Alloeochaete namuliensisChippind. [family POACEAE ] (stored under name);
Related name
Alloeochaete namuliensis
Flora
Entry for Alloeochaete namuliensis Chippind. [family GRAMINEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Zambesiaca
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
FZ, Vol 10, Part 2, (1999) Author: T. Cope
Names
Alloeochaete namuliensisChippind. [family GRAMINEAE], in J. S. African Bot. 11: 101 (1945). Type: Mozambique, Gurué, near Namuli Peaks, 9.iv.1943, Torre 5146 (K, holotype).
Information
Densely caespitose perennial up to 80 cm tall; base of culm bulbous with the outer leaf sheaths ultimately breaking up into fibres, exposing the inner ones which are densely tomentose with dirty white hairs; leaf lamina flat or becoming involute, 7–45 cm × 3–6(8) mm, pungent, glabrous or loosely pilose above.Panicle 13–14.5 cm long, broadly ovate, the branches spreading or ascending, scaberulous, the terminal pedicels up to 8 mm long.Spikelets 6–7(12) mm long, oblong, straw-coloured, often tinged with purple; glumes ovate-lanceolate, 3-nerved, the inferior 3–5 mm long, the superior 3.5–6 mm long; lowermost floret male with rudimentary ovary, the lemma c. 5 mm long, 2-lobed with an awn in the sinus, the awn either short and straight or long and reflexed and rarely twisted below (these two sorts mixed in the same panicle); fertile lemmas 4–6 mm long including the aristate lobes, ovate-lanceolate; central awn 4.5–9 mm long.
Habitat
In submontane grassland, in thin soil covering granite rocks
Range
Known only from the type
Altitude range
1500 m.
1500
1500
Distribution
Mozambique Z Gurué, near Namuli Peaks, 1500 m, 9.iv.1943, Torre 5146 (K).