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Chaetopoa taylori

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Identification
Isotype of Chaetopoa taylori C.E.Hubb. [family POACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on sheet,
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Flora

Entry for CHAETOPOA taylori 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, page 451, (1982) Author: W. D. CLAYTON and S.A. RENVOIZE
Names
CHAETOPOA taylori C.E. Hubbard [family POACEAE], in Hook., Ic. Pl. 37, fig. 3646 (1967). Type: Tanzania, Songea District, Litenga Hill, Milne-Redhead & Taylor 9684 (K, holo.!)
Information
Annual; culms 30–60 cm. high, ascending. Leaf-blades 6.5–30 cm. long, 2–6 mm. wide. Inflorescence 3.5–7 cm. long, the clusters with glabrous pedicels. Outer spikelets 3.5–4 mm. long (excluding awns), the awned glumes about as long but one in each cluster longer (8.5–12 mm.) than the rest; lower lemma mucronate; upper lemma commonly present. Inner spikelet a little larger; upper glume subulate from a broad base, almost as long as the spikelet; lower lemma acuminate to an awn-point 1.5 mm. long; upper lemma acuminate. Fig. 152.
Range
DISTR. T8 not known elsewhere
Altitude range
1170 m.
Distribution
TANZANIA Songea District Litenga Hill, 19 Apr. 1956, Milne-Redhead & Taylor 9684!

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