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Brachiaria deflexa

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Name

Identification
Brachiaria deflexa (Schumach.) C.E.Hubb. ex Robyns [family POACEAE ]
Related name
  • Brachiaria deflexa
Common name
  • yagué yagué ba (A.Chev.; FB) (MALI, MANDING-BAMBARA), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 2
  • paguiri (A.Chev.) (MALI, SONGHAI), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 2
  • fonio à grosses graines (francophone W Africa, Busson)., Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 2
  • jajawo (Fox) (THE GAMBIA, MANDING-MANDINKA), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 2
  • kolo rassé (A.Chev.; FB) (UPPER VOLTA, MOBA), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 2
  • jégé (RdoF) (GUINEA-BISSAU, CRIOULO), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 2

Flora

Entry for BRACHIARIA deflexa (Schumach.) C.E. Hubb. ex Robyns [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 deflexa (Schumach.) C.E. Hubb. ex Robyns [family POACEAE], (1932).
BRACHIARIA regularis (Nees) Stapf [family POACEAE], (1919).
BRACHIARIA clavuliseta Chiov. [family POACEAE], (1926);. type: S3, Kismayu, Gorini 19 (FT holo., K iso.).
Information
Annual up to 70 cm high, often weak and ascending; leaves broadly linear. Inflorescence of 7–15 racemes on an axis 6–15 cm long; racemes 2–10 cm long, often compound, bearing mostly paired spikelets spreading from the triquetrous rhachis, the inflorescence imitating a panicle; pedicels, or some of them, longer than the spikelets, up to 15 mm long. Spikelets broadly elliptic, 2.5–3.5 mm long, glabrous to pubescent, acute, with a stipe up to 0.5 mm long; lower glume 1/3–1/2 the length of the spikelet; upper glume ± adjacent to the lower; upper lemma rugose, subacute to acute.
Range
N1; C2; S1–3 tropical and southern Africa, through Arabia to India.
Altitude range
40–400 m.
Distribution
SOMALIA Hansen & Heemstra 6177; Thulin & Abdi Dahir 6401; O’Brien 63; Alstrup & Michelsen 63; Kazmi 5214.
Notes
Buldorle agar (Som.).

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