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Chloris notocoma

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Name

Identification
Chloris notocoma Hochst. [family POACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by C. F. F. Hochstetter,
Related name
  • Chloris virgata
  • Chloris notocoma

Flora

Entry for CHLORIS virgata Sw. [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
CHLORIS virgata Sw. [family POACEAE], ,Fl. Ind. Occ. 1: 203 (1797); Ann. list grasses Ug.: 9 (1947); F.P.S. 3: 418 (1956); Ann. list Nyasaland grasses: 33 (1958); R.K.G.: 25 (1958); I.G.U.: 22 (1960); G.T.: 41 (1965); Clayton in F.W.T.A., ed. 2, 3: 400 (1972). Type: Antigua, Swartz (S, holo.!)
CHLORIS elegans Kunth [family POACEAE], Nov. Gen. & Sp. 1: 166, t. 49 (1816). Type: Mexico, Humboldt & Bonpland (P, holo., K, microfiche !)
CHLORIS meccana Sohlechtendal [family POACEAE], in Linnaea 18: 158 (1844). Type: Saudi Arabia, Mecca, Schimper 802 (K, iso.!)
CHLORIS cryptostachya J. A. Schmidt [family POACEAE], Beitr. Fl. Cap. Verd. Ins.: 148 (1852). Type: Cape Verde Is., Boa Vista, Schmidt (P, holo.)
CHLORIS multiradiata Hochst. [family POACEAE], in Flora 38: 204 (1855). Type: Ethiopia, Schimper in Herb. Buchinger 486 (K, iso.!)
CHLORIS notocoma Hochst. [family POACEAE], in Flora 38: 204 (1855). Type: Ethiopia, Schimper in Herb. Hohenacker 2125 (P, iso. !)
CHLORIS repens Hochst. [family POACEAE], in Flora 38: 204 (1855). Type: Ethiopia, Schimper in Herb. Buchinger 1110 (P, iso. !)
CHLORIS brachystachys Anderss. [family POACEAE], in Peters, Reise Mossamb., Bot. 1: 556 (1864). Type: Zanzibar, Peters (whereabouts uncertain, not B)
CHLORIS virgata (Kunth) Stapf var. elegans [family POACEAE], in Fl. Cap. 7: 642 (1900); E.A. Pasture Plants 1: 52 (1926); Ann. list grasses Ug.: 9 (1947)
CHLORIS polydactyla (Hochst.) Chiov. subsp. multiradiata [family POACEAE], in Ann. Ist. Bot. Roma 8: 54 (1903)
CHLORIS ciliata [family POACEAE], [sensu Peter, F.D.O.-A. 1: 261 (1931), non Sw.]
CHLORIS rogeonii A. Chev. [family POACEAE], in Rev. Bot. Appliq. 14: 127 (1934), as “ rogeoni ”. Types: Mali, Chevalier 42357, 43871 & 43937 (P, syn.!)
Information
Annual; culms up to 1 m. high, erect or geniculately ascending, occasionally rooting at the lower nodes. Leaf-blades flat, 10–30 cm. long, 2–6 mm. wide, tapering at the apex; basal sheaths strongly keeled and often flabellate. Inflorescence of 4–12 digitate, spreading, feathery spikes 2–10 cm. long. Spikelets (2–)3-flowered, 2-awned; lower glume 1.5–2.5 mm. long; upper glume 2.5–4.5 mm. long, including the short awn-point if present; lowest lemma obliquely obovate in side view, 2.5–4 mm. long, pallid or dark, ciliate along the margins, keel and flanks, with a crown of hairs 1.5–4 mm. long at the apex, the awn 5–15 mm. long; callus rounded, pilose; 2nd lemma slightly projecting from the side of the lowest lemma, oblong, 2–2.5 mm. long, glabrous, with an awn 5–12 mm. long; 3rd lemma an awnless clavate scale 0.5–1.2 mm. long. Fig. 97, p. 344.
Range
DISTR. U1–4; K1–7; T1–8 widely distributed throughout the tropics
Altitude range
10–2000 m.
Distribution
KENYA Turkana District foot of E. slope of Pelekech range, on road to Kakuma, June 1934, Buxton 1040 !KENYA Masai District 1.5 km. from Magadi on Nairobi Road, 30 June 1962, Glover, Samuel & Wateridge 2996 !KENYA Kilifi District Malindi, May 1959, Rawlins 682 !TANZANIA Musoma District Serengeti, Seronera, 20 Mar. 1961, Greenway 9863!TANZANIA Mpanda District near Tumba, 29 Jan. 1951, Bullock 3640 !TANZANIA Njombe, Emson 111 !UGANDA Karamoja District 10 km. W. of Moroto, 22 Oct. 1955, Langdale-Brown 1586 !UGANDA Ankole District Mbarara, 12 June 1929, Snowden 1370 !UGANDA Busoga District Butembe-Bunya county, 22 Aug. 1952, G. H. S. Wood 326 !

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