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Brachiaria subulifolia

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Name

Identification
Brachiaria subulifolia (Mez) Clayton [family POACEAE ]
Related name
  • Brachiaria subulifolia

Flora

Entry for BRACHIARIA subulifolia (Mez) W.D. Clayton [family POACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical East Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of Tropical East Africa, page 451, (1982) Author: W. D. CLAYTON and S.A. RENVOIZE
Names
BRACHIARIA subulifolia (Mez) W.D. Clayton [family POACEAE], in K.B. 34: 559 (1980). Type: South Africa, Wahlenberg (S, holo.!)
Panicum subulifolium Mez [family POACEAE], in E.J. 34: 135 (1904)
Brachiaria filifolia Stapf [family POACEAE], in F.T.A. 9: 516 (1919); Ann. list Nyasaland grasses: 31 (1958). Type: Zimbabwe, Charter District, Mundy & Col. Herb. 2107 & Angola, country of Ganguellas and Ambellas, Gossweiler 2001 (all K, syn.!)
Brachiaria bovonei [family POACEAE], [sensu G.T.: 68 (1965), non (Chiov.) Robyns]
Information
Densely tufted perennial; culms 20–100 cm. high. Leaf-blades filiform, subterete, 5–20 cm. long, up to 1 mm. in diameter. Inflorescence of (1–)2–4 racemes on an axis 1–5 cm. long; racemes 1–3 cm. long, bearing the spikelets singly on a triquetrous rhachis, its margins usually sparsely ciliate with white or yellow hairs. Spikelets elliptic, 2.8–4 mm. long; pubescent, subacute; lower glume 2/3–3/4 as long as the spikelet, 5–9-nerved, obtuse; upper glume 5–7-nerved, with a few cross-veins, not separated from the lower; lower lemma 5-nerved, the laterals near the margin, connected by cross-veins; upper lemma slightly roughened, subacute.
Range
DISTR. T7, 8 southward to South Africa
Altitude range
930–2600 m.
Distribution
TANZANIA Njombe District Dec. 1959, Gosnell 757!TANZANIA Songea District Lumecha Bridge, 3 Jan. 1956, Milne-Redhead & Taylor 8034!
Notes
The species is distinguished by its strictly filiform leaf-blades, but it grades into narrow-leaved forms of B. bovonei, and the distinction between the two is sometimes rather arbitrary.

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