Acaulescent or short-stemmed biennial or perennial geophytes. Stem usually swollen toform a bulb or tuberous rhizome, rarely a corm, covered with the dry remains ofsheathing leaf-bases. Leaves linear, filiform, lanceolate or rarely ovate, flat, terete orcylindrical and hollow, bases sheathing, veins parallel. Scape leafless, terete, flat orcylindrical and hollow. Inflorescence an umbel, subtended by (1- )2 ( -several)membranous spathaceous-bracts; bracts enveloping young flower buds; pedicelssometimes further subtended by smaller membranous bracts. Flowers hermaphrodite, actinomorphic. Perianth t ...

Prepared at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, in close collaboration with the East African Herbarium and in liaison with the University of Dar es Salaam, the University of Nairobi and the Makerere University, this series is designed to the highest academic standards and is a useful reference for anyone concerned with the identification and utilization of plants in eastern Africa. Each family is published as a separate part.

Prepared at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, in close collaboration with the East African Herbarium and in liaison with the University of Dar es Salaam, the University of Nairobi and the Makerere University, this series is designed to the highest academic standards and is a useful reference for anyone concerned with the identification and utilization of plants in eastern Africa. Each family is published as a separate part.

Prepared at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, in close collaboration with the East African Herbarium and in liaison with the University of Dar es Salaam, the University of Nairobi and the Makerere University, this series is designed to the highest academic standards and is a useful reference for anyone concerned with the identification and utilization of plants in eastern Africa. Each family is published as a separate part.

Prepared at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, in close collaboration with the East African Herbarium and in liaison with the University of Dar es Salaam, the University of Nairobi and the Makerere University, this series is designed to the highest academic standards and is a useful reference for anyone concerned with the identification and utilization of plants in eastern Africa. Each family is published as a separate part.

This volume is a reference on the flora of Eastern Africa and refers specifically to the family Equisetaceae. It is designed for those concerned with the identification and utilization of plants in Eastern Africa.