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the web of life in southern Africa

Genus: Kyllinga

Life > eukaryotes > Archaeoplastida > Chloroplastida > Charophyta > Streptophytina > Plantae (land plants) > Tracheophyta (vascular plants) > Euphyllophyta > Lignophyta (woody plants) > Spermatophyta (seed plants) > Angiospermae (flowering plants) > Monocotyledons > Order: Poales > Family: Cyperaceae

About 60 species (warm, moist regions of the world), with 18 species native to southern Africa.

Species native to southern Africa

List from Plants of Southern Africa - an Online Checklist (SANBI) and Flora of Zimbabwe.

Kyllinga alata

 

Kyllinga alba

 

Kyllinga albiceps

[= Kyllinga merxmuelleri]

 

Kyllinga brevifolia

 

Kyllinga bulbosa

Recorded from Zimbabwe.

 

Kyllinga crassipes

Recorded from Zimbabwe.

Kyllinga elatior

 

Kyllinga erecta

Kyllinga melanosperma

 

Kyllinga nemoralis

 

Kyllinga odorata

 

Kyllinga pauciflora

 

Kyllinga platyphylla

Recorded from Zimbabwe.

 

Kyllinga polyphylla

 

Kyllinga pulchella

 

Kyllinga pumila

Recorded from Zimbabwe. See Flora of Zimbabwe.

 

Kyllinga squamulata

Recorded from Zimbabwe.

Kyllinga welwitschii