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Chrysochloa orientalis

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Name

Identification
Chrysochloa orientalis (C.E.Hubb.) Swallen [family GRAMINEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Greenway PG, 1947
Related name
  • Chrysochloa orientalis
  • Bracteola orientalis

Flora

Entry for CHRYSOCHLOA orientalis (C. E. Hubbard) Swallen [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 orientalis (C. E. Hubbard) Swallen [family POACEAE], in Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash. 54: 44 (1941); F.P.N.A.3: 156 (1955); R.K.G.: 26 (1958); I.G.U.: 22 (1960); G.T.: 43 (1965). Type: Tanzania, Shinyanga, Huru Huru Mbuga, Staples 407 (K, holo.!, EA, iso.!)
Bracteola orientalis C. E. Hubbard [family POACEAE], in K.B. 1934: 117 (1934); Ann. list grasses Ug.: 8 (1947)
Information
Stoloniferous or tufted perennial; culms 15–75 cm. high. Leaf-blades 2–19 cm. long, 3–5(–7) mm. wide; sheaths keeled, loosely flabellate. Inflorescence of 2–3 digitate spikes 5–18 cm. long. Spikelets narrowly oblong, 3.5–5 mm. long; upper glume 3.5–4.5 mm. long, 3–5-nerved, acute, awnless; lemma 3.3–4 mm. long, with a mucro up to 1 mm. long; anthers 1.2–1.5 mm. long; upper floret 2.5–3 mm. long. Fig. 92.
Range
DISTR. U1, 2; K4, 5, 6; T1
Altitude range
1000–1700 m.
Distribution
KENYA Machakos District Fourteen Falls, 27 Apr. 1960, Napper 1528 !KENYA Kisumu, 14 Mar. 1951, Bogdan 2925 !KENYA Masai District Mara area, Aitong airstrip, 15 June 1961, Glover, Gwynne & Samwell [ Paulo ] 1557 !TANZANIA Kwimba District Ngudu, Lewys Lloyd 9 !TANZANIA Shinyanga District upper Ningwa [Ninghua], Mar. 1936, B. D. Burtt 5666!TANZANIA Musoma District Seronera, 21 Mar. 1961, Greenway 9873 !UGANDA Karamoja District near Napak, 1 June 1940, A. S. Thomas 3670 ! & Amuda, Sept. 1955, J. Wilson 204 !UGANDA Toro District Kazinga Channel, 23 Mar. 1961, McKay 30!
Distribution (external)
Zaire

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