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Andropogon piptatherus

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Name

Identification
Euclasta condylotricha (Steud.) Stapf [family POACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Data not digitized, Andropogon piptatherus Hack. [family POACEAE ] Verified by Data not digitized,
Related name
  • Andropogon piptatherus
  • Andropogon hirsutus
  • Euclasta condylotricha

Flora

Entry for EUCLASTA condylotricha (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
EUCLASTA condylotricha (Steud.) Stapf [family POACEAE], in F.T.A. 9: 181 (1917); Fl. Agrost. Congo Belge 1: 107 (1929); F.P.N.A. 3: 52 (1955); F.P.S. 3: 460 (1956); Ann. list Nyasaland grasses: 41 (1958); I.G.U.: 33 (1960); G.T.: 100 (1965); Clayton in F.W.T.A., ed. 2, 3: 471 (1972). Type: Ethiopia, Dscheladscheranne, Schimper 2011 (P, holo.!)
Andropogon condylotrichus Steud. [family POACEAE], Syn. Pl. Glum. 1: 377 (1854)
Andropogon piptatherus Hack. var. erectus [family POACEAE], in DC, Monogr. Phan. 6: 580 (1889). Types: Sudan, Gallabat, Schweinfurth 1025 (K, isosyn.!) & Sennar, Roziani & Nigeria, Lokoja, Barter (K, isosyn.!)
Euclasta glumacea Franch. [family POACEAE], in Bull. Soc. Hist. Nat. Autun 8: 336 (1895). Types: Congo (Brazzaville), Comba, Thollon 1040 & Lope, Thollon 787 (both P, syn.!)
Euclasta graminea Dur. [family POACEAE], Syll. Fl. Cong.: 649 (1909), nom. superfl. Based on E. glumacea Franch.
Dichanthium condylotrichum (Steud.) Roberty [family POACEAE], in Boissiera 9: 163 (1960)
Information
Erect or rambling annual; culms weak, 15–200 cm. high. Leaf-blades 5–25 cm. long, 2–10 mm. wide. Inflorescence delicate, nodding, composed of 2–15 subdigitate or corymbose racemes, bearded in the axils; racemes 2–5 cm. long, pedunculate. Homogamous spikelets resembling the pedicelled. Sessile spikelet narrowly elliptic, 3–4 mm. long; lower glume chartaceous, with raised nerves, ± hairy, obtuse; awn 2–4 cm. long, pubescent. Pedicelled spikelet lanceolate, 4–9 mm long, many-nerved, ± hairy, acute.
Range
DISTR. T4–8; Z tropical Africa and America
Altitude range
0–1400 m.
Distribution
TANZANIA Ufipa District Ilemba Gap, 22 Mar. 1959, McCallum Webster T.188!TANZANIA Kilosa District Ilonga, banks of Matarawe R., 25 May 1968, Renvoize & Abdallah 2377! & Vuma Hill, 14 June 1973, Greenway & Kanuri 15139!TANZANIA Zanzibar I., Chwaka, 21 June 1960, Faulkner 2608!
Distribution (external)
India

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