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Alloeochaete oreogena

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Identification
Alloeochaete oreogena Launert [family POACEAE ]
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Entry for Alloeochaete oreogena Launert [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 oreogena Launert [family GRAMINEAE], in Garcia de Orta, Sér. Bot. 1, 1–2: 91 (1973). TAB. 5. Type: Malawi, Mt. Mulanje (Mlanje), Likuleza (Lukulezi) Valley, 23.vi.1958, Chapman 669 (BM, holotype; K; SRGH).
Information
Tussocky perennial up to 200 cm tall; culms erect from a ± oblique rhizome up to 1.2 cm in diameter; basal leaf sheaths lanose-tomentose with brownish hairs, strongly striate towards the base and ultimately breaking up into stiffly curling fibres from the bottom; leaf lamina flat or rarely convolute, up to 120 × 2 cm, narrowing to a hooded tip, glabrous or loosely pilose.Panicle 20–35(42) cm long, oblong or lanceolate, dense, the branches ascending to suberect, the terminal pedicels up to 26 mm long.Spikelets (15)20–26 mm long, linear to oblong-lanceolate, purple or green tinged with purple; glumes ovate-lanceolate to elliptic, 5-nerved, pilose in the upper half, the inferior 7–10 mm long, the superior 9–14 mm long; lowermost floret male, the lemma (11)13–15 mm long including the awn; fertile lemmas 14–16 mm long including the aristate lobes, ovate to broadly elliptic; central awn 13–15(18) mm long.
Habitat
In montane grassland, growing by rocky streamsides and on steep grassy hillsides amongst rocks
Range
Endemic on Mt. Mulanje
Altitude range
c. 2100 m.
2100
2100
Distribution
Malawi S Mt. Mulanje (Mlanje), base of west peak, c. 2100 m, 8.vi.1962, E.A. Robinson 5313 (K; SRGH).
Notes
The tussocks of this species are perched upon an extraordinary 'trunk' up to 150 cm tall, formed from a compact mass of culms, dead fibrous leaf sheaths and woolly hairs.

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