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Arundinella nepalensis

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Name

Identification
Arundinella nepalensis Trin. [family POACEAE ] (stored under name); Arundinella ecklonii Nees [family POACEAE ]
Related name
  • Arundinella nepalensis
  • Arundinella ecklonii

Flora

Entry for ARUNDINELLA nepalensis Trin. [family POACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical East Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of Tropical East Africa, Part (Part 2), page 177, (1974) Author: W. D. CLAYTON, S. M. PHILLIPS AND S. A. RENVOIZE
Names
ARUNDINELLA nepalensis Trin. [family POACEAE], ,Gram. Pan.: 62 (1826) & Spec. Gram.: 3, fig. 268 (1836); R.K.G.: 35 (1958); Ann. list Nyasaland grasses: 30 (1958); G.T.: 51 (1965); Clayton in F.W.T.A., ed. 2, 3: 414 (1972). Type: India, Nepal, Wallich (?) in Lindley (LE, holo., K, ? iso.!)
ARUNDINELLA ecklonii Nees [family POACEAE], Fl. Afr. Austr.: 80 (1841); Hubbard in F.T.A. 10: 2 (1937). Types: South Africa, Kei R., Drège (K, isosyn. !) and several other specimens collected by Drège & Ecklon
ARUNDINELLA rigida Nees [family POACEAE], Fl. Afr. Austr.: 80 (1841). Type: South Africa, Namaqualand, Kamiesberg, Ecklon (B, holo.)
Information
Tufted perennial with short scaly rhizomes; culms 60–180 cm. high, erect. Leaf-blades linear or convolute, 8–30 cm. long, 3–10 mm. wide, stiff, scaberulous, glabrous or ± hirsute. Panicle oblong, open or contracted, 10–40 cm. long, the branches subsecund and densely spiculate. Spikelets lanceolate, 4–6 mm. long, glabrous; lower glume ovate, 3–5 mm. long, acutely or setaceously acuminate; upper glume narrowly ovate, acuminate with an obtuse tip; lower lemma 3–4 mm. long, obtuse; upper lemma ovate, 2–2.5 mm. long, emarginate with a geniculate awn 4–6 mm. long; callus bearded with hairs 0.5–1 mm. long; palea with door-like flaps. Fig. 111.
Range
DISTR. K4, 5; T2, 4–7 Senegal to Guinée; Zambia to South Africa; Madagascar; India to China and Australia
Altitude range
1350–1950 m.
Distribution
KENYA Fort Hall District 3 km. N. of Thika, 1 Jan. 1949, Bogdan 2180 !KENYA Kiambu District Ruiru, 28 June 1951, Bogdan 3124 !KENYA N. Kavirondo District 13 km. E. of Bungoma, 27 June 1955, Bogdan 4044 !TANZANIA Arusha District Ngurdoto, S. slope, 13 June 1967, Vesey-FitzGerald 5273 !TANZANIA Iringa District W. Mufindi, 4 Aug. 1933, Greenway 3486 ! & Mufindi, Lake Ngwazi, 7 May 1968, Renvoize & Abdallah 1989 !
Notes
Closely allied to A. hispida (Willd.) Kuntze (A. brasiliensis Raddi) of tropical America, which has slightly smaller spikelets (3–4 mm. long).

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