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Dinebra guineensis

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Identification
Dinebra guineensis Franch. [family POACEAE ] Heteranthoecia guineensis (Franch.) Robyns [family POACEAE ] (stored under name);
Related name
  • Dinebra guineensis
  • Heteranthoecia guineensis

Flora

Entry for HETERANTHŒCIA guineensis Robyns [family ]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of Tropical Africa, Vol 9, page 1, (1917) Author: (By O. STAPF.)
Names
HETERANTHŒCIA guineensis Robyns [family ], in Bull. Jard. Bot. Brux. ix. 201 (1932).
HETERANTHŒCIA isachnoides Stapf [family ], in Hook. Ic. Plant, xxx. t. 2927 (1911); Chevalier, Sudania, i. 106, 135, and Étud. Fl. Afr. Centr. Franç. i. 378.
Dinebra guineensis Franch. [family POACEAE], Contr. Fl. Congo Franç, 68 (Bull. Soc. Hist. Nat. Autun. viii. 376: 1895).
Dinebra tuaënsis Vanderyst [family POACEAE], in Bull. Agric. Congo Beige, xi. 123 (1920).
Information
Culms very slender, rooting at the lower nodes, 5–12 in. high, branched from or below the middle or simple, terete, glabrous, up to 16-noded with the nodes mostly exserted. Leaf-sheaths tight or the upper more or less swollen, 2 1/2–6 lin. long, glabrous or pubescent at the nodes, the upper mostly long-ciliate at the margins; ligule a line of loose fine hairs up to 1 1/2 lin. long; blade lanceolate, subacute or obtuse, slightly contracted at the base, 6–10 lin. long, 1–2 1/2 lin. wide, flat or becoming involute when dry, more or less rigid, finely and appressedly pilose below from minute tubercles or glabrous, closely nerved and asperulous above, margins scaberulous. Panicle 3/4–2 3/4 in. long; axis flattened or slightly hollowed out on the side facing a branch, smooth; branches 15–2 (averaging 8 or 9), the lower and intermediate 2 1/2–7 lin. long, the upper slightly shorter; rhachis straight or slightly curved, about 1/4– 1/3 lin. wide, tapering to a blunt hard naked tip, subconvex and smooth on the back, ciliate on the margins with slender rigid tubercle-based hairs nearly as long as the spikelets. Spikelets 4/5–1 1/6 lin. long. Glumes 1/2– 7/8 lin. long, glabrous or with one or more hairs at the base. Lower floret 3/4–1 1/6 lin. long. Anthers 1/5– 3/5 lin. long. Upper floret 2/5– 1/2 lin. long. Grain pale brown, about 1/4 lin. long.
Distribution
Gaboon Lower Guinea in the sands of Bouando, Griffon du Bellay !Congo Lower Guinea Thollon!Congo Lower Guinea between Dembo and Kisantu, Gillet, 1597! Dumu, Vanderyst, 4849! Leverville, Vanderyst, 6311! between Niangara and Wamba, Lebrun, 3251!Tanganyika Mozamb. Dist. Bukoba District; Bukoba, 3750 ft., Haarer, 2471! Biharamulo road, 4000 ft., Haarer, 2065 !Ubangi-Shari North Central Dar-Banda, at the sources of the Ndellé River, damp places, Chevalier, 6825! Ndouka and Kouti Country, Télé, in marshes, Chevalier, 8256 bis!Sierra Leone Upper Guinea Rowala, 500 ft., Thomas, 1091! Makump, edge of stream, Glanville, 237!Nigeria Upper Guinea Nupe, in swamps, Barter, 1348!Cameroons Upper Guinea Buar, 3300 ft., Mildbraed, 9478!
Notes
Robyns (I.e. 202) also cites specimens from various parts of western and northern Belgian Congo.

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