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Alopecurus monspeliensis

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Identification
Alopecurus monspeliensis L. [family POACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on sheet, Polypogon monspeliensis (L.) Desf. [family POACEAE ] Verified by Not on sheet,
Related name
  • Polypogon monspeliense
  • Polypogon monspeliensis
  • Alopecurus monspeliensis

Flora

Entry for POLYPOGON monspeliensis Desf. [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
POLYPOGON monspeliensis Desf. [family POACEAE], Fl. Atlant. i. 67;—Beauv. Agrost. 17, t. vi. fig. 8; Kunth, Enum. i. 232; Suppl. 181, t. xiii. fig. 7; Nees, Fl. Afr. Austr. 143; Reichenb. Ic. Fl. Germ. i. t. 31, fig. 1416; A. Rich. Tent. Fl. Abyss. ii. 402; Steud. Syn. Pl. Glum. i. 184; Doell in Mart. Fl. Bras. ii. iii. 44, t. 126.
POLYPOGON monspeliensis Steud. var. capensis [family POACEAE], in Flora, 1829, 466.
POLYPOGON polysetus Steud. [family POACEAE], l.c. 467.
Phleum crinitum Schreb. [family POACEAE], Beschr. Graes. i. 151, t. 20, fig. 3; Sibth. & Sm. Fl. Græc. i. 46, t. 62.
Alopecurus monspeliensis Linn. [family POACEAE], Sp. Pl. 61; Thunb. Prodr. 19.
Alopecurus paniceus Linn. [family POACEAE], l.c. ed. ii. 90.
Agrostis panicea Ait. [family POACEAE], Hort. Kew, i. 94; Engl. Bot. t. 1704.
Information
annual, tufted; culms erect or geniculately ascending, 1/2–2 ft. long, simple, glabrous, smooth, 3–4-noded, nodes exserted or enclosed; sheaths loose, often tumid, glabrous, smooth; ligules scarious, oblong, denticulate, ciliolate, 1 1/2–3 lin. long; blades linear, tapering to a callous point, 2–6 in. by 1–3 lin., flaccid to subrigid, flat, scabrid; panicle spike-like, cylindric, sometimes lobed or interrupted below, 1–5 in. long, light green or straw-coloured; branches with numerous branchlets from the base, scaberulous; lateral pedicels extremely short, disarticulating near the base; spikelets 1 lin. long; glumes subequal, linear or oblanceolate-oblong, shortly 2-lobed or emarginate, scaberulous, ciliate or ciliolate; awn 2–3 lin. long; valve 1/2 lin. long, minutely 2–4-mucronulate, nerves very obscure, awn as long as the valve or shorter or 0; pale 2-toothed or 2-mucronulate, almost as long as the valve; anthers 1/5– 1/4 lin. long; grain oblong, 1/2 lin. long, subterete or terete, obscurely grooved. null
Range
Very common throughout the Mediterranean region to India, introduced into most warm countries.
Distribution
CENTRAL REGION Aberdeen Div.; Camdeboo Mountains, Drège. Graaff Reinet Div.; banks of the Sunday River, near Graaff Reinet, Bolus, 187!COAST REGION Vanrhynsdorp Div.; Ebenezer, below 100 ft., Drège! Cape Div.; Simons Bay, MacGillivray, 401! Milne, 241! Table Mountain, Doorn Hoogte, Hosacks Platz, and Van Kamps Bay, Ecklon, near Constantia, Ecklon & Zeyher! shore near Muizenberg, Wolley Dod, 2085! Tulbagh Div.; Tulbagh Waterfall, Ecklon. Swellendam Div.; Buffeljagts River, Gill! Mossel Bay Div.; between Duyker River and Gauritz River, Burchell, 6385! Uitenhage Div.; Zwartkops River, Ecklon. Port Elizabeth Div.; Port Elizabeth, Drège, E.S.C.A. Herb. 147! Albany Div.; Brand Kraal near Grahamstown, MacOwan, 1281! King Williamstown Div.; Amatola Mountains, Buchanan, 13! Queenstown Div.; Zwart Kei River, Baur, 988!EASTERN REGION Natal, Cooper, 3520!KALAHARI REGION Griqualand West; Griqua Town, Burchell, 1910! Orange Free State, Cooper, 3350! 3351!SOUTH AFRICA without precise locality, Thunberg! Miller!WESTERN REGION Little Namaqualand; banks of the Orange River, near Verleptpram, Drège!
Notes
All the Cape specimens which I have seen, with the exception of MacGillivray's from Simon's Bay, have the glumes more distinctly 2-lobed than is the case in the Mediterranean P. monspeliensis, but at the same time less than in P. maritimus. They are also more ciliate, as Nees has already remarked. The general habit, however, is on the whole that of typical P. monspeliensis.

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