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Andropogon distachyos

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Identification
Andropogon distachyos L. [family POACEAE ]
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Flora

Entry for ANDROPOGON distachyos L. [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, page 451, (1982) Author: W. D. CLAYTON and S.A. RENVOIZE
Names
ANDROPOGON distachyos L. [family POACEAE], Sp. Pl.: 1046 (1753); F.T.A. 9: 218 (1919); Fl. Agrost. Congo Belge 1: 130 (1929); F.P.N.A. 3: 55 (1955); F.P.S. 3: 388 (1956); R.K.G.: 58 (1958); I.G.U.: 15 (1960); G.T.: 103 (1965); Clayton in F.W.T.A., ed. 2, 3: 485 (1972). Type: Switzerland, Basel, Burser (UPS, holo.)
ANDROPOGON distachyos Chiov. var. hirtus [family POACEAE], in Nuov. Giorn. Bot. Ital., n.s. 19: 416 (1912). Type: Ethiopia, Eritrea, Hamesen, Fiori 1220 (FI, holo.!)
Information
Tufted perennial, the basal sheaths silky pubescent below; culms 25–100 cm. high. Leaf-blades 7–20 cm. long, 1–5 mm. wide. Racemes paired, terminal, 4–14 cm. long; internodes and pedicels stoutly linear to slightly clavate, ciliate, ± cupuliform at the tip. Sessile spikelet 8–16 mm. long, including a large oblong callus 1–2 mm. long; lower glume lanceolate, slightly convex to slightly concave on the back, herbaceous to thinly coriaceous, evenly 7–11-nerved between the lateral keels, glabrous to pubescent, winged on the keels for 1/2–2/3 of their length, the wings membranous and confluent to a caudate asymmetrically bidentate tip; upper glume with an awn 4–10 mm. long; upper lemma bilobed to the middle, with an awn 1.5–3 cm. long. Pedicelled spikelet lanceolate, 6–11 mm. long, herbaceous, bidentate, with a slender bristle 3–9 mm. long. Fig. 180/1, p. 769.
Range
DISTR. U1; K3, 4, 6; T2, 3, 7 shores of the Mediterranean and Arabia
Altitude range
1700–3000 m.
Distribution
KENYA Nakuru District 22 Sept. 1929, Hitchcock 25108! & Menengai Crater, 18 July 1952, Bogdan 3506! & 9 Aug. 1967, Mwangangi 184!TANZANIA Masai District Ngorongoro Crater Wall, 2 Feb. 1962, Newbould 5977!TANZANIA Mbulu District Ngorongoro Crater road, 11 June 1965, Greenway & Kanuri 11842!TANZANIA Arusha District Ol Doinyo Sambu, Feb. 1926, Haarer 51!UGANDA Karamoja District Mt. Moroto, Sept. 1958, J. Wilson 510! & Napak, 28 May 1940, A.S. Thomas 3635! & June 1950, Eggeling 5898!
Distribution (external)
Sudan
Ethiopia
Cameroun
Zimbabwe
South Africa
Thailand

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