Cyperaceae taxon details
Fuirena mutali Muasya & Nordal
1679828 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:1679828)
accepted
Species
terrestrial
Hoenselaar, K.; Verdcourt, B.; Beentje, H.J. (2010). Cyperaceae. In: H.J. Beentje (ed). Flora of Tropical East Africa, 472 pp. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew., available online at https://kew.iro.bl.uk/downloads/e6c6e145-4e6e-419b-a8b6-f808b06f437e?locale=en
page(s): 16 [details]
page(s): 16 [details]
Holotype , geounit Pongwe
Holotype , geounit Pongwe [details]
Description Slender annual, culm 10–30 cm tall, leaf-sheath hairy, lowest leaf blades reduced to lobes, upper blades to 12 cm long,...
Taxonomic remark Source in seed data: wcs Update namepublishedIn from Fl. Trop. E. Africa, Cyp. 16. 2010 [Oct 2010] to Fl. Trop. E. Africa...
Description Slender annual, culm 10–30 cm tall, leaf-sheath hairy, lowest leaf blades reduced to lobes, upper blades to 12 cm long, hairy, ligule hairy to almost smooth, inflorescence a cluster of 3 to many spikelets, spikelet sessile or stalked, 4–7 mm long and 2–3 mm wide, terete, many-flowered, glume 1.8–2 mm long excluding a straight or recurved mucro 0.8–1.9 mm long, hairy, perianth segments 6 in 2 whorls, outer 3 segments bristles with conspicuous recurved spines, inner 3 segments as long as the nutlet, comprising a smooth stalk ending in a sagittate lamina whose lower tips are elongated and recurved towards the stalk, lamina has a midrib and two lateral veins, nutlet brownish, 0.9–1 mm long and 0.6–0.7 mm wide, surface concave and smooth, base obtuse. [details]
Taxonomic remark Source in seed data: wcs Update namepublishedIn from Fl. Trop. E. Africa, Cyp. 16. 2010 [Oct 2010] to Fl. Trop. E. Africa...
Taxonomic remark Source in seed data: wcs Update namepublishedIn from Fl. Trop. E. Africa, Cyp. 16. 2010 [Oct 2010] to Fl. Trop. E. Africa , Cyperac.: 16 (2010), information provided by Alan E. on email Jun. 07 2021 More details could be found in [details]
Cyperaceae Working Group. (2025). [see How to cite]. Global Cyperaceae Database. Fuirena mutali Muasya & Nordal. Accessed at: https://cyperaceae.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1679828 on 2026-05-30
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Nomenclature
original description
Hoenselaar, K.; Verdcourt, B.; Beentje, H.J. (2010). Cyperaceae. In: H.J. Beentje (ed). Flora of Tropical East Africa, 472 pp. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew., available online at https://kew.iro.bl.uk/downloads/e6c6e145-4e6e-419b-a8b6-f808b06f437e?locale=en
page(s): 16 [details]
basis of record Plants of the World Online (POWO). , available online at https://powo.science.kew.org/ [details]
page(s): 16 [details]
basis of record Plants of the World Online (POWO). , available online at https://powo.science.kew.org/ [details]
Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
Holotype , geounit Pongwe [details]
From editor or global species database
Description Slender annual, culm 10–30 cm tall, leaf-sheath hairy, lowest leaf blades reduced to lobes, upper blades to 12 cm long, hairy, ligule hairy to almost smooth, inflorescence a cluster of 3 to many spikelets, spikelet sessile or stalked, 4–7 mm long and 2–3 mm wide, terete, many-flowered, glume 1.8–2 mm long excluding a straight or recurved mucro 0.8–1.9 mm long, hairy, perianth segments 6 in 2 whorls, outer 3 segments bristles with conspicuous recurved spines, inner 3 segments as long as the nutlet, comprising a smooth stalk ending in a sagittate lamina whose lower tips are elongated and recurved towards the stalk, lamina has a midrib and two lateral veins, nutlet brownish, 0.9–1 mm long and 0.6–0.7 mm wide, surface concave and smooth, base obtuse. [details]Taxonomic remark Source in seed data: wcs Update namepublishedIn from Fl. Trop. E. Africa, Cyp. 16. 2010 [Oct 2010] to Fl. Trop. E. Africa , Cyperac.: 16 (2010), information provided by Alan E. on email Jun. 07 2021 More details could be found in [details]
