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Anthistiria australis

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Identification
Themeda triandra Forssk. [family POACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Bryan Kenneth Simon, Anthistiria australis R.Br. [family POACEAE ] Verified by Bryan Kenneth Simon,
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  • Anthistiria australis
  • Themeda triandra
  • Themeda australis

Flora

Entry for THEMEDA triandra Forssk. [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
THEMEDA triandra Forssk. [family POACEAE], Fl. Aegypt.-Arab.: 178 (1775); F.T.A. 9: 416 (1919); E.A. Pasture Plants 1: 28 (1926); Fl. Agrost. Congo Belge 1: 216 (1929); Ann. list grasses Ug.: 47 (1947); Imp. Grassl. Pl. Kenya: 84 (1951); F.P.N.A. 3: 70 (1955); R.K.G.: 62 (1958); I.G.U.: 58 (1960); Clayton in F.W.T.A., ed. 2, 3: 471 (1972). Type: Yemen, Forsskål (C, holo.†)
Anthistiria imberbis Retz. [family POACEAE], Obs. Bot. 3: 11 (1783). Type: South Africa, Cape of Good Hope, Sparrmann (LD, holo.!)
Stipa paleacea Poir. [family POACEAE], Voy. Barb. 2: 101 (1789). Type: Algeria, Poiret (P, holo.)
Themeda polygama Gmel. [family POACEAE], Syst. Nat. 2: 149 (1791), nom. superfl. Based on T. triandra Forssk.
Anthistiria glauca Desf. [family POACEAE], Fl. Atlant. 2: 380, fig. 254 (1800), nom. superfl. Based on Stipa paleacea Poir.
Anthistiria australis R. Br. [family POACEAE], Prodr. Fl. Nov. Holl. 1: 200 (1810). Type: Australia, Brown 6194 (K, iso.!)
Anthistiria forskalii Kunth [family POACEAE], Rév. Gram. 1: 162 (1829), nom. superfl. Based on Themeda polygama Gmel.
Anthistiria punctata A. Rich. [family POACEAE], Tent. Fl. Abyss. 2: 448 (1851). Types: Ethiopia, Memsah, Quartin Dillon (P, syn.) & Scholoda, Schimper 73 (K, isosyn.!) & Dochli, Schimper 1555 (K, isosyn.!)
Anthistiria paleacea (Poir.) Ball [family POACEAE], in J.L.S. 16: 734 (1878)
Themeda forskalii Hack. [family POACEAE], in DC., Monogr. Phan. 6: 659 (1889), nom. superfl. Based on Anthistiria imberbis Retz.
Themeda forskalii Hack. var. burchellii [family POACEAE], in DC., Monogr. Phan. 6: 661 (1889). Types: South Africa, Griqualand West, Burchell 1844 & 2095 (both K, isosyn.!)
Themeda forskalii Hack. var. glauca [family POACEAE], in DC., Monogr. Phan. 6: 663 (1889). Type: Algeria, Bone, Desfontaines (P, holo.)
Themeda forskalii (Poir.) Th. Dur. & Schinz var. paleacea [family POACEAE], Consp. Fl. Afr. 5: 731 (1894)
Themeda imberbis (Retz.) Cooke [family POACEAE], Fl. Bombay 2: 993 (1908)
Themeda triandra (Retz.) Hack. var. imberbis [family POACEAE], in Proc. Trans. Rhod. Sci. Ass. 7: 63 (1908)
Themeda triandra (Hack.) Thell. var. glauca [family POACEAE], Fl. Adven. Montpellier: 75 (1912); F.T.A. 9: 419 (1919)
Themeda triandra (Hack.) Domin var. burchellii [family POACEAE], in Bibl. Bot. 85: 280 (1915); F.T.A. 9: 419 (1919); Piovano in Webbia 13: 283 (1957); G.T.: 111 (1965)
Themeda triandra Stapf var. hispida [family POACEAE], in F.T.A. 9: 418 (1919); Fl. Agrost. Congo Belge 1: 218 (1929); F.P.S. 3: 551 (1956); Ann. list Nyasaland grasses: 62 (1958); G.T.: 111 (1965). Type: South Africa, Clanwilliam, Drège (K, holo.!)
Themeda australis (R. Br.) Stapf [family POACEAE], in F.T.A. 9: 420 (1919)
Themeda triandra (A. Rich.) Stapf var. punctata [family POACEAE], in F.T.A. 9: 419 (1919); Fl. Agrost. Congo Belge 1: 218 (1929); Chiov. et al., Miss. Biol. Borana, Race. Bot.: 273 (1939); Ann. list Nyasaland grasses: 62 (1958)
Themeda triandra Peter var. bracteosa [family POACEAE], F.D.O.-A. 1, Anh.: 17, fig. 17/1 (1930). Type: Tanzania, Kigoma District, Uvinza, Lugugu, Peter 36734 (B, holo.†)
Themeda triandra Goossens var. trachyspathea [family POACEAE], in K.B. 1934: 195 (1934). Type: Swaziland, Hlumi, van Vuren in PRE 10082 (PRE, holo.)
Themeda triandra Chiov. var. sublaevigata [family POACEAE], in Webbia 8: 61 (1951). Types: Ethiopia, El Banno, Corradi 1153 (Fl, syn.!) and many other syntypes
Information
Tufted perennial; culms 30 cm. to 2 m. high, erect. Leaf-blades flat, up to 30 cm. long or more, and 1–8 mm. wide. False panicle up to about 30 cm. long, composed of wedge-shaped clusters of 2–8 racemes enfolded by spatheoles and spathes; spatheole 1.5–3.5 cm. long, russet coloured, glabrous to tuberculate-pilose; raceme containing 1 fertile spikelet. Homogamous pairs arising at about the same level; lower glume narrowly elliptic, 6–14 mm. long, glabrous to tuberculate-hirsute. Sessile spikelet 6–11 mm. long, including a pungent rufously bearded callus 2–4 mm. long; lower glume brown, smooth except for the appressedly pubescent tip; awn 2.5–7 cm. long, puberulous. Pedicelled spikelet 6–14 mm. long, glabrous or tuberculate-pilose; callus 2–3 mm. long. Fig. 192.
Range
DISTR. U1–4; K1, 3–7; T1–8 tropical and subtropical regions of the Old World
Altitude range
0–3200 m.
Distribution
KENYA Kitui District 24 km. WNW. of Kitui, 4 May 1961, Bogdan 5135!KENYA Masai District Ngong Hills near Kekonyokie, 10 June 1963, Verdcourt 3665!KENYA Kwale District Shimba Hills, 13 Apr. 1968, Magogo & Glover 827!TANZANIA Musoma District Seronera, 17 Mar. 1961, Greenway 9835!TANZANIA Ufipa District Mbisi, 13 Feb. 1958, Vesey-FitzGerald 1439!TANZANIA Songea District Matengo Hills, 9 Jan. 1956, Milne-Redhead & Taylor 8082!UGANDA Karamoja District Napak, 30 May 1940, A.S. Thomas 3655!UGANDA Toro District Toro Game Reserve, 3 km. NE. Sindikwa triangulation marker, 15 Nov. 1962, Buechner 8!UGANDA Kigezi District Mabungo, 22 Oct. 1929, Snowden 1494!
Notes
A polymorphic species, customarily subdivided according to the hairiness of spatheoles and spikelets. These characters seem to be poorly correlated with geographical distribution, habitat or chromosome number, and the traditional varieties are of little value.

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