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Brachiaria somalensis

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Name

Identification
Brachiaria somalensis C.E.Hubb. [family POACEAE ] Verified by Hubbard, C.E., Brachiaria ovalis Stapf [family POACEAE ] (stored under name); Panicum borzianum Matt. [family POACEAE ]
Related name
  • Brachiaria somalensis
  • Panicum borzianum
  • Brachiaria ovalis

Flora

Entry for BRACHIARIA ovalis 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 ovalis Stapf [family POACEAE], (1919);. type: N Somalia, Thomson s.n. (K syn.), Appleton s.n. (K syn.).
BRACHIARIA glauca Stapf [family POACEAE], (1919).
BRACHIARIA somalensis C.E. Hubb. [family POACEAE], (1941);. type: N1, near “Buramo”, “Warieta” tug, Gillett 4903 (K holo.).
Information
Annual up to 50 cm high, often densely pubescent; leaves broadly linear to narrowly lanceolate. Inflorescence of 3–15 spreading or appressed racemes on an axis 4–15 cm long; racemes 3–7 cm long, bearing single or paired spikelets loosely spaced on a triquetrous rhachis; pedicels shorter than the spikelets. Spikelets elliptic, 2.5–4.5 mm long, glabrous or papillose-pubescent, obtuse to subacute, with a stipe 0.3–0.7 mm long; lower glume 1/4–1/2 the length of the spikelet, broadly ovate; upper glume and lower lemma thinly cartilaginous, smooth and glossy; upper lemma granulose to rugulose, subacute to mucronulate.
Range
N1–3; C1, 2; S1–3.
Altitude range
150–1600 m.
Distribution
SOMALIA Farquharson 16; Glover & Gilliland 158; Bally & Melville 15709; Herlocker 404; Kuchar 17536; Eagleton 28; Moggi & Bavazzano 272; Kazmi 5193.
Distribution (external)
Sudan
Kenya
Arabia
Pakistan
Notes
Baldowley, bashi, buldorle agar, caws qaalwaweyn, wiil xaaris (Som.). A record of B. lata (Schumach.) C.E. Hubb. (= Urochloa insculpta (Steud.) Stapf) in Chiov. Fl. Somala 2: 445 (1932) and Cuf. Enum.: 1314 (1969) from southern Somalia is based on Gorini 505, which is B. ovalis.

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