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Aristida congesta

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Identification
Aristida congesta Roem. & Schult. [family POACEAE ]
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Entry for ARISTIDA congesta Roem. et Schult. [family POACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Capensis
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Capensis, Vol 7, page 310, (1900) Author: (By O. STAPF.)
Names
ARISTIDA congesta Roem. et Schult. [family POACEAE], Syst. ii. 401;—Kunth, Rév. Gram. ii. t. 172; Enum. i. 195; Suppl. 152; Trin. & Rupr. Stip. 153; Steud. Syn. Pl. Glum. i. 142; Durand & Schinz, Consp. Fl. Afr. v. 802; Hack. in Bull. Herb. Boiss. iv. App. iii. 18.
ARISTIDA coarctata Lichtenst. ex Roem. & Schult. [family POACEAE], l.c. 401.
Chætaria congesta Nees [family ], Fl. Afr. Austr. 189.
Information
perennial, tufted, light green or glaucous, glabrous; culms slender, rather wiry, erect or geniculately ascending, compressed below, 1/4–2 ft. long, simple or branched from some of the lower nodes, 3–4-noded; sheaths tight, smooth; blades usually very narrow, linear, acute, 1–6 in. by 1 lin., rarely larger, usually folded or convolute, rigid, curved, rarely flat, smooth below, scabrid to hispidulous above; panicle spike-like, often interrupted, with 1–2 shortly peduncled, more or less spreading lateral pseudo-spikes, 2–6 in. long; pedicels very short; spikelets densely-crowded, 3 1/2–4 lin., rarely up to 5 lin. long; glumes keeled, keels smooth or almost so, the lower lanceolate, gradually passing into a long mucro, 3 lin. long, the upper linear, emarginate, long mucronate, 3 1/2–5 lin. long; valve linear, produced into a short twisted beak, usually slightly shorter than the upper glume, minutely scaberulous above; callus 1/2 lin. long; awns jointed with the valves, but not disarticulating, diverging, fine, 5–7 lin. long; pale not quite 1/2 lin. long, nerveless or almost so; lodicules 1/2– 5/8 lin. long, 5–6-nerved; anthers 3/8 lin. long; grain up to 1 3/4 lin. long, deeply grooved. null
Distribution
CENTRAL REGION Somerset Div.; Bowker, 134! 148! Graaff Reinet Div.; near Graaff Reinet, 2900 ft., Bolus, 679! Colesberg Div.; near Colesberg, in crevices of rocks, 4500 ft., Drège! Shaw, 16! Albert Div.; without precise locality, 4500 ft., Drège.COAST REGION Uitenhage Div.; Steenboks Flats, Ecklon & Zeyher! Komgha Div.; Kei River, 500 ft., Drège. Queenstown Div.; Shiloh, Baur, 55! Wodehouse Div.; Indwe, Baur, 71!EASTERN REGION Natal, Buchanan, 124!KALAHARI REGION Prieska Div.; near Keikams Poort, Burchell, 1612! Griqualand West, Hay Div.; Witte Water, Lichtenstein, between Griquatown and Witte Water, Burchell, 1983! between Kloof Village and Witte Water, Burchell, 2084/1! Herbert Div.; St. Clair, near Douglas, Orpen, 254! Kimberley; near Dutoits Pan, Tuck! Orange Free State; Great Vet River, Burke, 210! Bloemfontein, Rehmann, 3739! Basutoland; Leribe, Buchanan, 149! Bechuanaland; Marloth, 696! Transvaal; near Lydenburg, Atherstone! Bosch Veld, by the Elands River, Rehmann, 4999! Pretoria Div., at Kameel Poort, Nelson, 64*!SOUTH AFRICA without precise locality, Zeyher, 1818!WESTERN REGION Great Namaqualand; Gubub, Schinz, 657! Warmbad, Wandres, 19!

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