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Chloris paspaloides

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Identification
Isotype of Chloris paspaloides Hochst. [family POACEAE ] Verified by Not on sheet, Eustachys paspaloides (Vahl) Lanza & Mattei [family POACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on sheet,
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  • Eustachys paspaloides
  • Chloris paspaloides

Flora

Entry for EUSTACHYS paspaloides (Vahl) Lanza & Mattei [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
EUSTACHYS paspaloides (Vahl) Lanza & Mattei [family POACEAE], in Boll. Ort. Bot. Palermo 9: 56 (1910); R.K.G.: 25 (1958); Ann. list Nyasaland grasses: 41 (1958); I.G.U.: 33 (1960); G.T.: 40 (1965). Type: South Africa, Cape, Bulow (C, holo., K, microfiche !)
Andropogon capensis Houtt. [family POACEAE], Nat. Hist. 13: 579, t. 93/3 (1782), nom. superfl.
Cynosurus paspaloides Vahl [family POACEAE], Symb. Bot. 2: 21, t. 27 (1791)
Chloris paspaloides Hochst. [family POACEAE], in Flora 38: 206 (1855). Type: Ethiopia, Schimper 1400 (STR, holo.)
Chloris capensis (Houtt.) Thell. [family POACEAE], in F.R. 10: 289 (1912); Merr. in Journ. Arn. Arb. 19: 317 (1938)
Eustachys capensis (Houtt.) Chiov. [family POACEAE], in Webbia 8: 115 (1951)
Information
Perennial; culms 20–80 cm. tall, erect or geniculately ascending. Leaf-blades 2–18 cm. long, 2–5 mm. wide, abruptly acute; sheaths flabellate, in bunches at the lower nodes, glabrous or sparsely hairy and scaberulous along the keels. Inflorescence of (3–)4–10(–15) spikes. Spikelets golden to dark brown in colour; lower glume ovate, boat-shaped, 0.7–1.6 mm. long, 1-nerved, sparsely scaberulous on the back; upper glume oblong-elliptic, 1–2 mm. long, 1-nerved, scaberulous, with an antrorsely scabrid awn 0.5–1.5 mm. long; fertile lemma ovate (in side view), 1.5–2.4 mm. long, glabrous or sparsely pubescent, ± ciliate along the keel and side nerves, emarginate (when flattened) with membranous lobes, obtuse in side view, with or without a mucro up to 1 mm. long; sterile floret 1.2–1.5 mm. long, truncate. Fig. 95, p. 336.
Range
DISTR. U1–3; K3–7; T1–8 Zaire, Ethiopia and Arabia southwards to the Cape
Altitude range
900–2000 m.
Distribution
KENYA Meru District 32 km. E. of Isiolo, 10 Dec. 1960, Stewart 480!KENYA Masai District Aitong enclosure, 1 Apr. 1961, Glover, Gwynne & Samuel [ Paulo ] 243!KENYA Kwale District Shimba Hills, 27 Jan. 1959, Moomaw 1288 !TANZANIA Musoma District S. of Ndabaka plains, 1 Dec. 1956, Greenway 9093!TANZANIA Ufipa District 12 km. S. of Sumbawanga, 30 Dec. 1961, Robinson 4821 !TANZANIA Kondoa District Itundwi, 14 Jan. 1928, B. D. Burtt 1085 !UGANDA Karamoja District Mt. Moroto, Sept. 1955, J. G. Wilson 199!UGANDA Ankole District Ruizi R., 14 Oct. 1950, T. Jarrett 71!UGANDA Busoga District Bugiri, 17 Dec. 1952, G. H. S. Wood 562 !
Notes
Houttuyn figured this species under the caption Andropogon capensis, but referred to it in the text as A. muticus L. (Sp. Pl., ed. 2: 1482 (1763)), thus rendering his name superfluous. The identity of A. muticus (Eustachys muticus (L.) Cuf., E.P.A.: 1293 (1969)) is uncertain but its description is not that of this species.  E. paspaloides closely resembles several New World species, but in these the fertile lemma is acute in side view.

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