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Ehrharta erecta

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Identification
Ehrharta erecta Lam. [family GRAMINEAE/POACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by HBG-formal name change, 2011 Ehrharta panicea Sm. [family GRAMINEAE/POACEAE ] Verified by Not on sheet,
Related name
  • Ehrharta delicatula
  • Ehrharta panicea
  • Ehrharta paniciformis
  • Ehrharta erecta
  • Ehrharta abyssinica

Flora

Entry for EHRHARTA erecta Lam. [family POACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Capensis
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Capensis, Vol 7, page 310, (1900) Author: (By O. STAPF.)
Names
EHRHARTA erecta Lam. [family POACEAE], Encyc. ii. 347;—Lam. Illustr. ii. 397, t. 263, fig. 1, a-e.
EHRHARTA panicea Sm. [family POACEAE], Pl. Ic. Ined. t. 9; Thunb. Prodr. 188; Fl. Cap. ed. Schult. i. 335; Sw. in Trans. Linn. Soc. vi. 47, t. 3, fig. 2; Beauv. Agrost. 61, t. 12, fig. 2; Schrad. in Schult. f. Syst. vii. 1370; Trin. Phalar. 18; Nees, Fl. Afr. Austr. 225; Steud. Syn. Pl. Glum. i. 6; Durand & Schinz, Consp. Fl. Afr. v. 793.
EHRHARTA paniciformis Nees ex Trin. [family POACEAE], Phalar. 18; Fl. Afr. Austr. 226. (excl. var. β); Steud. l.c. 6; Durand & Schinz, l.c. 793.
Panicum deflexum Guss. [family POACEAE], in Ten. Fl. Nap. v. 320.
Trochera panicea H. Baill. [family POACEAE], Hist. Pl. xii. 171, fig. 313, 314.
Information
perennial; culms tufted, geniculate-ascending from a procumbent often copiously branched base, slender, weak or wiry below, up to 2 ft. long, glabrous, very rarely reversedly pubescent below the nodes, smooth, 5–6-noded; sheaths tight, the lowest ultimately slipping from the culm, glabrous, rarely finely hairy, smooth; ligules obtuse or truncate, up to 3 lin. long; blades linear from a clasping often fimbriate base, gradually tapering, 2–6 in. by 1 1/2–5 lin., flat, flaccid, glabrous, rarely hairy, smooth or subscaberulous, margins often wavy, scabrid or ciliate; panicle erect or nodding, narrow, 2–8 in. long, loose, sometimes reduced to a raceme; branches distant, the lowest 2–3-nate, very unequal, the longest up to 1–3 in., erect or spreading, simple or sparingly branched, filiform to almost capillary, flexuous, glabrous or scaberulous above; pedicels capillary, scaberulous to puberulous, up to 4 lin. or more long; spikelets light green, oblong, 1 1/4–2 lin., very rarely 2 1/2 lin. long; glumes ovate, obtuse or apiculate, 5-nerved, the lowest 5/8–1 lin., the upper 1–1 1/4 lin. long; empty valves oblong, obtuse or truncate, smooth and shiny or scaberulous, transversely rugose, faintly 5-nerved, the lower 1 1/4–1 1/2 lin., the upper longer by 1/6– 1/4, with a pair of obscure beardless ridges at the base; fertile valve oblong, obtuse to subacute, 1 1/4–1 3/4 lin. long, glabrous, smooth, obscurely 5–7-nerved; lodicules usually glabrous; stamens 6; anthers 1/2– 5/8 lin. long; stigmas brush-like; grain 1 lin. long. null
Range
In a slightly different form also in tropical East Africa as far as Abyssinia, and (probably introduced) in tropical Arabia, the Mascarene Islands, and India.
Distribution
CENTRAL REGION Prince Albert Div.; Great Zwart Bergen, near Klaar-stroom, 2000–3000 ft., Drège! Somerset Div.; between the Zuurberg Range and Klein Bruintjes River, by shady brooks, 2000–3000 ft., Drège! Bosch Berg, Burchell, 3244! Graaff Reinet Div.; Klein Visch River, Ecklon (?); Albert Div.; Stormberg Range, in gorges, 5000–6000 ft., Drège! Aliwal North Div.; on the Witte Bergen, Drège.COAST REGION Cape Div.; Table Mountain, as a weed on roadsides and in gardens, Ecklon, 918! Mac Gillivray, 398! Kloof between the Lions Head and Table Mountain, Burchell, 256! Wynberg Park, Wolley Dod, 1886! Wynberg, Wilms, 3857! in ditches in Sand Road, Claremont, Wolley Dod, 2384! Paarl Div.; Paarl Mountains, among rocks, 2000–3000 ft., Drège, 522! Worcester Div.; hills on the Hex River, Drège. Swellendam Div.; near Grootvaders Bosch, Zeyher, 4515! Riversdale Div.; between Kochmans Kloof and Gauritz River, Ecklon. Mossel Bay Div.; dry hills on the eastern side of Gauritz River, Burchell, 6453/2! George Div.; George, in forests, Burchell, 6049! Uitenhage Div.; under bushes by the Zwartkops River, Ecklon & Zeyher, 186! Addo, Ecklon. Port Elizabeth Div.; near Port Elizabeth, on sand hills, E.S.C.A. Herb., 190! Alexandria Div.; Enon, in shady woods, 1500–2000 ft., Drège. Komgha Div.; near Komgha, Flanagan, 911! King Williamstown Div.; in woods by the Kachu (Yellowwood) River, 2000 ft., Drège!EASTERN REGION Tembuland; Bazeia, Baur, 411! Var. β, Natal; Clairmont, 50 ft., Wood, 7260! on the Drakens Bergen, near Newcastle, Buchanan, 177! Umsinga and base of Biggars Berg, Buchanan, 94! Riet Vlei, Buchanan, 287!KALAHARI REGION Orange Free State; Bloemfontein, Rehmann, 3837!

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