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Ehrharta longiflora

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Identification
Ehrharta longiflora Sm. [family POACEAE ] (stored under name);
Related name
  • Ehrharta calycina
  • Ehrharta eckloniana
  • Ehrharta aristata
  • Ehrharta longiflora
  • Ehrharta undulata

Flora

Entry for EHRHARTA longiflora Sm. [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 longiflora Sm. [family POACEAE], Pl. Ic. Ined. t. 32;—Thunb. Prodr. 192; Fl. Cap. ed. Schult. i. 336; Sw. in Trans. Linn. Soc. vi. 56, t. 4, fig. 7; Schrad. in Schult. f. Syst. vii. 1377; Kunth, Enum. i. 14; Trin. Phalar. 14; Nees, Fl. Afr. Austr. 219; Steud. Syn. Pl. Glum. i. 5; Durand & Schinz, Consp. Fl. Afr. v. 792.
EHRHARTA longiflora Nees var. eckloniana [family POACEAE], l.c. 220.
EHRHARTA longiflora Nees var. urvilleana [family POACEAE], l.c. 220.
EHRHARTA longiflora Nees var. longiseta [family POACEAE], l.c. 220.
EHRHARTA Banksii J. F. Gmel. [family POACEAE], Syst. 549 (excl. ic. cit.).
EHRHARTA aristata Thunb. [family POACEAE], Prodr. 66.
EHRHARTA urvilleana Kunth [family POACEAE], Rév. Gram. i. 9, 189, t. 6; Brongn. in Duperr. Voy. Coq. Bot. t. 24; Kunth, Enum. i. 14.
EHRHARTA eckloniana Schrad. [family POACEAE], in Schult. f. l.c. 1376; Nees in Linnæa, vii. 338; Kunth, Enum. i. 14; Steud. l.c. 6; Durand & Schinz, l.c. 791.
EHRHARTA longiseta Schrad. [family POACEAE], in Goett. Gel. Anz. iii. (1821) 2078, and in Schult. f. l.c. 1377; Kunth, Enum. i. 15.
EHRHARTA longifolia Durand & Schinz [family POACEAE], l.c. 792 (partly, not Schrad.).
EHRHARTA avenacea Willd. ex Schult. f. [family POACEAE], l.c. 1378 (from the description).
Information
culms geniculate-ascending or erect, usually simple, weak, 1–2 ft. long, glabrous, smooth, 3–4-noded, uppermost internode up to 9 in. long; sheaths rather loose, glabrous, smooth; ligules truncate, up to 1 lin. long; blades linear from a clasping fimbriate base, 3–6 in. by 1/2–5 lin., flaccid, scaberulous or smooth, usually softly hairy or glabrescent, margins wavy, scabrid; panicle narrow, up to 1/2 ft. long, flaccid, loose; rhachis smooth, branches in distant semi-whorls, very unequal, the longest up to 2 in., simple or sparingly branched, filiform to capillary, flexuous, glabrous below, or like the capillary pedicels spreadingly hairy or scabrid; pedicels up to 4 lin. long; spikelets oblong-lanceolate, more or less secund, often nodding, 3 1/2 lin. long; lower glume lanceolate, acuminate, 1–1 1/4 lin., 5-nerved; upper glume oblong, cuspidate, 1 3/4–2 lin. long, 7-nerved; empty valves lanceolate-oblong, produced into a beak or a scabrid subulate awn of varying length (1–5 lin.), 7-nerved, the lower 3 lin. long, with a minute beard in front and 2 small tufts of hairs at the back of the base, scabrid above and often transversely rugose below, the upper up to 3 1/2 lin. long, with a pair of inconspicuous bearded ridges at the base; fertile valve oblong, subacute, 2 1/2–2 3/4 lin. long, 7-nerved, glabrous, not appendaged; lodicules ciliate; stamens 6; anthers 3/4 lin. long; stigmas brush-like. null
Range
Introduced into St. Helena and Bourbon.
Distribution
COAST REGION Clanwilliam Div.; near Clanwilliam, 350 ft., Schlechter, 8591! Brak Fontein and by the Olifants River, in sand, Drège. Cape Div.; foot of Table and Devils Mountains, in shady places, Ecklon, Pappe 13! near Oatlands Point, Wolley Dod, 2958! Piers Road, Wynberg, Wolley Dod, 3230! precipices by the second waterfall on Devils Peak, Wolley Dod, 3455! near Klein Constantia, Wolley Dod, 2069! near Cape Town, Alexander! Tulbagh Div.; Tulbagh Waterfall, Ecklon. Swellendam Div.; Zonder Einde River, Zeyher! Riversdale Div.; Gauritz River, Ecklon. Mossel Bay Div.; Attaquas Kloof, Gill!SOUTH AFRICA without precise locality, Thunberg!

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