabwe: Genus page: Scleria.
https://www.zimbabweflora.co.zw/speciesdata/genus.php?genus_id=291, retrieved 19 March 2024

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