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Airochloa convoluta

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Identification
Koeleria convoluta Hochst. ex Steud. [family POACEAE ] Koeleria capensis (Steud.) Nees [family POACEAE ] (stored under name); Airochloa convoluta Hochst. [family POACEAE ] Koeleria cristata Pers. [family POACEAE ]
Related name
  • Airochloa convoluta
  • Koeleria convoluta
  • Koeleria capensis
  • Airochloa uniflora
  • Koeleria cristata

Flora

Entry for KŒLERIA cristata C. E. Hubbard var. convoluta [family ]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical Africa
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Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of Tropical Africa, Vol 10, page 1, (1937) Author: (By C. E. HUBBARD.)
Names
KŒLERIA cristata C. E. Hubbard var. convoluta [family ]
KŒLERIA cristata A. Rich. [family ], Tent. Fl. Abyss. ii. 431 (in part); Hook. f. in Journ. Linn. Soc., Bot. vii. 230; Engl. Hochgebirgsfl. Trop. Afr. 134 (in part); Durand & Schinz, Consp. Fl. Afr. v. 892 (in part); K. Schum. in Engl. Pflanzenw. Ost-Afr. C. 115 (in part); Peter in Fedde, Repert. Beih. xl. I. 342 (1936); not of Pers.
KŒLERIA cristata Peter var. densiflora [family ], l.c.
KŒLERIA convoluta Hochst. ex Steud. [family ], Syn. Pl. Glum. i. 293 (1854); Domin in Biblioth. Bot. xiv. heft 65, 109 (1907); Chiov. in Ann. Istit. Bot. Roma, viii. 374; Pilger in Notizbl. Bot. Gart. Berlin, ix. 1126; Ballard in Kew Bulletin, 1930, 121; Hutch. in Hutch. & Dalz. Fl. W. Trop. Afr. ii. 527.
KŒLERIA convoluta Domin var. typica [family ], in Biblioth. Bot. xiv. heft 65, 110 (1907).
KŒLERIA convoluta Domin var. uniflora [family ], l.c. t. vi., figs. 8–9.
KŒLERIA convoluta Domin var. densiflora [family ], l.c. 111.
KŒLERIA convoluta Domin var. deusticola [family ], l.c. 111.
KŒLERIA uniflora Schweinf. & Aschers. [family ], Beitr. Fl. Æthiop. 300 (1867).
KŒLERIA ciliata Domin var. convoluta [family ], in Mag. Bot. Lap. iii. 342 (1904).
Airochloa uniflora Hochst. [family POACEAE], in Flora, xxxviii. 330 (1855).
Airochloa convoluta Hochst. ex Domin [family POACEAE], in Biblioth. Bot. xiv. heft 65, 109 (1907), in syn.
Information
A densely cæspitose perennial, 2/3–2 1/2 ft. high. Culms erect, slender, simple, 1–2-noded towards the base, densely and softly tomentose especially towards the panicle, or almost glabrous. Leaf-sheaths longer than the lower internodes, finely striate, glabrous, or more often loosely to densely pubescent, the lowermost persistent, usually elongated, comparatively broad, rather loose; ligule truncate, up to 1 lin. long, membranous; blade very narrowly linear to filiform, with a hard obtuse or subacute tip, up to 1 ft. long, convolute or folded, up to 1 lin. (rarely more) wide when flattened, stiff to rigid, erect, glabrous, or loosely to densely pubescent. Panicle linear- to lanceolate-oblong or lanceolate in outline, dense and continuous, or more or less lobed and sometimes interrupted below, 1 1/2–5 in. long, 1/6–1 1/4 in. wide; rhachis tomentose; lowest branches up to 1 in. long; pedicels very short. Spikelets at first elliptic, at length gaping, 2 1/4–3 1/4 lin. long, purple, or variegated with brown and purple, or greenish. Glumes with thin hyaline margins, ciliolate or scabrid on the keel especially above the middle, minutely pubescent on the sides towards the apex, or glabrous; lower narrowly lanceolate or linear-lanceolate, acuminate, 1 3/4–3 lin. long, 1-nerved; upper elliptic, acuminate, 2 1/4–3 lin. long, 3- (rarely 1-) nerved. Florets 1–3. Valves elliptic or elliptic-oblong, acuminate, 2–3 lin. long, 3-nerved, ciliolate or scaberulous on the keel, asperulous or minutely pubescent on the sides. Valvules as long as or almost as long as the valves, with scaberulous or ciliolate keels. Anthers 1–1 1/2 lin. long. Grain oblong, 1 1/2 lin. long.
Distribution
Tanganyika Mozamb. Dist. Mt. Kilimanjaro, 7000 ft., Johnston, 163! 10,600 ft., Schlieben, 4985! Marangu, 9000 ft., Volkens, 921! Kifinika Volcano, 10,000 ft., Volkens, 1855! Bismarck Hill, in moorland, 10,000 ft., Greenway, 3849! Peters Hut to Bismarck Hill, 11,000 ft., on stony and rocky mountain slopes, locally common, range 10,000–11,500 ft., Greenway, 3797! near Peters Hut, 11,500–11,900 ft., Cotton & Hitchcock, 63! Hitchcock, 24638! Mawenzi, in scree, in shelter of rocks, 15,500–16,000 ft., Burtt, 2333! Mt. Meru, in upper Erica zone, 12,000 ft., Uhlig, 641! Mbulu District; Hanang (or Guruwe) Mtn., dominant grass in flower in open scrubland, 8000–11,000 ft., Burtt, 2273!Eritrea Nile Land Ocule Cusai; Soyra Mtns., along the Arigot Stream, 8660–9000 ft., Pappi, 1289; Mt. Mamahot, towards the Arigot Stream, 9330–10,000 ft., Pappi, 1186, 1241.Abyssinia Nile Land Samen; Mt. Silke, 1840, Schimper, 671! 689! Mt. Dedschen, 13,900 ft., 1850, Schimper; Begemeder; Guna Mtn., 12,000 ft., Schimper !Uganda Nile Land Mt. Elgon, 10,000–12,000 ft., Hancock & Soundy, 5 (bis)! Liebenberg, 1696! above Madangi, 12,000 ft., Johnston, 869! Top Camp, 12,500 ft., Tothill, 2434! 2457! 12,900 ft., Tothill, 2415! 13,500 ft., in crater, moorland, one of the dominant grasses, Dummer, 3341! between Madangi Camp and summit, Staples, 203!Kenya Nile Land Mt. Elgon, 12,000–14,000 ft., Battiscombe, 677! Taylor, 3517! 3533! 3777! Mt. Aberdare, Kinangop, 11,500–13,000 ft., open grassland, Taylor, 1462! near Kinangop, moist places in grassland, 10,000 ft., Fries, 2683! Mt. Aberdare, Nyeri and Laikipia, open position in or near forest, above 6,000 ft., Grant, 1247(17)! Mt. Kenya, Forest Station, 7600 ft., Fries, 823! 10,000 ft., Gedge, 3684! 12,000 ft., infrequent in moors, Lyne Watt, 1122! 12,300 ft., Edwards, 2942!Nigeria Upper Guinea Cameroons Mtn., 8000–10,000 ft., Mann, 2074! 12,000 ft., Mann, 1357! towards no. 3 hut, 12,000 ft., Maitland, 1259! 1297!

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