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Tetrapogon cenchriformis

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Name

Identification
Tetrapogon cenchriformis (A.Rich.) Clayton [family POACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on sheet, Isotype of Chloris spathacea Hochst. ex Steud. [family POACEAE ] Verified by Not on sheet,
Related name
  • Chloris geminata
  • Cryptochloris spathacea
  • Chloris agowensis
  • Tetrapogon spathaceus
  • Tetrapogon spathacea
  • Tetrapogon macranthus
  • Tetrapogon cymbiferus
  • Lepidopironia cenchriformis
  • Tetrapogon cenchriformis
  • Chloris spathacea
Common name
  • tadjemait (A.Chev.) (MALI, TAMACHEK), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 2
  • bené ekoissé (A.Chev.) bu areiba (A.Chev.) (NIGER, ARABIC (Niger)), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 2

Flora

Entry for TETRAPOGON cenchriformis (A. Rich.) W. D. Clayton [family POACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical East Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of Tropical East Africa, Part (Part 2), page 177, (1974) Author: W. D. CLAYTON, S. M. PHILLIPS AND S. A. RENVOIZE
Names
TETRAPOGON cenchriformis (A. Rich.) W. D. Clayton [family POACEAE], in K.B. 16: 250 (1962); G.T.: 40 (1965); Clayton in F.W.T.A., ed. 2, 3: 399 (1972). Type: Ethiopia, Semien, Wojera [Ouodgerate], Quartin Dillon & Petit (P, holo.!)
Lepidopironia cenchriformis A. Rich. [family POACEAE], Tent. Fl. Abyss. 2: 442, t. 101 (1851)
Chloris spathacea Steud. [family POACEAE], Syn. Pl. Glum. 1: 204 (1854). Type: Sudan, Kordofan, Kotschy 98 (K, iso.!)
Chloris geminata Hochst. [family POACEAE], in Flora 38: 205 (1855). Type: Ethiopia, Schimper in Herb. Buchinger 1370 (P, iso.!)
Cryptochloris spathaceus Benth. [family POACEAE], in Hook., Ic. Pl. 14, t. 1376 (1882). Type: said to be from Patagonia, Middleton (K, holo.!)
Chloris cenchriformis (A. Rich.) Baill. [family POACEAE], in Bull. Soc. Linn. Paris 2: 1070 (1893)
Tetrapogon spathaceus (Steud.) Th. Dur. & Schinz [family POACEAE], Consp. Fl. Afr. 5: 864 (1895); Imp. grassl. pl. Kenya: 35 (1951); F.P.S. 3: 549 (1956); R.K.G.: 24 (1958); I.G.U.: 58 (1960)
Tetrapogon geminatus (Hochst.) Chiov. [family POACEAE], in Ann. Ist. Bot. Roma 6: 171 (1896)
Tetrapogon spathaceus (Benth.) Mackloskie [family POACEAE], in Scott, Rep. Princ. Univ. Exp. Patag. 8: 211 (1904), non (Steud.) Th. Dur. and Schinz
Tetrapogon cymbiferus Peter [family POACEAE], F.D.O.-A. 1, Anh.: 76, fig. 41 (1930). Type: Tanzania, Lushoto District, Buiko, Peter 10983 (B, holo. †, K, iso.!)
Information
Annual or short-lived perennial, loosely to densely tufted, with erect or ascending 3–6-noded culms up to 60 cm. high; nodes black and prominent. Leaf-blades 3–12 cm. long, 2–4 mm. wide, obtuse; sheaths loosely flabellate at the base of the culms. Spikes partially enclosed by the inflated uppermost leaf-sheath, solitary or more rarely paired, 3–6 cm. long. Spikelets 5–9(–12)-flowered, all florets awned, the lower 3–5(–7) florets fertile; glumes lanceolate, acuminate or aristate, the lower 5–9 mm. long, the upper 7–12 mm. long; lowest lemma ovate, 4–6 mm. long, ciliate to villous along the nerves and keel, with an awn 7–11 mm. long; upper (1–)4(–6) florets sterile and reduced to glabrous or sparsely ciliate lemmas. Grain of lowest floret obovate, 2–2.5 mm. long. Fig. 98.
Range
DISTR. U1; K1, 2, 4, 6, 7; T1–3, 7 Cape Verde Is. and Mauritania eastwards to Somali Republic and Arabia
Altitude range
340–1500 m.
Distribution
KENYA Northern Frontier Province Dandu, 2 May 1952, Gillett 13006A!KENYA Masai District near Lake Magadi, July 1956, Trapnell 2246 !KENYA Teita District Murka, 24 May 1967, Hemingway 828 !TANZANIA Shinyanga, Feb. 1935, B. D. Burtt 2635 !TANZANIA Mbulu District Ndala, 22 Mar. 1968, Greenway & Kanuri 13228!TANZANIA Lushoto District Lake Manka, May 1967, Procter 3661!UGANDA Karamoja District Moroto, 23 Aug. 1954, Clayton 72 ! & June 1954, J. Wilson 16 ! & Lodoketeminit, Jan. 1964, Napper !

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