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Aeluropus lagopoides

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Name

Identification
Aeluropus lagopoides (L.) Trin. ex Thwaites [family GRAMINEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by F.N. Hepper (Kew), 1987
Related name
  • Dactylis repens
  • Aeluropus repens
  • Poa massauensis
  • Aeluropus mucronatus
  • Aeluropus brevifolius
  • Distichlis sudanensis
  • Calotheca niliaca
  • Cynosurus lima
  • Dactylis indet.
  • Aeluropus lagopoides
  • Cenchrus montanus
  • Dactylis lagopoides

Flora

Entry for AELUROPUS lagopoides (L.) Trin. ex Thwaites [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
AELUROPUS lagopoides (L.) Trin. ex Thwaites [family POACEAE], (1874). Fig. 84.
AELUROPUS repens (Desf.) Parl. [family POACEAE], (1848).
AELUROPUS massauensis (Fresen.) Mattei [family POACEAE], (1910).
Information
Subshrubby or sward-forming, with long creeping stolons, up to 15(–30) cm high; leaves narrow, spreading, subdistichous, soft and tapering or, more usually, distichous, rigid and pungent, hairy or glabrous. Inflorescence a globose, elliptic or oblong head, sometimes reduced to a solitary raceme of closely crowded spikelets, (0.5–)1–2(–2.5) x (0.5–)1–1.5 cm. Spikelets elliptic-oblong, 4- to 8-flowered, 2.5–4.5 mm long; glumes elliptic, unequal, villous, the lower 1.4–1.7 mm long, the upper 1.8–2.2 mm long; lemmas broadly elliptic, apiculate, 2.4–2.8 mm long, villous on the margins.
Range
N1, 2 Mediterranean region to India.
Altitude range
sea-level.
Distribution
SOMALIA Gillett 4741; Hemming 2057.
Notes
Garo (Som.).

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