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Beckera petitiana

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Identification
Beckera petitiana A.Rich. [family POACEAE ] Snowdenia petitiana (A.Rich.) C.E.Hubbard [family POACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Hubbard,C.E., Snowdenia scabra (Pilger) Pilger [family POACEAE ]
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  • Snowdenia scabra
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Flora

Entry for SNOWDENIA petitiana (A. Rich.) C.E. Hubbard [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, page 451, (1982) Author: W. D. CLAYTON and S.A. RENVOIZE
Names
SNOWDENIA petitiana (A. Rich.) C.E. Hubbard [family POACEAE], in Hook., Ic. Pl. 7, t. 3647 (1967). Type: Ethiopia, Beless, Quarter Dillon & Petit (P, holo.)
Beckera petitiana A. Rich. [family POACEAE], Tent. Fl. Abyss. 2: 358 (1851)
Beckera scabra Pilg. [family POACEAE], in N.B.G.B. 11: 653 (1932). Type: Tanzania, Njombe District, Mapala, Schlieben 999 (K, iso.!)
Snowdenia scabra (Pilg.) Pilg. [family POACEAE], in N.B.G.B. 14: 103 (1938); Ann. list grasses Ug.: 43 (1947); R.K.G.: 51 (1958); I.G.U.: 55 (1960); G.T.: 80 (1965)
Information
Annual; culms weak, 30–90 cm. high, decumbent and rooting at the nodes below, slender and rambling above. Leaf-blades linear-lanceolate, 3–13 cm. long, 4–15 mm. wide; sheaths retrorsely scabrid on the nerves. Racemes 3–7 cm. long. Spikelets lanceolate, 3.2–4 mm. long; lower lemma acuminate to a slender awn 1–5 mm. long; upper lemma acute, mucronate. Fig. 155.
Range
DISTR. U3; K3; T2, 7, 8
Altitude range
1650–2900 m.
Distribution
KENYA Nakuru District Nyahururu, Thomsons Falls School Forest, 30 Aug. 1950, Barney 1138! & Ol Joro Orok, 4 Sept. 1951, Bogdan 3216! & Molo, Kameko Farm, 8 May 1959, McCallum Webster K.93!TANZANIA Mbulu District Nou Forest, 17 June 1967, Vesey-FitzGerald 5298!TANZANIA Mbeya District Ihoho Forest, July 1962, Procter 2116!TANZANIA Iringa District Luiga Tea Estate, 10 May 1968, Renvoize & Abdallah 2073!UGANDA Mbale District Buluganya, 8 Dec. 1938, A.S. Thomas 2573!
Distribution (external)
Ethiopia

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