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Andropogon kiwuensis

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Name

Identification
Andropogon kiwuensis Pilger [family POACEAE ] Hyparrhenia familiaris (Steud.) Stapf [family POACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Stapf,O., Cymbopogon filipendulus Hochst. [family POACEAE ]
Related name
  • Hyparrhenia familiaris
  • Andropogon kiwuensis
  • Cymbopogon filipendulus

Flora

Entry for HYPARRHENIA familiaris (Steud.) Stapf [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
HYPARRHENIA familiaris (Steud.) Stapf [family POACEAE], in F.T.A. 9: 325 (1919); Fl. Agrost. Congo Belge 1: 174 (1929); Ann. list grasses Ug.: 23 (1947); Troupin, Fl. Garamba 1: 45 (1956); I.G.U.: 35 (1960); G.T.: 107 (1965); Clayton in F.W.T.A., ed. 2, 3: 492 (1972). Type: “Guinea”, Jardin (P, holo.!)
Andropogon familiaris Steud. [family POACEAE], Syn. Pl. Glum. 1: 385 (1854)
Andropogon kiwuensis Pilg. [family POACEAE], in Fries, Wiss. Ergeb. Schwed. Rhod.-Kongo-Exped. 1: 196 (1916). Type: Rwanda, Ruzizi valley, Fries 1544 (UPS, holo.!)
Cymbopogon familiaris (Steud.) De Wild. [family POACEAE], in B.J.B.B. 6: 12 (1919)
Information
Caespitose perennial; culms 50–150 cm. high. Leaf-blades up to about 30 cm. long, 5 mm. wide. False panicle up to 60 cm. long, leafy, lax; spatheoles linear, 6–10 cm. long, reddish brown, the peduncles as long or a little shorter and bearing a beard of spreading yellow hairs towards the tip; racemes 1–2 cm. long, 3–5-awned per pair, ± glabrous, deflexed; raceme-bases unequal, the upper 4–5 mm. long, glabrous. Homogamous pairs 1 at the base of the lower raceme, 2 at the base of the upper. Sessile spikelet 7.5–8.5 mm. long, purplish, glabrous or occasionally white pubescent; callus 2.5–3 mm. long, pungent; awn 6–9 cm. long, hirtellous with fulvous hairs up to 1 mm. long. Pedicelled spikelet with an awn 2–10 mm. long.
Range
DISTR. U4; T1 western Africa from Guinée to Angola
Altitude range
1100–1600 m.
Distribution
TANZANIA Bukoba District Kahororo [Karoro], Jan. 1932, Haarer 2453! & Nyakato, 1 June 1934, Gillman 54! & Ngono bridge, 10 June 1934, Gillman 61a !UGANDA Mengo District Entebbe, 3 May 1940, Fiennes 3374! & Kigungu [Kiggungu], 6 Apr. 1960, Harker 828! & Kome I., near Bugombe, 27 Oct. 1968, Lye 45!
Distribution (external)
Vietnam
Notes
Readily recognized by the peduncle-hairs which are typically bright yellow, but may be pale (they are white in most other species). The awned pedicelled spikelet is a further aid to identification.

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