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Panicum bullockii

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Name

Identification
Panicum bullockii Renvoize [family POACEAE ] (stored under name);
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Flora

Entry for Panicum bullockii Renvoize [family GRAMINEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Zambesiaca
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
FZ, Vol 10, Part 3, (1989) Author: W. D. Clayton
Names
Panicum bullockii Renvoize [family GRAMINEAE], in Kew Bull. 44, 3: 543 (1989). Type: Zambia, Chisimba Falls, Drummond & Williamson 10092 (SRGH, holotype; K, isotype).
Information
Rhizomatous perennial; culms 20–40 cm. long, loosely tufted, decumbent or ascending, branching. Leaf laminae 2.5–7 cm. long and 4–10 mm. wide, lanceolate, flat, acute or finely pointed. Panicles 5–7.5 cm. long ovate-oblong, moderately to sparsely branched, pilose, with or without clavellate hairs. Spikelets 2.5–3 mm. long, oblong, obtuse; inferior glume 1/2 the length of the spikelet, ovate, 5–7-nerved; superior glume 9-nerved; inferior lemma 9-nerved, its palea moderately developed, sterile; superior lemma and palea glossy, pallid.
Habitat
Woodland or mountain slopes, on arenaceous soils
Range
Only known from northern Zambia
Altitude range
1750–2200 m.
2200
1750
Distribution
Zambia N Chisimba Falls, 28.11.1970, Drummond & Williamson 10092 (K; SRGH).

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