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Sporobolus marginatus

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Name

Identification
Sporobolus marginatus Hochst. ex A.Rich. [family POACEAE ]
Related name
  • Sporobolus marginatus

Flora

Entry for SPOROBOLUS ioclados (Nees ex Trin.) Nees [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
SPOROBOLUS ioclados (Nees ex Trin.) Nees [family POACEAE], (1841).
SPOROBOLUS marginatus Hochst. ex A. Rich. [family POACEAE], (1850).
SPOROBOLUS arabicus Boiss. [family POACEAE], (1853).
SPOROBOLUS genalensis Chiov. [family POACEAE], (1940);. type: S2, Bigi 22 (FT syn.).
Information
Tussocky perennial, often with creeping stolons, up to 80 cm high; leaves flat or rolled, harsh or soft, often pungent; basal sheaths persistent, chartaceous, often keeled and flabellate. Panicle narrowly ovate to pyramidal, 4–15 cm long; primary branches in whorls (at least the lowermost), bare of spikelets in the lower 1/4–1/3. Spikelets 1.5–3(–3.3) mm long; lower glume narrowly ovate to narrowly oblong, 0.5–1 mm long, obtuse; upper glume narrowly ovate to lanceolate, (1/2-)2/3 as long to as long as the spikelet; lemma lanceolate-elliptic, as long as the spikelet or almost so; anthers 3, 0.9–1.4 mm long. Grain ellipsoid, 0.8–1.2 mm long.
Range
N1, 2; C1, 2; S1–3 tropical Africa to India and Sri Lanka.
Altitude range
15–1600 m.
Distribution
SOMALIA Wood 71/11; Collenette 107; Herlocker 331; Rose Innes 799; Gillett & Hemming 24329; Kuchar 17689; Hemming & Deshmukh 65.
Notes
Iyon-jabi, timo-hwelli, timo-nagodleh, xilfo (Som.).

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