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Agrostis simensis

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Identification
Agrostis simensis Hochst. ex Steud. [family GRAMINEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on sheet.,
Related name
  • Agrostis stolonifera
  • Agrostis schimperiana
  • Agrostis simensis
  • Polypogon schimperianus
  • Agrostis verticillata

Flora

Entry for AGROSTIS schimperana Steud. [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 1), page 1, (1970) Author: W. D. Clayton
Names
AGROSTIS schimperana Steud. [family POACEAE], Syn. Pl. Glum. 1: 170 (1854); C. E. Hubbard in F.T.A. 10: 175 (1937); Ann. list grasses Ug.: 1 (1947); A.V.P.: 47 (1957); R.K.G.; 32 (1958); I.G.U.: 13 (1960); G.T.: 18 (1965). Type:Ethiopia, Tigre, Adua, Schimper 746 & without locality, Schimper 973 (both K, isosyn.!)
AGROSTIS simensis Steud. [family POACEAE], Syn. Pl. Glum. 1: 173 (1854). Type: Ethiopia, Simen, Demerki, Schimper 562 (TUB, holo.!, K, iso.!)
AGROSTIS hirtella Steud. [family POACEAE], Syn. Pl. Glum. 1: 173 (1854). Type: Ethiopia, Simen, Schimper 1345 (TUB, holo.!, K, iso.!)
AGROSTIS alba (Steud.) Engl. var. schimperana [family POACEAE], Hochgebirgsfl. Trop. Afr.: 128 (1892)
AGROSTIS alba (Steud.) Engl. var. simensis [family POACEAE], Hochgebirgsfl. Trop. Afr.: 128 (1892)
AGROSTIS schimperana Engl. var. carinata [family POACEAE], in Abh. Preuss. Akad. Wiss. 1894: 58 (1894), nom. nud.
AGROSTIS stolonifera (Steud.) Peter var. schimperana [family POACEAE], F.D.O.-A. 1: 295 (1931), in syn.
Information
Loosely tufted stoloniferous perennial; culms 30–120 cm. high, erect or more often ascending from a geniculate or sometimes prostrate base. Leaf-blades flat, 6–15 cm. long and 3–5 mm. wide, scaberulous. Panicle irregularly linear to narrowly oblong, 6–20 cm. long, dense or somewhat loose. Spikelets 2–2.6 mm. long, falling together with the pedicel, the floret usually shed at about the same time; glumes lanceolate, 1-nerved, scaberulous to scabrid, acute; lemma broadly oblong, 1.5 mm. long, glabrous, 5-nerved, the nerves excurrent at the truncate tip, awnless or very rarely with a slender bristle up to 0.5 mm. long from the upper third of the back; palea almost as long as the lemma; rhachilla not produced.
Range
DISTR. U2, 3; K1–4, 6; T2–4, 7 Ethiopia to Zambia
Altitude range
1500–4000 m.
Distribution
KENYA Elgon crater, Maji ya Moto, 21 May 1948, Hedberg 3580!KENYA Nakuru District 32 km. on Thomsons Falls-Nakuru road, 11 Aug. 1959, Bogdan 4863!KENYA Kiambu District Kinari Forest, Magina, 9 Sept. 1961, Greenway 10400!TANGANYIKA Arusha District Ngurdoto National Park, Tululusie Falls, 29 Oct. 1965, Greenway & Kanuri 12247!TANGANYIKA Kilimanjaro, 22 Feb. 1934, Schlieben 4834!TANGANYIKA Mbeya District Elton Plateau, 24 Jan. 1961, Richards 15008!UGANDA Kigezi District Bufundi-Behungi road, 14 Oct. 1929, Snowden 1456! & Kashenji, 28 Nov. 1935, H. B. Johnston 1365!UGANDA Mbale District Bulambuli, 4 Sept. 1932, A. S. Thomas 515!
Notes
In a few specimens (A. simensis and A. hirtella) the awn-point of the lemma may attain a length of 1.5 mm. The species is closely related to the common European grass A. stolonifera L., which has smooth glumes and very unequal lemma and palea.

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