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Brachychloa schiemanniana

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Identification
Brachychloa schiemanniana (Schweick.) Phillips [family POACEAE ]
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Entry for Brachychloa schiemanniana Schweick. S.M. Phillips [family GRAMINEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Zambesiaca
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
FZ, Vol 10, Part 2, (1999) Author: T. Cope
Names
Brachychloa schiemanniana Schweick. S.M. Phillips [family GRAMINEAE], in Kew Bull. 37: 159 (1982). —Gibbs Russell et al., Grasses Southern Africa [Mem. Bot. Surv. S. Africa No. 58]: 70, fig. 32 (1990). TAB. 22. Type: Mozambique, between Maputo (Lourenço Marques) and Costa do Sol, 2.iv.1948, Schweickerdt 1900 (PRE, holotype; K).
Heterocarpha schiemanniana Schweick. [family GRAMINEAE], in Züchter 31: 193 (1961).
Information
Stoloniferous perennial; culms up to 30 cm tall; leaf laminas 4–8 cm × 5–8 mm, narrowly lanceolate, flat, abruptly pointed at the apex.Inflorescence 4–12 cm long, comprising 10–15 short, erect or ascending racemes; racemes 1.5–4 cm long, persistent.Spikelets 4.5–5.5 mm long, oblong; glumes 2–3 mm long, narrowly lanceolate in profile, keeled, the inferior (1)3-nerved, the superior 5–7-nerved; lemmas 2.2–2.6 mm long, 5–7-nerved, gibbously ovate, lightly keeled, glabrous on the margins.
Habitat
Sand dunes at the edge of coastal thickets
Altitude range
0–90 m.
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Distribution
Mozambique M between Maputo (Lourenço Marques) and Costa do Sol, 1.iv.1948, Schweickerdt 1911 (K).Mozambique GI Massinga Distr., Pomene, xii.1971, Tinley 2248 (K; SRGH).
Distribution (external)
South Africa (KwaZulu-Natal)

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