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Identification
Andropogon patris Robyns [family POACEAE ] Verified by Not on sheet, Andropogon chinensis (Nees) Merr. [family POACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on sheet,
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  • Andropogon patris
  • Andropogon chinensis

Flora

Entry for ANDROPOGON chinensis (Nees) Merr. [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 chinensis (Nees) Merr. [family POACEAE], in Philip. Journ. Sci., Bot. 12: 101 (1917). Type: China, Macau, Vachell 52 (CGE, holo.!)
Homoeatherum chinense Nees [family POACEAE], in Lindley, Nat. Syst., ed. 2: 448 (1836)
Andropogon ascinodis C.B. Cl. [family POACEAE], in J.L.S. 25: 87 (Feb. 1889); Clayton in F.W.T.A., ed. 2, 3: 486 (1972). Type: India, Naga Hills, Jakpho, Clarke 41890 (K, holo.!)
Andropogon schinzii Hack. [family POACEAE], in DC, Monogr. Phan. 6: 458 (Apr. 1889); F.T.A. 9: 245 (1919); Fl. Agrost. Congo Belge 1: 138 (1929); Ann. list grasses Ug.: 3 (1947); R.K.G.: 58 (1958); Ann. list Nyasaland grasses: 28 (1958); I.G.U.: 16 (1960); G.T.: 104 (1965). Type: Namibia, Oshando, Schinz (K, iso.!)
Andropogon pseudoschinzii Stapf [family POACEAE], in F.T.A. 9: 249 (1919); Ann. list Nyasaland grasses: 28 (1958). Type: Malawi, Shire highlands, Buchanan 67 (K, holo.!)
Andropogon patris Robyns [family POACEAE], Fl. Agrost. Congo Belge 1: 137 (1929) & B.J.B.B. 8: 227 (1930). Type: Zaire, Wombali, Vanderyst 4335 (K, iso.!)
Andropogon lindiensis Pilg. [family POACEAE], in N.B.G.B. 13: 407 (1936); G.T.: 104 (1965). Types: Tanzania, Newala District, Makonde Plateau, Schlieben 6446 (B, syn.) & Rondo [Muera], Schlieben 6290 (K, isosyn.!)
Andropogon lindiensis Pilg. var. hirsutissimus [family POACEAE], in N.B.G.B. 13: 408 (1936). Type: Tanzania, Newala District, Makonde Plateau, Schlieben 6447 (BR, iso., K, photo.!)
Andropogon spanianthus Pilg. [family POACEAE], in N.B.G.B. 14: 96 (1938); G.T.: 104 (1965). Type: Tanzania, Njombe District, Msima, Schlieben 1015 (K, iso.!)
Andropogon sylvaticus C.E. Hubbard [family POACEAE], in K.B. 4: 371 (1949); Ann. list Nyasaland grasses: 29 (1958). Type: Malawi, Zomba, Brass 16098 (K, holo.!)
Information
Tufted perennial; culms 60–200 cm. high. Leaf-blades 10–40 cm. long, 1–8 mm. wide, glabrous or pubescent, ± glaucous, often with sheath-auricles up to 4 mm. long. Inflorescence of paired (rarely more) racemes exserted from linear spatheoles and gathered into a loose, sometimes scanty, false panicle; racemes 3–7(–10) cm. long, pilose to villous; internodes and pedicels cuneate, ciliate on both margins with hairs 1–3 mm. long. Sessile spikelet 5–8 mm. long, including a short callus; lower glume linear, deeply depressed between the dorsal keels, glabrous; upper glume with an awn (1–)4–12 mm. long; upper lemma bidentate, with an awn 2–3.5 cm. long, occasionally less. Pedicelled spikelet lanceolate to narrowly elliptic, 4–7 mm. long, pallid to purplish, glabrous to pilose, mostly 2-awned, the longer (2–)4–10 mm. long, the other much shorter or sometimes suppressed. Fig. 180/3, p. 769.
Range
DISTR. U1; K1–7; T2–5, 7, 8 tropical and South Africa; Arabia; India to China
Altitude range
0–1800 m.
Distribution
KENYA Northern Frontier Province Moyale, 19 Oct. 1952, Gillett 14063!KENYA W. Suk District 64 km. N. of Kapenguria, Marich [Marech] Pass, 12 Nov. 1953, Bogdan 3829!KENYA Teita District Mudanda Rock, 5 Jan. 1967, Greenway & Kanuri 12979!TANZANIA Lushoto District Mkomazi, Pasua Hill, 27 Apr. 1967, Mwamba 41!TANZANIA Mbeya District Magangwe, 7 May 1970, Greenway, Savidge & Kanuri 14481!TANZANIA Iringa, 19 Aug. 1971, Pedersen 661!UGANDA Karamoja District Moroto, June 1954, J. Wilson 30!
Notes
A variable species, closely imitating A. pseudapricus in West Africa, but with a tendency to sparse panicles containing longer racemes with larger spikelets towards the south. There seems to be no clear disjunction between these extremes. A. angustatus (Presl) Hack. from tropical America has small sessile spikelets (4–6 mm.), 1-awned pedicelled spikelets and short (0.5–1 mm.) internode-hairs. Although these distinguishing characters are rather slight, they constitute a tolerably uniform facies which is not found in Africa. It seems reasonable to continue to maintain separate species for the Old World and the New.

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