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Flora
Entry for BRACHIARIA brizantha (Hochst. ex A. Rich.) Stapf [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
BRACHIARIA brizantha(Hochst. ex A. Rich.) Stapf [family POACEAE], (1919).
Information
Tufted perennial up to 200 cm high, erect or sometimes geniculately ascending; leaves linear to broadly linear. Inflorescence of (1–)2–16 racemes on an axis 3–20 cm long; racemes 4–20 cm long, bearing the spikelets singly in a single row on a rhachis crescentic in section and c. 1 mm wide. Spikelets plumply elliptic, 4–6 mm long, glabrous or sometimes sparsely pubescent, obtuse to subacute, with a slight stipe at the base; lower glume c. 1/3 the length of the spikelet, clasping, acute or obtuse; upper glume separated from the lower by a very short internode; upper lemma granulose, acute.
Range
?N1 tropical and southern Africa, introduced elsewhere in the tropics.
Notes
Reported from northern Somalia in Cuf. Enum.: 1312 (1969), but no collection has been seen and the record needs confirmation.
