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Ehrharta ovata

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Identification
Ehrharta ovata Nees [family POACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by [Wikström, J.E.], Ehrharta aristata Thunb. [family POACEAE ] Verified by [Thunberg, C.P.], Aira capensis Steud. [family POACEAE ] Verified by Not on sheet, Ehrharta aristata Thunb. [family POACEAE ] Verified by [Casström, S.N.], Ehrharta bulbosa Sm. [family POACEAE ] Verified by [Casström, S.N.], Trochera striata Rich. [family POACEAE ] Verified by [Casström, S.N.], Ehrharta calycina Sm. [family POACEAE ] Verified by Not on sheet,
Related name
  • Ehrharta calycina
  • Ehrharta bulbosa
  • Ehrharta aristata
  • Aira capensis
  • Trochera striata
  • Ehrharta ovata

Flora

Entry for EHRHARTA calycina 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 calycina Sm. [family POACEAE], Pl. Ic. Ined. t. 33;—Thunb. Prodr. 188; Fl. Cap. ed. Schult. i. 335; Sw. in Trans. Linn. Soc. vi. 53, t. 4, fig. 5; Schrad. in Schult. f. Syst. vii. 1372; Kunth, Enum. Pl. i. 13; Nees in Linnæa, vii. 336; Trin. Phalar. 24; Steud. Syn. Pl. Glum. i. 7; Durand & Schinz, Consp. Fl. Afr. v. 791.
EHRHARTA geniculata Thunb. [family POACEAE], Prodr. 192; Fl. Cap. ed. Schult. 336; Sw. l.c. 55, t. 4, fig. 6; Schrad. l.c., and in Schult. f. l.c. 1373; Kunth, l.c.; Steud. l.c.; Durand & Schinz, l.c. 792.
EHRHARTA paniculata Poir. [family POACEAE], Encyc. Suppl. ii. 542 (by error).
EHRHARTA adscendens Schrad. [family POACEAE], l.c.
EHRHARTA laxiflora Schrad. [family POACEAE], l.c. 2078, and in Schult. f. l.c. 1373; Kunth, l.c.; Steud. l.c.; Durand & Schinz, l.c. 792.
EHRHARTA auriculata Steud. [family POACEAE], in Flora, 1829, 491.
EHRHARTA ovata Nees [family POACEAE], in Linnæa, vii. 336; Fl. Afr. Austr. 203; Kunth, l.c.; Steud. Syn. Pl. Glum. i. 7; Durand & Schinz, l.c. 793.
EHRHARTA undulata Nees ex Trin. [family POACEAE], Phalar. 24; Nees, Fl. Afr. Austr. 208.
Aira capensis Linn. f. [family POACEAE], Suppl. 108.
Melica geniculata Thunb. [family POACEAE], Prodr. 21.
Melica festucoides Lichtenst. ex Trin. [family POACEAE], Phalar. 24.
Trochera calycina Beauv. [family POACEAE], Agrost. 62, t. 12, fig. 4.
Information
perennial, tufted, rarely stoloniferous; culms usually geniculate, slender, simple or scantily branched, 1–2 ft. long, smooth, glabrous, very rarely minutely villous below, 4–6-noded; sheaths glabrous, rarely reversedly pubescent, rather tight; ligules very short, truncate, denticulate, ciliate; blades linear from a clasping, often denticulate and ciliate base, long and gradually tapering or shortly acute, rarely subobtuse, 1–4 in. by 1–3 lin., flaccid or rigid, flat or involute to setaceous, glaucous, scaberulous, glabrous or hairy, margins sometimes wavy, scabrid; panicle very narrow, nodding, 3–9 in. long, subsecund; rhachis flexuous, smooth; branches in distant semiwhorls, very unequal, the longest rarely more than 1 in. long, simple or scantily branched, spreading or erect, subcapillary, flexuous, smooth; spikelets pallid, rarely purplish, oblong, 2 1/2–3 lin. long; glumes subequal, narrow-oblong, acute or subobtuse, 7-nerved; empty valves unequal, loosely villous, the lower very narrow, linear-oblong, acute, as long as the lower glume or shorter, sub-5-nerved, shortly bearded at the base in front, the upper oblong, obtuse, mucronate (mucro up to 3/4 lin. long), as long as the upper glume or longer, 5-nerved, with 2 large semilunar appendages at the base, beardless; fertile valve oblong, obtuse, slightly shorter than the upper empty valve, glabrous or scantily hairy, obscurely 5–7-nerved; lodicules glabrous; stamens 6; anthers 1 1/2 lin. long; stigmas brush-like; grain 1 1/2 lin. long. null
Distribution
CENTRAL REGION Prince Albert Div.; Gamka River, Mund & Maire! Var. β: Graaff Reinet Div.; Graaff Reinet, 2900–4300 ft., Bolus, 676! 706! Fraserburg Div.; between Karee River and Klein Quaggas Fontein, Burchell, 1414! Carnarvon Div.; Klip Fontein, Burchell, 1526!COAST REGION Vanrhynsdorp Div.; Ebenezer, by the Olifants River, Drège. Clanwilliam Div.; Wupperthal, 1500–2000 ft., Drège. Malmesbury Div.; Riebeks Kasteel, Drège. Cape Div.; Lion Mountain, Ecklon, 909! Kloof between the Lions Head and Table Mountain, Burchell, 256! common on rocks of Lions Head, Wolley Dod, 3528! (a state with setaceous leaves); saddle of Lions Head, Wolley Dod, 3101! Capetown, Harvey, 138! 139! 140! Cape Flats at Doorn Hoogte, Zeyher, 1845! near Sea Point, MacOwan, Herb. Aust. Afr., 1792! Simons Bay, Wright, 192! by Raapenberg Vley, Wolley Dod, 2752! common all over Simons Town Hill, Wolley Dod, 3005! Paarl Div.; Paarl, 500–1000 ft., Drège. Tulbagh Div.; Tulbagh Waterfall, Drège. Worcester Div.; Hex River Valley, 1500 ft., Drège; Wolley Dod, 3715! Swellendam Div.; hills near Riet Kuil and Grootvaders Hoek, 2000–3000 ft., Zeyher, 4574! Riversdale Div.; hills near Zoetemelks River, Burchell, 6778! Mossel Bay Div.; Gauritz River, Ecklon. Uitenhage Div.; Uitenhage, Zeyher! Zwartkops River and near Addo, Ecklon. Port Elizabeth Div.; Port Elizabeth, E.S.C.A. Herb., 102! Bathurst Div.; between Blue Krantz and Kaffir Drift Military Post, Burchell, 3693! Albany Div.; near Grahamstown, MacOwan, 1284a! King Williamstown Div.; Amatola Mountains, Buchanan, 48! Var. β: Uitenhage Div.; Grass Ridge, Ecklon & Zeyher.EASTERN REGION Natal; sand-dunes near the mouth of the Umlazi River, Krauss, 414; Clairmont, 50 ft., Wood, 7261!KALAHARI REGION Basutoland; Leribe, Buchanan, 218!SOUTH AFRICA without precise locality, Thunberg! Mund & Maire!WESTERN REGION Vanrhynsdorp Div.; Karee Bergen, 1500 ft., Schlechter, 8212! Little Namaqualand; between Kous Mountain, Silver Fontein and Koper Berg, 2000–3000 ft., Drège! between Kousies River and Orange River, Ecklon. Var. β: Little Namaqualand; between Pedros Kloof and Lily Fontein, 3000–4000 ft., Drège, 2567!
Notes
A very polymorphic species of which Nees distinguishes 6 varieties and several subvarieties; but the characters used by him are so uncertain that I find it useless to retain his subdivisions.

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