Sehima galpiniiStent [family POACEAE ] (stored under name);
Related name
Sehima galpinii
Flora
Entry for Sehima galpinii Stent [family GRAMINEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Zambesiaca
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
FZ, Vol 10, Part 4, (2002) Author: T. A. Cope
Names
Sehima galpiniiStent [family GRAMINEAE], in Bothalia 1: 239, t. 2 (1924). —Chippindall in Meredith, Grasses & Pastures S. Africa: 489 (1955). —Gibbs Russell et al., Grasses South. Africa [Mem. Bot. Surv. S. Africa No. 58]: 293 (1990). Type from South Africa (Transvaal).
Information
Robust perennial up to 180 cm high; basal leaf sheaths densely pilose. Racemes 7–19 cm long, ± straight to gently curved. Sessile spikelet 12–15 mm long, dorsally compressed; inferior glume oblong-elliptic, polished-coriaceous and faintly nerved below, thinner and conspicuously nerved above, often with transverse nerves connecting the longitudinal, with shallowly bifid to ± entire membranous apex less than 1/5 the length of the body, 2-keeled, flat or shallowly convex between the keels, inconspicuously lyrately-nerved with the nerves ± equally spaced; superior lemma with an awn 2.5–4 cm long, the column minutely ciliolate along the edges of the coils. Pedicelled spikelet 10–13 mm long, shortly ciliolate, the inferior glume with a midnerve and 2–3 conspicuous lateral nerves adjacent to each keel.
Habitat
Growing in open forest
Altitude range
35–140 m.
140
35
Distribution
Mozambique M between Goba and Catuane, 27.x.1940, Torre 1931 (LISC).
Distribution (external)
South Africa (Transvaal, KwaZulu-Natal)
Swaziland
Notes
The species is distinguished from the following by the pilose basal leaf sheaths and flat or convex inferior glume of the sessile spikelet polished-coriaceous and inconspicuously nerved below. It replaces S. nervosum in southern tropical Africa.