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Craspedorhachis uniflora

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Identification
Isotype of Leptochloa uniflora Hochst. ex A.Rich. [family POACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on sheet, Craspedorhachis uniflora (Hochst. ex A.Rich.) Chippind. [family POACEAE ] Verified by Not on sheet,
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Flora

Entry for LEPTOCHLOA unifiora A. Rich. [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
LEPTOCHLOA unifiora A. Rich. [family POACEAE], ,Tent. Fl. Abyss. 2: 409 (1851); Ann. list grasses Ug.: 26 (1947); R.K.G.: 22 (1958); Ann. list Nyasaland grasses: 47 (1958); I.G.U.: 40 (1960); G.T.: 26 (1965); Clayton in F.W.T.A., ed. 2, 3: 397 (1972). Type: Ethiopia, Tacazzé valley, Schimper 1707 (P, holo., K, iso.!)
Craspedorhachis menyharthii Hack. [family POACEAE], in Bull. Herb. Boiss., sér. 2, 1: 770 (1901). Type: Mozambique, Tete, Boroma, Menyharth (Z, nolo.)
Leptochloa laurentii De Wild. [family POACEAE], Miss. Laurent 1: 207 (1906). Type: Zaire, Kinshasa, Kiri, E. Laurent (BR, holo.!)
Craspedorhachis uniflora (A. Rich.) Chippindall [family POACEAE], in Meredith, Grasses Past. S. Afr.:205 (1955); Piovano in Webbia 13: 310 (1957)
Information
Tufted annual or short-lived perennial; culms up to 150 cm. high, slender, erect or geniculately ascending. Leaf-blades broad, lanceolate-oblong to oblong, 4–12 cm. long, 6–18 mm. wide, flat, thin and flaccid, smooth on both sides, acute. Inflorescence oblong to narrowly oblong, 15–45 cm. long, pale green to yellowish; racemes numerous, very slender, 2.5–9 cm. long, ascending, straight or slightly arching. Spikelets 1-flowered, 1.9–2.8 mm. long, subsessile, overlapping; glumes broadly linear in profile, subequal, exceeding the floret, sharply acuminate, lower glume 1.7–2.3 mm. long, slightly falcate, upper glume 1.8–2.4 mm. long, straight; lemma narrowly elliptic in profile, 1.5–1.7 mm. long, minutely hairy along the nerves, entire, acute. Caryopsis narrowly elliptic, 1–1.2 mm. long, dark reddish brown, trigonous in cross-section, deeply sulcate on the hilar side.
Range
DISTR. U1–3; K2, 7; T1, 3–8; Z tropical S. Africa
Altitude range
0–1300 m.
Distribution
KENYA Kwale District Mrima Hill, 7 Sept. 1957, Verdcourt 1913 ! & 80 km. SW. of Mombasa, 11 Jan. 1954, Bogdan 3910!KENYA Lamu District 24 km. NW. of Kiunga, 13 Sept. 1961, Gillespie 195 !TANZANIA Pare District Kisiwani [Kisuani], 6 Feb. 1930, Greenway 2170!TANZANIA Ufipa District Milepa, 19 Feb. 1950, Bullock 2453!TANZANIA Morogoro District 5 km. N. of Tununguo, 14 July 1962, Boaler 625 !TANZANIA Zanzibar I., Mkokotoni, 18 Sept. 1962, Faulkner 3100!UGANDA Karamoja District Lodoketemit, 16 July 1959, Kerfoot 1195!UGANDA Toro District Bwamba, Buranga [Bulanga], 30 Sept. 1932, A. S. Thomas 743 !UGANDA Mbale District Kachumbala, 12 Sept. 1946, A. S. Thomas 4525 !
Distribution (external)
India
Ceylon
Notes
L. uniflora is a very variable species, ranging from delicate thin-stemmed annuals to much stouter, more erect plants with somewhat longer thicker leaves and perennating buds among the roots.

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