Compilation
Acroceras zizanioides

55 Images see all

Previous
Next

Name

Identification
Acroceras zizanioides (Kunth) Dandy [family POACEAE ] (stored under name); Isotype of Panicum zizanioides Kunth [family POACEAE ]
Related name
  • Panicum pseudoryzoides
  • Acroceras oryzoides
  • Panicum melicoides
  • Panicum oryzoides
  • Panicum lutetense
  • Acroceras zizanioides
  • Panicum agowensis
  • Panicum zizanioides
  • Panicum ogowense
Common name
  • g-bati (FCD) m-bowi general for certain types of grasses (NWT) kotopoi (FCD) k-pagσ (FCD) pisui (NWT; JMD) yuwi (NWT; JMD) (SIERRA LEONE, MENDE), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 2
  • ngon (Rogeon fide JMD) (MALI, MANDING-BAMBARA), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 2
  • iyè-ẹtu (Dawodu; JMD) (NIGERIA, YORUBA), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 2
  • tamidisεra-na (FCD) (SIERRA LEONE, YALUNKA), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 2
  • (Guinea-Bissau) québè-fárô (JDES) (GUINEA-BISSAU, FULA-PULAAR), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 2
  • kbaraga (NWT) (SIERRA LEONE, LOKO), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 2
  • kσbσlσ (NWT) (SIERRA LEONE, KORANKO), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 2
  • bakabinε (FCD) (SIERRA LEONE, KONO), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 2
  • ε-kbil (NWT) ka-rin-ka-sui (NWT; JMD) (SIERRA LEONE, TEMNE), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 2
  • barεkσre (NWT) mεlkσre (NWT) sunyugi (NWT; JMD) (SIERRA LEONE, SUSU), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 2
  • kσbσrч́ (FCD) (SIERRA LEONE, MANDING-MANDINKA), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 2
  • géérón tsúntssayéé = bird’s millet (JMD) (NIGERIA, HAUSA), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 2

Flora

Entry for ACROCERAS zizanioides (Kunth) Dandy [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, page 451, (1982) Author: W. D. CLAYTON and S.A. RENVOIZE
Names
ACROCERAS zizanioides (Kunth) Dandy [family POACEAE], in J.B. 69: 54 (1931); Fl. Agrost. Congo Belge 2: 67 (1934); Ann. list grasses Ug.: 1 (1947); Troupin, Fl. Garamba 1: 17 (1956); F.P.S. 3: 385 (1956); I.G.U.: 13 (1960); G.T.: 79 (1965); Clayton in F.W.T.A., ed. 2, 3: 435 (1972). Type: Colombia, Borjorque to Los Paxaroles de Sogamozo, Humboldt (B, holo., K, microfiche!)
Panicum oryzoides Sw. [family POACEAE], Prodr. Veg. Ind. Occ: 23 (1788), non Ard. (1763). Type: Jamaica, Swartz (S, holo.!)
Panicum zizanioides Kunth [family POACEAE], in Humb. & Bonpl., Nov. Gen. Sp. 1: 100 (1816)
Panicum ogowense Franch. [family POACEAE], in Bull. Soc. Hist. Nat. Autun 8: 344 (1895). Types: Congo (Brazzaville), Ogooué, Thollon 727 (P, syn.) & 832 (K, isosyn.!)
Panicum lutetense K. Schum. [family POACEAE], in E.J. 24: 332 (1897). Type: Zaire, Lutete, Hens 194 (K, iso.!)
Acroceras oryzoides Stapf [family POACEAE], in F.T.A. 9: 622 (1920), based on P. oryzoides Sw.
Echinochloa zizanioides (Kunth) Roberty [family POACEAE], in Bull. I.F.A.N., sér. A, 17: 67 (1955)
Information
Perennial; culms slender, 30–100 cm. high, scrambling from a prostrate base, the nodes glabrous. Leaf-blades narrowly lanceolate to lanceolate, 4–15 cm. long, 6–26 mm. wide, faintly cross-veined, broadly rounded at the base, this constricted or subamplexicaul. Inflorescence 10–25 cm. long, the racemes 4–12 cm. long, mostly divergent, their rhachis glabrous, sometimes with secondary branching. Spikelets lanceolate, 4.5–6.5 mm. long, glabrous, the glumes not separated; upper glume and lower lemma distinctly nipped at the tip.
Range
DISTR. U1–4; T1, 4 western Africa from Guinée to Angola, with sporadic records elsewhere in Africa; also in India and tropical America
Altitude range
900–1600 m.
Distribution
TANZANIA Bukoba District Minziro Forest, Dec. 1958, Procter 1097! & Munene Forest Reserve, Apr. 1958, Procter & Taylor 874!TANZANIA Mpanda District on Sitalike road 11 km. from Kapapa, 17 Sept. 1970, Richards & Arasululu 25960!UGANDA Toro District Kibale Forest, 15 July 1938, A.S. Thomas 2269!UGANDA Masaka District near Lake Nabugabo, 23 June 1929, Snowden 1379!UGANDA Mengo District Sezibwa Falls, 4 Aug. 1938, A.S. Thomas 2330!
Notes
The American specimens have noticeably plumper spikelets and a greater tendency to secondary branching of the racemes, but these differences seem insufficiently distinct to justify formal recognition.When the leaf-blades are small or poorly developed it may be difficult to distinguish from A. amplectens.

Related Materials