ladikoro DA; Ward (NIGERIA, YORUBA), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 2
Tanner grass; Joe Tanner’s grass (named from the S Rhodesian farmer who brought it from Natal)., Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 2
Flora
Entry for BRACHIARIA mutica (Forssk.) 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]
Sprawling perennial up to 125 cm high, prostrate and rooting from the lower nodes; leaves broadly linear. Inflorescence of 5–20 racemes on an axis 7–20 cm long; racemes 2–10 cm long, bearing paired spikelets in several untidy rows on a narrowly (0.5–1 mm) winged rhachis (sometimes the spikelets on short secondary branchlets below or borne singly above). Spikelets elliptic, 2.5–3.5 mm long, glabrous, acute; lower glume 1/4–1/3 the length of the spikelet; upper glume adjacent to the lower; upper lemma rugulose, obtuse, with an obscure mucro.
Range
S2 throughout the tropics, obviously introduced in Somalia.
Altitude range
low altitude.
Distribution
SOMALIA Guidotti s.n.
Notes
Reported for Somalia by Chiovenda, Fl. Somala 2: 443 (1932), but the only collection cited, Guidotti s.n., has not been seen.
