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Andropogon prionodes

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Identification
Bathratherum serrulatum Hochst. [family POACEAE ] Arthraxon prionodes (Steud.) Dandy [family POACEAE ] (stored under name); Andropogon prionodes Steud. [family POACEAE ]
Related name
  • Bathratherum serrulatum
  • Arthraxon prionodes
  • Andropogon prionodes

Flora

Entry for ARTHRAXON prionodes (Steud.) Dandy [family ]
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
ARTHRAXON prionodes (Steud.) Dandy [family ], in F.P.S. 3: 399 (1956); G.T.: 99 (1965). Types: Ethiopia, Adua [Adoua], Schimper 1117 (K, isosyn.!) & Quartin Dillon (P, syn.)
Andropogon serrulatus A. Rich. [family POACEAE], Tent. Fl. Abyss. 2: 458 (1851), non Link (1827). Type: as for species
Andropogon prionodes Steud. [family POACEAE], Syn. Pl. Glum. 1: 383 (1854). Based on A. serrulatus A. Rich.
Arthraxon serrulatus Hochst. [family ], in Flora 39: 188 (1856); F.T.A. 9: 163 (1917); R.K.G.: 62 (1958); I.G.U.: 17 (1960). Based on Andropogon serrulatus A. Rich.
Arthraxon lanceolatus (Hochst.) Th. Dur. & Schinz var. serrulatus [family ], Consp. Fl. Afr. 5: 704 (1894)
Information
Perennial, arising from a knotty base covered in silky scales. Culms up to 60 cm. long, hard, wiry, trailing. Leaf-blades narrowly lanceolate to ovate, 2–7 cm. long, 4–20 mm. wide, tuberculate-ciliate on the margins, setaceously acuminate. Inflorescence of 2–8 racemes, each 4–7 cm. long; internodes pilose. Sessile spikelet linear to narrowly lanceolate, 5–6.5 mm. long; lower glume rounded on the back, spinously muricate on the keels and sometimes also on the indistinct dorsal nerves; awn 8–15 mm. long; 3 anthers, 2.5–3.5 mm. long. Pedicelled spikelet narrowly lanceolate, 4–5 mm. long.
Range
DISTR. U1; K1, 4; T2 Sudan through Yemen and India to China and Thailand Hab. Rocky slopes; 1000–2000 m.
Distribution
KENYA Northern Frontier Province, Marsabit, 19 May 1971, van Swinderen 82! & Moyale, 8 Aug. 1952, Gillett 13704!KENYA Fort Hall District Thika, 18 Jan. 1948, Bogdan 1493!TANZANIA Mt. Kilimanjaro, 1929, Haarer 1778!UGANDA Karamoja District Moroto, May 1954, J. Wilson 29!
Notes
Closely related to A. lanceolatus, a species confined to southern India, which has the lower glume of the sessile spikelet almost flat on the back and strongly nerved.

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