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Identification
Brachiaria reptans (L.) C.A.Gardner & C.E.Hubb. [family POACEAE ]
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Entry for BRACHIARIA reptans (L.) C.A. Gardner & C.E. Hubb [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 reptans (L.) C.A. Gardner & C.E. Hubb [family POACEAE], . (1938);
Urochloa reptans (L.) Stapf [family POACEAE], (1920). [type as above]
BRACHIARIA prostrata (Lam.) Griseb. [family POACEAE], (1857).
Information
Annual up to 60 cm high, usually decumbent and rooting from the nodes; leaves narrowly lanceolate to lanceolate. Inflorescence of 5–15 racemes on an axis 1–8 cm long; racemes 1–4 cm long, bearing paired spikelets crowded on a triquetrous rhachis. Spikelets narrowly ovate to broadly elliptic, 1.5–2.2 mm long, glabrous, acute, without a stipe; lower glume up to 1/4 the length of the spikelet, hyaline, clasping, truncate (rarely a little longer and broadly ovate); upper glume adjacent to the lower; upper lemma rugose, subacute, mucronulate.
Range
C2; S2, 3 tropical Africa and tropical Asia, but an introduced weed throughout the tropics.
Altitude range
0–150 m.
Distribution
SOMALIA Kuchar 17593; Hansen 6067; Rose Innes 644.

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