Entry for STREPTOGYNA crinita P. Beauv. [family POACEAE]
Entry From
Flora of Tropical East Africa, Part (Part 1), page 1, (1970) Author: W. D. Clayton
Names
STREPTOGYNA crinita P. Beauv. [family POACEAE], Ess. Agrost.: 80, t. 16/8 (1812); C. E. Hubbard in Hook., Ic. Pl. 36, t. 3572 (1956); F.P.S. 3: 549 (1956); G.T.: 12 (1965). Type: Nigeria, Palisot de Beauvois (G, holo.!)
STREPTOGYNA gerontogaea Hook. f. [family POACEAE], in Trimen, Fl. Ceyl. 5: 301 (1900); Ann. list. grasses Ug.: 58 (1947). Type: Ceylon, Thwaites 922 (K, holo.!)
Distribution
TANGANYIKA Ulanga District near Kiberege, Maganga–Mangula, Oct. 1960, Haerdi 614/0!UGANDA Acholi District Gulu, Zoka Forest, 17 Nov. 1941, A. S. Thomas 4031!UGANDA Mengo District Damba I., Muvo Landing, 22 Dec. 1949, Dawkins 459! & Damba I., 3 Apr. 1925, Maitland 801!
Notes
The name S. crinita has commonly been misapplied to the American species S. americana C. E. Hubbard. The latter is a caespitose plant without rhizomes, and with narrower leaf-blades, glabrous lemma, callus and ovary, and 3 scaberulous stigmas. The dispersal mechanism is unusual, for the springy rhachilla-internode appressed to the base of the lemma makes a most effective trap for hairs; at maturity the disarticulated lemmas dangle like fish-hooks from their tangled stigmas.