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Aristida tunetana

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Identification
Aristida tunetana Coss. [family GRAMINEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Cooson M.M.E., 1883 Aristida tunetana Coss. [family GRAMINEAE ] Verified by Not on sheet,
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  • Aristida tunetana
  • Aristida congesta

Flora

Entry for ARISTIDA congesta Roem. & Schult. [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 1), page 1, (1970) Author: W. D. Clayton
Names
ARISTIDA congesta Roem. & Schult. [family POACEAE], Syst. Veg. 2: 401 (1817). Type: South Africa, Cape Province, Lichtenstein (B, holo. †)
ARISTIDA longicauda Hack. [family POACEAE], in Bol. Soc. Brot. 6: 143 (1888). Type: Mozambique, without precise locality, Carvalho 35 (W, holo., K, iso.!)
ARISTIDA alopecuroïdes Hack. [family POACEAE], in Verh. Bot. Ver. Brand. 30: 114 (1888). Type: South West Africa, Amboland, Schinz 15847 (W, holo., K, iso.!)
ARISTIDA tunetana Coss. [family POACEAE], in Batt. & Trab., Fl. Alger. 2: 157 (1895). Type: Tunisia, Cosson (P, holo., K, iso.!)
ARISTIDA congesta Chiov. var. pilifera [family POACEAE], in Ann. Ist. Bot. Roma 8: 333 (1908). Type: Eritrea, Oculai Cusai, Pappi 1709 (FI, holo.!)
ARISTIDA elytrophoroïdes Chiov. [family POACEAE], in Agric. Col. Fir. 18: 350 (1924); R.K.G.: 33 (1958); G.T.: 23 (1965). Type: as for A. congesta var. pilifera
Information
Densely tufted perennial; culms 10–75 cm. high, glabrous. Leaf-blades linear, 2–20 cm. long, folded or convolute; sheaths compressed, glabrous, the lower strongly keeled, the auricles bearded or not. Panicle dense, bushy, spike-like, 3–20 cm. long, occasionally with 1 or 2 subspicate peduncled branches at the base. Spikelets tinged with grey or purple; glumes unequal, lanceolate, scaberulous on the keel and sometimes also on the flanks, the lower 4–5 mm. long, the upper 6.5–10 mm. long, both with a short awn-point up to 2 mm. long; lemma terete, 4–5 mm. long, scabrid upwards; callus linear, ± 1 mm. long, narrowly truncate at the tip; column 2–4 mm. long, articulated just below the branching point of the awns; awns 12–30 mm. long.
Range
DISTR. K3, 4, 6, 7; T2, 5 eastern Africa from the Mediterranean to the Cape
Altitude range
1500–2100 m.
Distribution
KENYA N. Nyeri District 38 km. NE. of Nanyuki, 14 Dec. 1949, Bogdan 2744!KENYA Fort Hall/Kiambu District Thika, 15 Jan. 1947, Bogdan 34!KENYA Masai District 16 km. on Narok-Nairobi road at top of Seyabei Gorge, 15 July 1962, Glover & Samwell [ Paulo ] 3154!TANGANYIKA Masai District Tarangire, 26 Jan. 1959, Vesey-FitzGerald 2191!TANGANYIKA Kondoa District Farkwa, 19 Feb. 1966, Newman 183!

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