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Cynosurus retroflexus

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Identification
Dinebra retroflexa (Vahl) Panz. [family POACEAE ] (stored under name); Cynosurus retroflexus Vahl [family POACEAE ]
Related name
  • Cynosurus sp.
  • Dinebra retroflexa
  • Cynosurus retroflexus

Flora

Entry for DINEBRA retroflexa var. retroflexa [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
DINEBRA retroflexa var. retroflexa [family POACEAE]
Cynosurus retroflexus Vahl [family POACEAE], Symb. Bot. 2: 20 (1791)
Dinebra arabica Jacq. [family POACEAE], Fragm.: 77, t. 121/1 (1809); P. Beauv., Ess. Agrost.: 98, t. 16/2 (1812) as “ Dineba ”. Type: cultivated at Vienna Botanic Garden (W, holo.!)
Dactylis paspaloides Willd. [family POACEAE], Enum. Hort. Berol.: 111 (1809), nom. superfl. Based on Cynosurus retroflexus Vahl
Dinebra ? paspaloides (Willd.) P. Beauv. [family ], Ess. Agrost.: 98, 160 (1812), as “ Dineba ”
Dinebra ? aegyptiaca Del. [family ], Fl. d’Egypte: 26, t. 11/3 (1813), as “ Dinaeba ”, nom. superfl. Type: Egypt, Damiette, Delile (MPU, holo.!)
Leptochloa arabica (Jacq.) Kunth [family POACEAE], Rév. Gram. 1: 91 (1829)
Dinebra brevifolia Steud. [family POACEAE], Syn. Pl. Glum. 1: 299 (1854). Type: Ethiopia, Tigre, near Shire, Dschogarti Mts., Schimper 527 (P, holo., K, iso.!)
Dinebra retroflexa (Steud.) Th. Dur. & Schinz var. brevifolia [family POACEAE], Consp. Fl. Afr. 5: 865 (1895)
Information
Inflorescence open, narrowly elliptic-oblong to pyramidal, with distant spikes 5.5–30 mm. apart; spikes linear, up to 7 cm. long; spikelets often 3-flowered.
Range
DISTR. K2, 3; T3 W. Africa eastwards to Sudan and Ethiopia and northwards to Egypt
Distribution
KENYA W. Suk District Akarat, June 1957, Pratt 5716 !KENYA Turkana District 32 km. SE. of Lodwar, 17 July 1954, Hemming 335 !KENYA Baringo District SW. of Lake Baringo, Oct. 1956, Pratt !TANZANIA Pare District Kiruru, May 1927, Haarer 478 !
Distribution (external)
Iraq
India

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