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Cenchrus setosus

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Name

Identification
Pennisetum setosum (Sw.) Rich. [family POACEAE ] (stored under name); Cenchrus setosus Sw. [family POACEAE ]
Related name
  • Pennisetum purpurascens
  • Cenchrus setosus
  • Pennisetum setosum
  • Pennisetum polystachion
  • Pennisetum indicum

Flora

Entry for PENNISETUM polystachion subsp. polystachion [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
PENNISETUM polystachion subsp. polystachion [family POACEAE]
Panicum polystachion L. [family POACEAE], Syst. Nat., ed. 10, 2: 870 (1759)
Cenchrus setosus Sw. [family POACEAE], Prodr. Veg. Ind. Occ: 26 (1788). Type: Jamaica, Swartz (S, holo.!)
Pennisetum setosum (Sw.) Rich. [family POACEAE], in Pers., Syn. Pl. 1: 72 (1805)
Panicum cauda-ratti Schumach. [family POACEAE], Beskr. Guin. Pl.: 59 (1827). Type: Ghana, Thonning (C, holo.!)
Panicum subangustum Schumach. [family POACEAE], Beskr. Guin. Pl.: 59 (1827). Type: Ghana, Thonning (C, holo.!)
Pennisetum gracile Benth. [family POACEAE], in Hook., Niger Fl.: 564 (1849). Type: Sierra Leone, Don (BM, holo.)
Pennisetum elegans Steud. [family POACEAE], Syn. Pl. Glum. 1: 105 (1854). Type: Sierra Leone (whereabouts uncertain, not P)
Pennisetum tenuispiculatum Steud. [family POACEAE], Syn. Pl. Glum. 1:107 (1854). Type: Gabon, Jardin in Lenormand (P, holo.!)
Pennisetum reversum Hack. [family POACEAE], in Verh. Bot. Ver. Brandenb. 31: 68 (1890). Type: Zaire, Muene Putu Kassongo, Buettner 564 (B, holo.!)
Pennisetum cauda-ratti (Schumach.) Franch. [family POACEAE], in Bull. Soc. Hist. Nat. Autun 8: 360 (1895)
Pennisetum gabonense Franch. [family POACEAE], in Bull. Soc. Hist. Nat. Autun 8: 365 (1895). Type: Gabon, Libreville, Vavin (P, holo.)
Pennisetum stenostachyum Peter [family POACEAE], F.D.O.-A. 1, Anh.: 70, fig. 36 (1930). Type: Tanzania, E. Usambara Mts., Magunga-Bombo hill, Peter 18632 (B, holo.†, W. iso.!)
Pennisetum subangustum (Schumach.) Stapf & Hubbard [family POACEAE], in K.B. 1933: 271 (1933) & in F.T.A. 9: 1062 (1934); Fl. Agrost. Congo Belge 2: 356 (1934); Clayton in F.T.W.A., ed. 2, 3:461 (1972)
Pennisetum polystachion (Sw.) Brunken subsp. setosum [family POACEAE], in J.L.S. 79: 63 (1979)
Information
Annual or perennial; involucral bristles densely ciliate.
Range
DISTR. U1–4; K3–5, 7; T1, 3–8; Z; P throughout the tropics
Altitude range
0–2400 m.
Distribution
KENYA Meru District Mitunguu, 9 July 1953, Bogdan 3756!KENYA Kwale, 13 Apr. 1968, Magogo & Glover 824!KENYA Kilifi District 6.5 km. N. of Malindi, Sabaki, 12 Nov. 1961, Polhill & Paulo 744!TANZANIA Ufipa District Milepa, 26 May 1951, Bullock 3899!TANZANIA Kilosa District Ilonga, bed of Matarawe R., 25 May 1968, Renvoize & Abdallah 2376!TANZANIA Uzaramo District Kisarawe, 31 July 1937, Greenway 4973!TANZANIA Zanzibar I., Mahonda Swamp, 21 Feb. 1964, Faulkner 3344!TANZANIA Pemba I., Pandani, 13 Dec. 1930, Greenway 2719!UGANDA Lango District Ayer, 4 Nov. 1941, A.S. Thomas 3996!UGANDA Teso District Serere, 17 Feb. 1956 Harker 247!UGANDA Mbale District Bugishu, Budama and Bunyole, 21 June 1927, Snowden 1124!

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