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Dichanthium caricosum

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Name

Identification
Dichanthium caricosum (L.) A.Camus [family POACEAE ] (stored under name); Andropogon tenellus Roxb. [family POACEAE ]
Related name
  • Heteropogon molliconum
  • Dichanthium aristatum
  • Andropogon incurvatus
  • Heteropogon concinnus
  • Dichanthium caricosum
  • Dichanthium nodosum
  • Andropogon tenellus
  • Andropogon aristatum
  • Andropogon mollicomus
  • Heteropogon mollicomus
Common name
  • hay grass (Antigua, Burkill); nadi blue grass (Kenya, Muthambi)., Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 2

Flora

Entry for DICHANTHIUM caricosum (L.) A. Camus [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
DICHANTHIUM caricosum (L.) A. Camus [family POACEAE], in Bull. Mus. Hist. Nat. Paris 27:549 (1921); G.T.: 100 (1965); de Wet & Harlan in Bol. Soc. Arg. Bot. 12:215 (1968). Type: India, ? Burmann (?G, not LINN)
Andropogon caricosus L. [family POACEAE], Sp. Pl., ed. 2: 1480 (1763)
Information
Perennial; culms 25–100 cm. high, geniculately ascending. Leaf-blades 3–20 cm. long, 2–7 mm. wide. Inflorescence composed of 1–10 subdigitate shortly pedunculate racemes, the peduncles glabrous; racemes 3–7.5 cm. long, the spikelets imbricate, with 1–3 smaller homogamous pairs at the base. Sessile spikelet elliptic to obovate, 3–4 mm. long; lower glume firmly chartaceous, broadly convex, pilose below the middle, glabrous above or with scattered hairs near margin and apex, broadly obtuse or with a subacute membranous tip; awn 10–20 mm. long.
Range
DISTR. T3, 5, 6 India and SE. Asia, introduced to Mauritius and tropical America
Altitude range
100–1000 m.
Distribution
TANZANIA Pangani District Kilimangwido area, 22 July 1973, Bond 98!TANZANIA Mpwapwa, 24 May 1947, van Rensburg 430!TANZANIA Kilosa District Mikumi National Park, 28 June 1977, Wingfield 3897A!
Notes
The source of Linnaeus’ description has not been traced. It was clearly not based upon the figure of Imperata cylindrica which he cites.

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