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Agrostis alopecuroides

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Identification
Agrostis alopecuroides Lam. [family POACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on sheet, Alopecurus paniceus (L.) L. [family POACEAE ] Verified by Not on sheet,
Related name
  • Agrostis exarata
  • Agrostis alopecuroides
  • Alopecurus paniceus
  • Agrostis longiligula

Flora

Entry for Polypogon monspeliensis L. Desf. [family GRAMINEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Zambesiaca
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
FZ, Vol 10, Part 1, (1971) Author: E. Launert
Names
Polypogon monspeliensis L. Desf. [family GRAMINEAE], Fl. Atlant. 1: 67 (1798). — Hack. in Engl. & Prantl, Nat. Pflanzenfam. 2, 2: 50 (1881). — Rendle in Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw. 2, 1: 206 (1899). — Stapf. in Harv. & Sond., F.C. 7: 543 (1899). — C. E. Hubb. in F.T.A. 10: 160 (1937). — Chippindall in Meredith, Grasses & Pastures of S. Afr.: 102, 103 (1955). — F. W. Andr., Fl. Pl. Sudan, 3: 521 (1956). — Bogdan, Rev. List Kenya Grass.: 31 (1958). — Bor, Grass. B.C.I. & P.: 403 (1960). — Napper, Grass. Tangan.: 19 (1965). — C. E. Hubb. in F.T.E.A., Gramineae: 100 (1970). — Launert in Merxm., Prodr. Fl. S. W. Afr. 160: 154 (1970). TAB. 26. Type from France.
Alopecurus monspeliensis L. [family GRAMINEAE], Sp. Pl. 1: 61 (1753). Type as above.
Phleum crinitum Schreb. [family GRAMINEAE], Beschr. Graes. 1: 151 (1769) nom. illegit.
Phalaris cristata Forsk. [family GRAMINEAE], Fl. Aegypt.-Arab.: LX, 17 (1775). Type from Egypt.
Agrostis alopecuroides Lam. [family GRAMINEAE], Tabl. Encycl. Méth., Bot. 1: 160 (1791). Type from France or southern Europe.
Santia plumosa Savi [family GRAMINEAE], in Mem. Soc. Ital. Sci. 8: 479 (1799). Type from Italy.
Phleum monspeliense L. Koel. [family GRAMINEAE], Descr. Gram.: 57 (1802). Type as for Polypogon monspeliensis.
Polypogon monspeliensis var. capensis Steud. [family GRAMINEAE], in Flora, 12: 466 (1829). Type from S. Africa.
Polypogon polysetus Steud. [family GRAMINEAE], loc. cit. Type from Europe.
Polypogon flavescens J. S. Presl ex C. B. Presl [family GRAMINEAE], Reliq. Haenk. 1: 234 (1830). Type from Peru.
Santia monspeliensis L. Parl. [family GRAMINEAE], Fl. Palerm. 1: 73 (1845). — Type as for Polypogon monspeliensis.
Polypogon monspeliensis var. vulgaris Coss. [family GRAMINEAE], in Coss. & Dur., Expl. Sci. Algér. Glumac.: 69 (1855). Type from southern ? Europe.
Information
A loosely caespitose rather variable annual. Culms 5-75(90) cm. tall, 2-6-noded, erect or ascending from a decumbent base, slender to somewhat stout, simple, glabrous, smooth or sometimes scaberulous towards the panicle. Leaf-sheaths longer (the lower) to shorter (the upper) than the internodes, usually loose, glabrous, smooth or scaberulous towards the mouth. Ligule 3-15 mm. long, oblong, often lacerate, dorsally asperulous. Leaf-laminae 2.5-15(20) x 0.2-0.9 cm., lanceolate-linear to linear, tapering to an acute point, usually expanded, flaccid to somewhat rigid, scaberulous along the nerves on both surfaces or smooth on the lower surface. Panicle 1.5-16 cm. long, very dense, spike-like, bristly, cylindrical or often lobed, compact, rarely interrupted, pale-green or yellowish, rarely brownish; branches obliquely ascending to almost appressed to the rhachis, divided from the base. Lateral pedicels rather short, disarticulating about the middle. Spikelets 2-3 mm. long (excluding the awn). Glumes 1-2 mm. long (excluding the awn), subequal, narrowly oblong, dorsally scabrous, with the obtuse apex minutely 2-lobed; awn 4-7.5 mm. long, scaberulous. Lemma c. 1/2 the length of the glumes (excluding the awn), broadly elliptic with the apex minutely dentate; awn (if present) 1.5-2.5 mm. long. Anthers c. 0.5 mm. long, oblong. Caryopsis c. 1 mm. long.
Habitat
In waste land, rubbish tips or in cultivated land, also in salt marshes; usually in damp soil
Range
Europe, the Mediterranean and in the temperate parts of Asia and Africa, introduced into most temperate and warm regions of the Globe
Distribution
Botswana SE Palapye, 760 m., 6 .ix. 1954, Story 4615 (K).

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