Compilation
Elionurus glaber

6 Images see all

Previous
Next

Name

Identification
Elionurus glaber unrecorded [family POACEAE ] Elionurus muticus (Spreng.) Kuntze [family POACEAE ] (stored under name);
Related name
  • Elionurus glaber
  • Elionurus muticus

Flora

Entry for ELIONURUS muticus (Spreng.) Kuntze [family POACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical East Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of Tropical East Africa, page 451, (1982) Author: W. D. CLAYTON and S.A. RENVOIZE
Names
ELIONURUS muticus (Spreng.) Kuntze [family POACEAE], Rev. Gen. Pl. 3: 350 (1898). Type: Uruguay, Montevideo, Sello (whereabouts unknown, not B)
Lycurus muticus Spreng. [family POACEAE], Syst. Nat. 4, cur. post.: 32 (1827)
Elionurus argenteus Nees [family POACEAE], FI. Afr. Austr. 1: 95 (1841); F.T.A. 9: 70 (1917); Fl. Agrost. Congo Belge 1: 77 (1929); Ann. list grasses Ug.: 17 (1947); R.K.G.: 62 (1958); Ann. list Nyasaland grasses: 38 (1958); I.G.U.: 28 (1960); G.T.: 112 (1965); Clayton in F.W.T.A., ed. 2, 3: 505 (1972). Types: South Africa, Witbergen, Drège (K, isosyn.!) and several other syntypes
Elionurus thimiodorus Nees [family POACEAE], Fl. Afr. Austr. 1: 95 (1841). Type: South Africa, Katrivierberg, Ecklon (K, iso.!)
Andropogon caespitosus A. Rich. [family POACEAE], Tent. Fl. Abyss. 2: 451 (1851). Type: Ethiopia, Djeladjeranne [Tchélatchékanné], Quartin Dillon (P, holo.!)
Andropogon thimiodorus (Nees) Steud. [family POACEAE], Syn. Pl. Glum. 1: 365 (1854)
Elionurus argenteus (A. Rich.) Hack. var. caespitosus [family POACEAE], in DC., Monogr. Phan. 6: 340 (1889)
Elionurus argenteus (Nees) Stapf var. thimiodorus [family POACEAE], in Fl. Cap. 7: 333 (1898)
Elionurus chevalieri Stapf [family POACEAE], in Mém. Soc. Bot. Fr. 8: 100 (1908). Types: Guinée, Sangorola, Chevalier 341 (K, syn.!) & Central African Republic, Ndellé, Chevalier 7713 (P, syn.)
Elionurus gobariensis Vanderyst [family POACEAE], in Bull. Agric. Congo Belge 13: 326 (1922). Type: Zaire, Mulangi, Vanderyst 6358 bis (K, iso.!)
Elionurus glaber Phillips [family POACEAE], in Bothalia 3: 261 (1937). Type: South Africa, Pretoria, Liebenberg 3241 (PRE, holo.)
Elionurus glaber Phillips var. villosus [family POACEAE], in Bothalia 3: 261 (1937). Types: South Africa, Johannesburg Moss 6852 (K, isosyn.!) and many other syntypes
Elionurus pretoriensis Phillips [family POACEAE], in Bothalia 3: 262 (1937). Type: South Africa, Pretoria, Mogg in Nat. Herb. 20576 (K, iso.!)
Information
Densely tufted perennial; culms 15–100 cm. high. Leaf-blades filiform, involute, 5–30 cm. long, 1–2 mm. wide, mostly basal and compacted into a dense tussock, ± aromatic, filiform to subulate at the tip; sheaths papery, sometimes becoming fibrous or horny, occasionally tomentose. Racemes 4–14 cm. long, terminal on the culm or sometimes with 1–2 axillary racemes, silvery to grey or purple; internodes villous. Sessile spikelet lanceolate; callus broadly cuneate, 1–1.5 mm. long; lower glume 4–8 mm. long, villous on the back, entire or divided at the tip into 2 teeth up to 7 mm. long. Pedicelled spikelet lanceolate, 4–7 mm. long, pubescent to villous, acuminate or with a short awn-point. Fig. 195.
Range
DISTR. U1–4; K3–6; T1, 2, 4, 5, 7, 8 tropical and South Africa; tropical and subtropical America
Altitude range
1400–2800 m.
Distribution
KENYA Trans-Nzoia District Kitale, 2 Sept. 1952, Bogdan 3574!KENYA Fort Hall District W. of the Blue Posts Hotel, 3 June 1967, Faden 67/365!KENYA Kiambu District 5 km. WSW. of Thika, 24 Jan. 1970, Bjørnstad 421!TANZANIA Ufipa District Mmemya, 18 Sept. 1958, Vesey-FitzGerald 1884!TANZANIA Iringa District Sao Hill, 5 Nov. 1941, Greenway 6408!TANZANIA Songea District Lupembe Hill, 11 Jan. 1956, Milne-Redhead & Taylor 8195!UGANDA Acholi District Kitgum, 10 Apr. 1945, Greenway &Hummel 7334!UGANDA Ankole District Nyabushozi, 16 Sept. 1941, A.S. Thomas 3987!UGANDA Mbale District near Elgon, 12 Feb. 1928, Snowden 1260!
Distribution (external)
Yemen
Notes
The species is rather variable, with many synonyms described from Africa, and as many more from America. A taller grass with cauline leaves and axillary racemes is found in W. Africa and parts of tropical America; it is best treated as a distinct species E. ciliaris Kunth (E. pobeguinii Stapf).

Related Materials