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Andropogon barbatus

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Identification
Andropogon barbatus L. [family POACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on sheet,
Related name
  • Andropogon barbatus
  • Chloris polydactyla
  • Andropogon polydactylos
  • Chloris barbata
  • Chloris elata
  • Chloris dandyana

Flora

Entry for CHLORIS barbata Sw. [family POACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical East Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of Tropical East Africa, Part (Part 2), page 177, (1974) Author: W. D. CLAYTON, S. M. PHILLIPS AND S. A. RENVOIZE
Names
CHLORIS barbata Sw. [family POACEAE], ,Fl. Ind. Occ. 1: 200 (1797); F.P.S. 3: 420 (1956); Ann. list Nyasaland grasses: 32 (1958); R.K.G.: 25 (1958); G.T.: 41 (1965); Clayton in F.W.T.A., ed. 2, 3: 400 (1972). Type: India (LINN, holo.!)
Andropogon barbatus L. [family POACEAE], Mant. 2: 302 (1771), non L. (1759), nom. illegit. Type: as for species Chloris inflata Link, Enum. Pl. 1: 105 (1821).
Chloris inflata Link [family POACEAE], Enum. Pl. 1: 105 (1821). Type: U.S.A., California, cultivated in Berlin, Chamisso (B, holo.)
Information
Perennial; culms up to 1 m. high, loosely tufted, stoloniferous. Leaf-blades flat, rarely involute, up to 40 cm. long, 2–3 mm. wide, tapering towards the apex. Inflorescence of 5–15(–22) digitate, loose to spreading, purplish, feathery spikes 4–8 cm. long. Spikelets 3-flowered, 3-awned; lower glume 1.2–1.5 mm. long; upper glume 1.7–2.5 mm. long; lowest lemma narrowly ovate-elliptic in side view, 2–2.5 mm. long, pallid, sparsely to densely ciliate on the margins and keel, the awn 4.5–7 mm. long; callus rounded, ciliate; 2nd lemma a glabrous clavate scale 1–1.5 mm. long, projecting from the side of the lowest lemma, different in shape, its awn 2.5–7 mm. long; 3rd lemma also reduced to a glabrous clavate scale 1 mm. long, its awn 3–5 mm. long.
Range
DISTR. K7; T3, 6; Z; P widespread throughout the tropics
Altitude range
sea-level to 400 m.
Distribution
KENYA Teita District E. of Lugard Falls, 26 Dec. 1966, Greenway & Kanuri 12874 !KENYA Mombasa District Mombasa, June 1934, Napier 6379! & Likoni, 19 July 1960, Leach & Bayliss 10294 !TANZANIA Pangani District Sakura, 8 Aug. 1955, Tanner 2027 !TANZANIA Uzaramo District Dar es Salaam, Apr. 1928, Marshall 44! & May 1928, Marshall 68!TANZANIA Zanzibar I., Mnazi Mmoja, 8 June 1964, Faulkner 3389 !TANZANIA Pemba I., Chake Chake, Vaughan 252 !

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