Eragrostis articulataDe Wild. [family POACEAE ] Verified by Not on sheet, Eragrostis cilianensisLink ex Lutati [family POACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on sheet,
Related name
Briza eragrostis
Eragrostis pappii
Eragrostis chalcantha
Eragrostis palloides
Eragrostis schweinfurthiana
Poa eragrostis
Poa multiflora
Eragrostis orientalis
Eragrostis megastachya
Eragrostis major
Eragrostis cilianensis
Eragrostis kiwuensis
Eragrostis poaeoides
Poa pallescens
Eragrostis multiflora
Poa polymorpha
Poa uniolide
Poa cachectica
Eragrostis articulata
Flora
Entry for ERAGROSTIS cilianensis (All.) Vignolo ex Janch. [family POACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Somalia
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Somalia, Vol 4, (1995) Author: by T. A. Cope [updated by M. Thulin 2008]
Names
ERAGROSTIS cilianensis(All.) Vignolo ex Janch. [family POACEAE], (1907). Fig. 94.
ERAGROSTIS megastachya(Koeler) Link [family POACEAE], (1827).
Information
Annual up to 75 cm high; leaves flat or inrolled, sometimes with crateriform glands along the margins. Panicle lanceolate to narrowly elliptic, 5–15(–20) cm long, usually ± contracted with short pedicels, occasionally very contracted to a dense ovoid or cylindrical head, the branches and pedicels often bearing crateriform glands. Spikelets oblong-ovate (linear when many-flowered), 4.5–15(–20) mm long, 8- to 30(–45)-flowered, shedding their lemmas from below upwards, the paleas persistent on the tough rhachilla, often the rhachilla fragile in the upper part, rarely breaking away entire soon after the lemmas have begun to fall; glumes subequal, lanceolate, 1.5–2.7 mm long, acute, often with crateriform glands along the nerve; lemmas elliptic-ovate in profile, papery, 2–2.8 mm long, scaberulous, subacute to obtuse; palea-keels scabrid; anthers 3, 0.3–0.5 mm long. Grain usually subrotund, 0.4–0.6 mm in diam.
Range
N1–3; C1, 2; S1–3 tropical and warm temperate Old World.
