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Chrysochloa hindsii

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Name

Identification
Chrysochloa hindsii C.E.Hubb. [family POACEAE ]
Related name
  • Chrysochloa hindsii
Common name
  • pétrépin ragha (Scholz) (UPPER VOLTA, MOORE), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 2

Flora

Entry for CHRYSOCHLOA hindsii C. E. Hubbard [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, Part (Part 2), page 177, (1974) Author: W. D. CLAYTON, S. M. PHILLIPS AND S. A. RENVOIZE
Names
CHRYSOCHLOA hindsii C. E. Hubbard [family POACEAE], in K.B. 4: 349 (1949); Clayton in F.W.T.A., ed. 2, 3: 402 (1972). Type: Ghana, Babile, Hinds 5000 (K, holo.!)
CHRYSOCHLOA annua C. E. Hubbard [family POACEAE], in K.B. 12: 59 (1957). Type: Ghana, Damongo, Hinds 16 (K, holo.!)
CHRYSOCHLOA caespitosa W. D. Clayton [family POACEAE], in K.B. 14: 239 (1960). Type: Ghana, Accra, Johnson 1018 (K, holo.!)
Information
Stoloniferous or sometimes caespitose annual; culms 10–70 cm. high, erect or geniculate. Leaf-blades 1–17 cm. long, 2–5 mm. wide. Inflorescence with (1–)2–4(–5) digitate spikes 1–12 cm. long. Spikelets ovate, 3–4 mm. long; upper glume 3–4 mm. long, 1-nerved, with a short awn-point 0.5–1 mm. long; lemma 2.5–4 mm. long, with an awn 1–2.5 mm. long; anthers 0.6–1.2 mm. long; upper floret 1.5–2.5 mm. long.
Range
DISTR. T4 W. Africa
Altitude range
1500 m.
Distribution
TANZANIA Ufipa District Lake Kwela, 11 Mar. 1959, McCallum Webster T.39! & Vesey-FitzGerald 2319!
Distribution (external)
Zambia
Malawi
Notes
C. subaequigluma (Rendle) Swallen (C. lucida (Swallen) Swallen) from Angola resembles C. hindsii, but has larger spikelets (4.5–5 mm.) and anthers (1.6–2 mm.).

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