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Anthoxanthum indicum

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Identification
Anthoxanthum indicum L. [family POACEAE ] (stored under name); Perotis latifolia Aiton [family POACEAE ] Verified by Henry Trimen, Perotis indica (L.) Kuntze [family POACEAE ]
Related name
  • Anthoxanthum indicum
  • Perotis indica
  • Saccharum spicatum
  • Perotis latifolia

Flora

Entry for PEROTIS indica (L.) Kuntze [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, Part (Part 2), page 177, (1974) Author: W. D. CLAYTON, S. M. PHILLIPS AND S. A. RENVOIZE
Names
PEROTIS indica (L.) Kuntze [family POACEAE], Rev. Gen.P1.2: 787 (1891); Clayton in F.W.T.A., ed. 2, 3: 411 (1972). Type: Ceylon, Hermann (BM, holo.!)
Anthoxanthum indicum L. [family POACEAE], Sp. Pl.: 28 (1753)
Saccharum spicatum L. [family POACEAE], Sp. Pl.: 54 (1753). Type: India, illustration in Rhede, Hort. Malabar. 12, fig. 62 (1703)
Perotis latifolia Ait. [family POACEAE], Hort. Kew. 1: 85 (1789), worn, superfl. Based on Saccharum spicatum L.
Perotis spicata (L.) Th. & H. Dur. [family POACEAE], Syll. Fl. Congo: 628 (1909)
Information
Loosely tufted annual; culms 10–40 cm. high, ascending. Leaf-blades lanceolate to narrowly ovate, 1–3 cm. long, 2–7 mm. wide. Spike 2–15 cm. long, exserted from the uppermost sheath, the spikelets densely to rather loosely packed and ascending or spreading horizontally. Spikelets 1.5–2.5 mm. long, with a short stipitiform callus 0.2–0.5 mm. long; glumes uniformly appressed scaberulous to minutely hispidulous, the midnerve inconspicuous, bearing a flexuous awn 5–15 mm. long. Caryopsis terete.
Range
DISTR. T6 India and SE. Asia; probably introduced to Africa, where it is recorded in W. Africa, the Central African Republic and Zaire
Altitude range
300 m.
Distribution
TANZANIA Ulanga District Sagamaganga, 30 Apr. 1965, B. D. Nicholson 60 !
Notes
The common Asiatic species. The spikelets are usually densely packed, but are sometimes deceptively loose. the narrow midnerve, which is not noticeably more scabrid than the body of the glume, and the terete grain.

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