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Chloris virgata

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Identification
Chloris virgata Sw. [family POACEAE ]
Related name
  • Chloris virgata
Common name
  • old lands grass; sweet grass (Burkill)., Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 2
  • Volta) garbere (K&T) (UPPER VOLTA, FULA-FULFULDE (Upper), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 2

Flora

Entry for CHLORIS virgata Sw. [family POACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Somalia
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Somalia, Vol 4, (1995) Author: by T. A. Cope [updated by M. Thulin 2008]
Names
CHLORIS virgata Sw. [family POACEAE], (1797). Fig. 111.
CHLORIS virgata (Kunth) Stapf var. elegans [family POACEAE], in Dyer, Fl. Cap. 7: 642 (1900).
CHLORIS multiradiata Hochst. [family POACEAE], (1855).
Information
Annual up to 70 cm high, erect or ascending, occasionally rooting at the lower nodes; leaves linear, tapering. Inflorescence a head of 4–8 digitate racemes, these 2.5–5 cm long. Spikelets 3-flowered, 2-awned; fertile lemma obliquely obovate in profile, the keel slightly gibbous, 2–3.6 mm long, shortly ciliate on the margins, flanks and keel, with a crown of spreading hairs 1.5–4 mm long just below the tip, and with an awn 2.5–8.5 mm long; 2nd lemma an oblong glabrous scale; 3rd lemma a clavate glabrous awnless scale.
Range
N1, 2; C2; S1–3 throughout the tropics.
Altitude range
200–1500 m.
Distribution
SOMALIA Wood 73/169; McKinnon 249; Beckett 271; Hemming & Deshmukh 268; Dahir & Rose Innes ODA9; Paoli 316.
Notes
Agar, aus dug, rareh biyud (Som.).

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