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515.000 Scleria
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. |
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| Species | FZ divisions | Content |
| bambariensis Cherm. var. bambariensis | W | |
| bulbifera Hochst. ex A.Rich. | N,W,C,E,S | Description, Image |
| calcicola E.A. Rob. | N | Description |
| catophylla C.B. Clarke | E | Description, Image |
| dregeana Kunth | N,C,E,S | Description, Image |
| flexuosa Boeckeler | N,W,C,E | Description, Image |
| foliosa Hochst. ex A.Rich. | N,W,C,E,S | Description, Image |
| griegifolia (Ridl.) C.B. Clarke | N,C,E | Description, Image |
| lagoensis Boeckeler | N,E | Description, Image |
| melanomphala Kunth | N,E,S | Description, Image |
| nyasensis C.B. Clarke | C,E | Description, Image |
| pachyrrhyncha Nelmes | E | |
| paupercula E.A. Rob. | C | Description, Image |
| pergracilis (Nees) Kunth | N,W,C,S | Description, Image |
| pooides Ridl. | W,C,E | Description, Image |
| racemosa Poir. | E | Description, Image |
| rehmannii C.B. Clarke | N,W,C | Description, Image |
| schimperiana Boeckeler | N,W,C | Description, Image |
| sp.no.1 (Goodier & Phipps 221) | E | |
| welwitschii C.B. Clarke | C,E | Description, Image |
| woodii C.B.Clarke var. woodii Napper | C | Description, Image |
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External websites:
African Plants: A Photo Guide (Senckenberg): ScleriaBHL (Biodiversity Heritage Library): Scleria
EOL (Encyclopedia of Life): 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
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