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Andropogon bentii

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Identification
Andropogon bentii Stapf [family POACEAE ] Andropogon cyrtocladus Stapf [family POACEAE ] Verified by Stapf, O., Andropogon kelleri Hack. [family POACEAE ] (stored under name);
Related name
  • Andropogon bentii
  • Andropogon cyrtocladus
  • Andropogon kelleri

Flora

Entry for ANDROPOGON kelleri Hack. [family POACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Somalia
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Somalia, Vol 4, (1995) Author: by T. A. Cope [updated by M. Thulin 2008]
Names
ANDROPOGON kelleri Hack. [family POACEAE], (1900);. type: N1, “Tuyo”, Keller 156 (K isosyn.). Fig. 153.
Schizachyrium kelleri (Hack.) Stapf [family POACEAE], (1919);. type: N1, “Tuyo”, Keller 156 (K isosyn.). Fig. 153.
ANDROPOGON cyrtocladus Stapf [family POACEAE], (1907);. types: N1, Drake-Brockman 43, 44 (K syn.).
ANDROPOGON bentii [family POACEAE], auct. non Stapf (1907).
Information
Suffrutescent rhizomatous perennial forming bushes up to 2(–3.6) m high and 1.8 m across; stems woody below, profusely branched above; leaves 2–10 cm x 2–4 mm, flat. Racemes solitary or rarely paired, 2–3 cm long, terminal on short leafy branches and long-exserted on filiform peduncles; internodes and pedicels filiform, villous. Sessile spikelet 5–6.5 mm long including the 0.5 mm long callus; lower glume linear-lanceolate, thinly cartilaginous, shallowly depressed between the thickened lateral keels, nerveless between the keels, acute; upper glume mucronate; upper lemma bifid in the upper 1/4, with an awn 10–25 mm long. Pedicelled spikelet 6–7 mm long; lower glume narrowly lanceolate with a mucro up to 1 mm long (the upper glume similarly mucronate).
Range
N1–3; C1, 2; S1
Altitude range
180–1520 m.
Distribution
SOMALIA McKinnon 80; Hemming 1358; Beckett 1334; Bally & Melville 15362; Kuchar 17018; Wieland 1143.
Distribution (external)
Ethiopia
Notes
Dulun, durr, toon (Som.). Similar to the Socotran endemic A. bentii Stapf, but a much larger plant with longer, narrower spikelets and longer racemes.

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