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Cymbopogon caesius

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Name

Identification
Cymbopogon caesius (Chiov.) Sales [family POACEAE ] Verified by Sales, Cymbopogon giganteus Chiov. [family POACEAE ] (stored under name); Isotype of Andropogon giganteus Hochst. [family POACEAE ]
Related name
  • Andropogon bicorne
  • Andropogon excavatus
  • Andropogon connatus
  • Cymbopogon excavatus
  • Cymbopogon plicatus
  • Cymbopogon giganteus
  • Andropogon caesius
  • Cymbopogon schoenanthus
  • Cymbopogon caesius
  • Andropogon giganteus
  • Andropogon flavicundus

Flora

Entry for CYMBOPOGON caesius (Nees ex Hook. & Arn.) Stapf [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
CYMBOPOGON caesius (Nees ex Hook. & Arn.) Stapf [family POACEAE], (1906). Fig. 155.
CYMBOPOGON connatus (Hochst. ex A. Rich.) Chiov. [family POACEAE], (1909).
CYMBOPOGON excavatus (Hochst.) Stapf [family POACEAE], (1919).
Information
Tufted wiry perennial up to 120 cm high; ligule membranous, 1–4 mm long; leaves rounded at the base, up to 8(–10) mm wide, glaucous. False panicle linear to oblong, 5–20(–30) cm long; racemes 10–15 mm long, the lowermost internode and pedicel connate and swollen. Sessile spikelet narrowly elliptic, 3–4.5 mm long; lower glume firmly membranous, narrowly to broadly winged, shallowly concave on the back and with a V-shaped groove in the lower 1/3–1/2, without intercarinal nerves (or these obscure and confined to the tip) or oil-streaks; awn of upper lemma 6–15 mm long, with distinct column. Pedicelled spikelet narrowly lanceolate, 3–5 mm long, with clear closely spaced nerves.
Range
N1; S3 Sudan and Arabia (Yemen) through eastern Africa to South Africa
Distribution
SOMALIA Drake-Brockman 463; Tozzi 509.
Distribution (external)
India
Sri Lanka
Notes
Sandul (Som.).

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