Isotype of Aristida papposaTrin. & Rupr. [family POACEAE ] Verified by Not on sheet, Stipagrostis uniplumis(Licht.) De Winter [family POACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on sheet,
Related name
Aristida uniplumis
Aristida concinna
Stipagrostis uniplumis
Aristida papposa
Stipagrostis papposa
Flora
Entry for STIPAGROSTIS uniplumis (Licht.) De Winter [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
STIPAGROSTIS uniplumis(Licht.) De Winter [family POACEAE], (1963). Fig. 80.
Tufted perennial, often short-lived, up to 75 cm high; internodes glabrous. Panicle contracted although the spikelets are on long filiform branches and pedicels. Glumes unequal, narrowly lanceolate, 3-nerved, glabrous or thinly hairy, the lower 7–8 mm long, shortly bifid with the central nerve excurrent, the upper 9–10.5 mm long, narrowed above into a short awn; lemma, including the callus, 2.5–3 mm long, papillose-scabrid; column pilose, especially (and sometimes only) at the junction of the awns, 6.5–10 mm long; central awn 3–4 cm long, plumose throughout, sometimes thinly so below, with or without an excurrent naked tip; lateral awns 0.8–1.2 cm long, glabrous.
Range
N1, 2; C1, 2 tropical and southern Africa to India.
