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Echinochloa haploclada

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Identification
Echinochloa haploclada (Stapf) Stapf [family GRAMINEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Data not digitized, Echinochloa haploclada (Stapf) Stapf [family GRAMINEAE ] Verified by Data not digitized,
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Flora

Entry for ECHINOCHLOA haploclada (Stapf) Stapf [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
ECHINOCHLOA haploclada (Stapf) Stapf [family POACEAE], (1920).
ECHINOCHLOA haploclada Chiov. var. stenostachya [family POACEAE], Fl. Somala 2: 445 (1932);. type: S3, Kismayu, Balladelli 269 (K iso.).
Information
Rhizomatous perennial; stems up to 300 cm high, often wiry; ligule absent or a line of hairs. Inflorescence lanceolate (rarely linear), 7–25 cm long; racemes 1–5 cm long, densely crowded with appressed spikelets. Spikelets elliptic to subglobose, small, 1.5–2.5(–3) mm long, ± hispid; lower floret male, acute or with a short curved awn up to 5 mm long; upper lemma 1.5–2.3 mm long.
Range
N1; C1; S1–3 Sudan and Ethiopia southwards to Zimbabwe.
Altitude range
20–670 m.
Distribution
SOMALIA Hemming 2035; Kuchar 17829; Beckett 1482; Kuchar 17493; Kazmi 5250.
Notes
Dooraar, gar-garo, sabool (Som.).

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