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Aristida adscensionis

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Name

Identification
Aristida adscensionis L. [family POACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on sheet, Aristida leptochaeta Hack. [family POACEAE ] Verified by Not on sheet,
Related name
  • Aristida bromoides
  • Aristida humilis
  • Aristida thonningii
  • Aristida moandensis
  • Aristida paniculata
  • Aristida vulgaris
  • Aristida leptochaeta
  • Aristida mauritiana
  • Aristida modatica
  • Aristida maritima
  • Aristida schaffneri
  • Aristida multiramea
  • Aristida nigrescens
  • Aristida curvata
  • Aristida adscensionis
  • Aristida submucronata
Common name
  • mσtodo = bitter grass (FRI) (GHANA, MOORE), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 2
  • allomoze (JMD) tezenat (JMD) (MALI, TAMACHEK), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 2
  • iru ofe (Ward) (NIGERIA, YORUBA (Ilorin)), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 2
  • lhaïyet lehmar (AN) (MAURITANIA, ARABIC (Hassaniya)), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 2
  • bàzàyyánáó (auctt.) datsi a general term (JMD; ZOG) gatsaura (JMD) katsaura (JMD; ZOG) lale shamuwa (Golding) tsíntsíyár dutsee = brush of the rocks (auctt.) wútsíyàr kurege baki = black squirrel tail (Kennedy) (NIGERIA, HAUSA), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 2
  • ọkà olongo corn of ‘olongo’ [a kind of bird] (Dodd; JMD) (NIGERIA, YORUBA), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 2
  • Volta) selбo (pl. celбi) (K&T) (UPPER VOLTA, FULA-FULFULDE (Upper), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 2
  • dúŋu bεε (CG) (MALI, DOGON), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 2
  • hétièb (JB) mbol tièb (JB) (SENEGAL, SERER), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 2
  • selbi (J&D) wicco tenemeje (Saunders; JMD) (NIGERIA, FULA-FULFULDE (Nigeria)), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 2

Flora

Entry for ARISTIDA adscensionis L. [family POACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Somalia
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Somalia, Vol 4, (1995) Author: by T. A. Cope [updated by M. Thulin 2008]
Names
ARISTIDA adscensionis L. [family POACEAE], (1753).
ARISTIDA caerulescens Desf. [family POACEAE], (1798).
ARISTIDA adscensionis (Poir.) Henrard var. festucoides [family POACEAE], in Meded. Rijks-Herb. 54: 177 (1926).
ARISTIDA adscensionis (Trin. & Rupr.) T. Durand & Schinz var. aethiopica [family POACEAE], Consp. Fl. Afric. 5: 799 (1895);
ARISTIDA aethiopica (Trin. & Rupr.) Chiov. [family POACEAE], (1907). [type as above]
Information
Annual or short-lived perennial up to 75 cm high (usually much less). Panicle usually contracted about the primary branches, these either spreading or appressed to the main axis (but the panicle never spike-like). Glumes unequal, linear-lanceolate, the lower 4–8.5 mm long, acute, the upper 7–11.5 mm long, obtuse or emarginate to apiculate; lemma, including the callus, (5–)11.5–17 mm long, laterally compressed, scabrid on the keel and sometimes also on the flanks, passing into the awns without either column or articulation; awns terete, the central (0.7–)1.5–2.5 cm long, the laterals similar or a little shorter.
Range
N1–3; C1, 2; S1–3 throughout the tropics.
Altitude range
0–1650 m.
Distribution
SOMALIA Hansen & Heemstra 6146; Kazmi & al. 45; Bally & Melville 15652; Elmi 514; Beckett 270; Gillett & Hemming 24312A; Alstrup & Michelsen 60; Hemming & Deshmukh 215.
Notes
Bille, birreh, ebateetee, harfo, madweed, tinleh (Som.). An extremely variable species ranging from annual to short-lived perennial; perennial plants were at one time separated as A. caerulescens, but it is now apparent that the distinction is induced by the environment and is not therefore of any taxonomic value.

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