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Agrostis virginica

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Identification
Agrostis virginica L. [family POACEAE ] (stored under name); Agrostis virginica L. [family POACEAE ] Verified by James L. Reveal, Sporobolus virginicus (L.) Kunth [family POACEAE ] Verified by James L. Reveal,
Related name
  • Sporobolus indicus
  • Sporobolus arenarius
  • Sporobolus virginicus
  • Phalaris disticha
  • Sporobolus not on sheet
  • Sporobolus spicatus
  • Agrostis virginica
  • Agrostis pungens
  • Agrostis indica
  • Vilfa vaginiflora
  • Agrostis spicata

Flora

Entry for SPOROBOLUS pungens Kunth [family POACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Capensis
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Capensis, Vol 7, page 310, (1900) Author: (By O. STAPF.)
Names
SPOROBOLUS pungens Kunth [family POACEAE], Rév. Gram. i. 68;—Kunth, Enum. i. 210; Coss. & Durieu, Expl. Scient. Algér. ii. 62.
SPOROBOLUS littoralis Kunth [family POACEAE], Rév. Gram. i. 68; Enum. i. 213; Durand & Schinz, Consp. Fl. Afr. v. 821.
SPOROBOLUS virginicus Kunth [family POACEAE], Rév. Gram. i. 67; Enum. i. 210; Nees, Fl. Afr. Austr. 153; Durand & Schinz, l.c. 824.
SPOROBOLUS Matrella Nees [family POACEAE], l.c. 152; Durand & Schinz, l.c. 822.
SPOROBOLUS arenarius Duval-Jouve [family POACEAE], in Bull. Soc. Bot. France, xvi. 294; Durand & Schinz, l.c. 818.
Agrostis arenaria Gouan [family POACEAE], Ill. & Obs. Bot. 3.
Agrostis pungens Schreb. [family POACEAE], Beschreib. Graes. ii. 46, t. 27, fig. 3;Cav. Icon. & Descr. ii. t. 111; Reichenb. Ic. Fl. Germ. i. t. xxxvi. fig. 1437.
Agrostis barbata Pers. [family POACEAE], Syn. i. 75.
Agrostis littoralis Lam. [family POACEAE], Illustr. i. 161.
Agrostis virginica Linn. [family POACEAE], Sp. Pl. 63.
Vilfa pungens Beauv. [family POACEAE], Agrost. 16; Trin. Spec. Gram. Icon. t. 47; Agrostid. 49; Steud. Syn. Pl. Glum. i. 157.
Vilfa virginica Beauv. [family POACEAE], l.c.; Trin. Spec. Gram. Icon. t. 48; Agrostid. 48; Steud. Syn. Pl. Glum. i. 157; Doell in Mart. Fl. Bras. ii. iii. 30, t. viii. fig. 1.
Vilfa barbata Beauv. [family POACEAE], l.c.
Vilfa littoralis Beauv. [family POACEAE], l.c.; Steud. l.c. 162.
Vilfa murina Sieb. ex Steud. [family POACEAE], l.c. 157.
Podosæmum pungens Link [family ], Hort. Berol. i. 84.
Podosæmum virginicum Link. [family ], l.c. 85.
Calotheca sabulosa Steud. [family POACEAE], in Flora, 1829, 488.
Phalaris disticha Forsk. [family POACEAE], Fl. Ægypt.-Arab. 17 (?).
Zoysia pungens Nees [family POACEAE], in Linnæa, vii. 299.
Crypsis maritima Munro ex MacOwan [family POACEAE], in Cape Monthly Mag. new series, iii. (1871), Suppl. 7.
Information
perennial; rhizome often long creeping, stoloniferous; stolons emitting fascicled or solitary ascending culms, these 2–12 in. long, glabrous, very many-noded, sheathed nearly all along, internodes alternately very short and long, hence the leaves appear opposite; culm-sheaths rather tight, slightly compressed, glabrous or sometimes ciliate along the margins and bearded at the mouth, smooth; ligule a ciliolate rim; blades subulate-involute, often pungent, rarely flat towards the base, from 1/3–4 in. long, rigid, firm, closely and strongly nerved, glabrous or scantily long-hairy above, margins scaberulous; panicle spike-like, cylindric, compact, rarely somewhat loosened, 1/2–3 in. long; branches short, branched from the base, scaberulous; pedicels very short; spikelets light to dark olive-green, 1–1 1/2 lin. long; glumes lanceolate, acute or acuminate, keels acute, scaberulous above, the lower equalling 1/2– 4/5 of the upper, the latter as long as the valve or slightly longer and like it 1-nerved; pale slightly shorter; stamens 3; anthers 3/4–1 lin.; grain ellipsoid, 2/5 lin. long, light brown; pericarp thin. null
Range
A very variable litoral plant of most warm countries.
Distribution
COAST REGION Cape Div.; Green Point, Ecklon! in saline soil near Doorn Hoogte and between Tyger Berg and Simons Berg, 100–200 ft., Drège! Muizenberg Vley, Wolley Dod, 925! Tulbagh Div.; Tulbagh Waterfall, Ecklon. Uitenhage Div.; Zeyher! mouth of the Zwartkops River and mountains on the Van Stadens River, Ecklon. Port Elizabeth Div.; Port Elizabeth, Drège! sand-hills along the coast, E.S.C.A. Herb., 250! Bathurst Div.; near Port Alfred, Burchell, 4032! mouth of the Kasuga and Kowie Rivers, MacOwan, 710!EASTERN REGION Natal; at the mouth of the Umzimkulu River, Drège! sand-dunes around Durban Bay, Krauss, 67!SOUTH AFRICA without precise locality, Boivin! Mund & Maire! Zeyher!WESTERN REGION Little Namaqualand; in sandy saline plains at the mouth of the Orange River, Drège!
Notes
The specimens from Bathurst Division and from Natal are rather different in habit from the western, approaching the form common in the Mediterranean region which originally was understood under S. pungens.

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