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Cymbopogon divaricatus

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Name

Identification
Cymbopogon commutatus (Steud.) Stapf [family POACEAE ] (stored under name); Cymbopogon divaricatus Stapf [family POACEAE ]
Related name
  • Cymbopogon divaricatus
  • Cymbopogon commutatus

Flora

Entry for CYMBOPOGON commutatus (Steud.) 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 commutatus (Steud.) Stapf [family POACEAE], (1907).
CYMBOPOGON floccosus (Schweinf.) Stapf [family POACEAE], (1919).
CYMBOPOGON divaricatus Stapf [family POACEAE], (1919);. types: N1, Drake-Brockman 410, 411 (K syn.).
Information
Tufted perennial up to 150 cm high; leaves attenuate at the base. False panicle linear to narrowly oblong, 5–35 cm long; racemes 15–30 mm long, ciliate with hairs up to 2 mm long, the lowermost pedicel swollen, free from the adjacent internode which itself is sometimes swollen. Sessile spikelet narrowly lanceolate, 4–7 mm long; lower glume chartaceous, glabrous or pubescent, nerveless or with 2–3 intercarinal nerves in the upper 1/3, shallowly to deeply concave between the keels, these rounded in the lower 1/2 and often separated by a gibbous swelling at the base; awn of upper lemma 10–20 mm long, geniculate and with a distinct column. Pedicelled spikelet narrowly lanceolate, 4.5–7 mm long.
Range
N1–3; C1 tropical Africa eastwards through Arabia to Iraq and India.
Altitude range
200–1590 m.
Distribution
SOMALIA McKinnon 35; Bally & Melville 15987; Thulin & Warfa 5956; Herlocker 422.
Notes
Arabjib, aus gudud, carowe, daremo-as, hadaf, lebjir (Som.).

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