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Cymbosetaria sagittifolia

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Name

Identification
Setaria sagittifolia (A.Rich.) Walp. [family POACEAE ] (stored under name); Panicum sagittifolium Hochst. [family POACEAE ] Cymbosetaria sagittifolia (A.Rich.) Schweick. [family POACEAE ] Verified by Schweickerdt, H.G.,
Related name
  • Pennisetum sagittifolium
  • Setaria sagittifolia
  • Panicum sagittifolium
  • Cymbosetaria sagittifolia

Flora

Entry for SETARIA sagittifolia (A. Rich.) Walp. [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, page 451, (1982) Author: W. D. CLAYTON and S.A. RENVOIZE
Names
SETARIA sagittifolia (A. Rich.) Walp. [family POACEAE], Ann. Bot. Syst. 3: 721 (1852); F.T.A. 9: 862 (1930); Ann. list Nyasaland grasses: 59 (1958). Types: Ethiopia, Tchélatchékanné, Schimper 1655 (K, isosyn.!) & Quartin Dillon (P, syn.)
Pennisetum sagittifolium A. Rich. [family POACEAE], Tent. Fl. Abyss. 2: 379 (1851)
Panicum barbigerum Bertol. [family POACEAE], in Mem. Acad. Sci. Bologna 3: 250, fig. 19/1–2 (1851). Type: Mozambique, Inhambane, Fornasini (BOLO, holo.)
Panicum sagittifolium (A. Rich.) Steud. [family POACEAE], Syn. Pl. Glum. 1: 54 (1854)
Setaria barbigera (Bertol.) Stapf [family POACEAE], in F.T.A. 9: 862 (1930)
Cymbosetaria sagittifolia (A. Rich.) Schweick. [family POACEAE], in Hook., Ic. Pl. 34, t. 3320 (1936); R.K.G.: 42 (1958); G.T.: 87 (1965)
Information
Weak-stemmed annual; culms 20–80 cm. high. Leaf-blades broadly linear to narrowly lanceolate, 5–30 cm. long, 3–11 mm. wide, at least the lower blades falsely petiolate and sagittate, the lobes 2–30 mm. long. Panicle narrowly oblong to ovate, 3–15 cm. long, the spikelets secund along scaberulous raceme-like primary branches; bristles 2–15 mm. long. Spikelets suborbicular, 2 mm. long, laterally compressed; lower glume 1/3, the upper 1/2 as long as the spikelet; lower floret ♂ or barren, the lemma not grooved, its palea ± reduced; upper lemma conspicuously gibbous, keeled, rugose. Fig. 128.
Range
DISTR. K1, 3, 4, 7; T1–3, 6–8 Sudan and Yemen to South Africa
Altitude range
0–1700 m.
Distribution
KENYA Northern Frontier Province Dandu, 8 May 1952, Gillett 13116!KENYA Baringo District Marigat, 22 Aug. 1956, Bogdan 4229!KENYA Tana River District Kurawa, 5 Oct. 1961, Polhill & Paulo 604!TANZANIA Pare District 40 km. S. of Same, 13 Aug. 1968, Renvoize& Abdallah 1458!TANZANIA Tanga District near Bomalandani, 5 Aug. 1953, Drummond & Hemsley 3653!TANZANIA Iringa District Msembe–Kimiramatonge Circuit, 24 Feb. 1970, Greenway & Kanuri 13955!
Notes
The curious leaf-blades and strongly gibbous spikelets represent the extreme expression of tendencies manifested within Setaria, and scarcely justify the isolation of this species in a separate genus Cymbosetaria.

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