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Chrysopogon aucheri

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Name

Identification
Chrysopogon aucheri (Boiss.) Stapf [family POACEAE ] (stored under name); Andropogon aucheri Boiss. [family POACEAE ]
Related name
  • Chrysopogon aucheri
  • Chrysopogon plumulosus
  • Chrysopogon quinqueplumis
  • Andropogon aucheri
  • Andropogon chrysopus
  • Chrysopogon montanus

Flora

Entry for CHRYSOPOGON plumulosus Hochst. [family POACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Somalia
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Somalia, Vol 4, (1995) Author: by T. A. Cope [updated by M. Thulin 2008]
Names
CHRYSOPOGON plumulosus Hochst. [family POACEAE], (1847). Fig. 148.
Andropogon quinqueplumis (Hochst. ex A. Rich.) Steud. [family POACEAE], (1854);
Andropogon aucheri (Hochst. ex A. Rich.) Hack. var. quinqueplumis [family POACEAE], in DC., Monogr. Phan. 6: 561 (1889);. [type as above]
Chrysopogon aucheri (Hochst. ex A. Rich.) Stapf var. quinqueplumis [family POACEAE], in Bull. Misc. Inform. 1907: 211 (1907). [type as above]
Chrysopogon aucheri Stapf var. pulvinatus [family POACEAE], in Prain, Fl. Trop. Afr. 9: 161 (1917);. types: N1, “Golis Range”, Drake-Brockman 153 (K syn.), “Upper Sheikh”, Drake-Brockman 558 (K syn.), and others.
Information
Stems wiry, up to 90 cm high; leaves cauline or sometimes forming a compact cushion, glaucous, glabrous to densely puberulous, with or without tubercle-based hairs; basal sheaths laterally compressed or not. Panicle ovate, 3–7 cm long. Sessile spikelet narrowly oblong, 4–6 mm long; upper glume with a plumose awn 7–15 mm long; upper lemma with a puberulous awn 2–3 cm long. Pedicelled spikelet 4–7 mm long, the lower and often also the upper glume bearing a plumose awn up to 15 mm long, this sometimes glabrous near the tip; pedicels 1/3–1/2 the length of the sessile spikelet.
Range
N1–3; C1, 2; S2, 3
Altitude range
50–1800 m.
Distribution
SOMALIA McKinnon 10; Glover & Gilliland 186; Thulin & Warfa 5959; Herlocker 370; Rose Innes 840; Thulin & Dahir 6740; Rose Innes 797.
Distribution (external)
Djibouti
Ethiopia
Sudan
Kenya
Tanzania
Arabia
Notes
Daremo (Som.).

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