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Brachiaria villosa

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Name

Identification
Brachiaria villosa (Lam.) A.Camus [family POACEAE ] (stored under name); Brachiaria villosa Bor [family POACEAE ]
Related name
  • Panicum viviparum
  • Panicum nilagiricum
  • Brachiaria villosa
  • Panicum serrulatum
  • Panicum not on sheet
  • Panicum distichophylla
  • Brachiaria distichophylla
  • Panicum distichophyllum
  • Urochloa fusiformis
  • Urochloa villosa
Common name
  • a-kàsy бa-yán = that which waits on the farmer (FG&G) (GUINEA, BASARI), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 2
  • cítòw-cè (pl. -cíò) = foot of the bird (D&C) (NIGER, SONGHAI), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 2
  • kasha (JMD) (NIGERIA, KANURI), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 2
  • òá (NWT) (SIERRA LEONE, LOKO), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 2
  • gagaji (JMD) garaji (auctt.) gariji (JMD; ZOG) к̉asha (ZOG) tufa (Kennedy) (NIGERIA, HAUSA), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 2
  • mbowi (NWT) (SIERRA LEONE, MENDE), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 2
  • funfuri (NWT) (SIERRA LEONE, SUSU), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 2
  • sirilinyaxe (NWT) (SIERRA LEONE, KORANKO), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 2
  • kuling kuling-ô (Pirie) (THE GAMBIA, MANDING-MANDINKA), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 2

Flora

Entry for BRACHIARIA villosa (Lam.) A. Camus [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 villosa (Lam.) A. Camus [family POACEAE], in Lecomte, Fl. Gén. Indo-Chine 7: 433 (1922). Type: India, Sonnerat (P, holo.)
Panicum villosum Lam. [family POACEAE], Tab. Encycl. Méth. Bot. 1: 173 (1791)
Panicum distichophyllum Trin. [family POACEAE], Gram. Pan.: 147 (1826) & Sp. Gram. Ic. 2, fig. 182 (1828). Type: Ghana, Accra, Sabine (LE, holo.)
Panicum serrulatum Schumach. [family POACEAE], Beskr. Guin. Pl.: 62 (1827). Type: Ghana, Thonning (C, holo.!)
Panicum viviparum Schumach. [family POACEAE], Beskr. Guin. Pl.: 62 (1827). Type: Ghana, Thonning (C, holo.!)
Panicum despreauxii Steud. [family POACEAE], Syn. Pl. Glum. 1: 58 (1854). Type: Senegambia, Leprieur (whereabouts uncertain, not P)
Panicum pauperulum Steud. [family POACEAE], Syn. Pl. Glum. 1: 58 (1854). Type: Senegambia, Leprieur (whereabouts uncertain, not P)
Brachiaria distichophylla (Trin.) Stapf [family POACEAE], in F.T. A. 9: 557 (1919); Fl. Agrost. Congo Belge 2: 113 (1934); Ann. list grasses Ug.: 6 (1947); Clayton in F.W.T.A., ed. 2, 3: 444 (1972)
Urochloa villosa (Lam.) Nguyen [family POACEAE], in Nov. Syst. Pl. Vase. Acad. Sci. U.R.S.S. 1966: 13 (1966)
Information
Loosely tufted or creeping annual; culms 10–50 cm. high. Leaf-blades narrowly lanceolate, 1–7 cm. long, 2–6 mm. wide, the margins cartilaginous. Inflorescence of 5–10 racemes on an axis 3–7 cm. long; racemes 1–4 cm. long, secund, bearing single or paired spikelets (sometimes short side branchlets at base of longer racemes) on a ± pubescent triquetrous rhachis. Spikelets elliptic, 2–2.7 mm. long, glabrous or pubescent, sometimes with a short transverse fringe of hairs near the tip, acute to subacute, without a stipe; lower glume 1/3–1/2 the length of the spikelet, clasping; upper glume separated from the lower by a slight internode; upper lemma granulose to rugulose, acute to mucronulate.
Range
DISTR. U4 western Africa from Mauritania to Zaire; Sudan; tropical Asia
Altitude range
1200 m.
Distribution
UGANDA Masaka District Sese Is., 1926, Maitland 892A!
Notes
B. villosa intergrades with B. comata, differing mainly in the simple secund racemes. Its distribution, Old World tropics omitting East Africa, is unusual but recalls that of Phragmites karka (Retz.) Steud.

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