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Enneapogon abyssinicus

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Identification
Enneapogon abyssinicus (Hochst.) Rendle [family POACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Data not digitized, Pappophorum abyssinicum Hochst. [family POACEAE ] Verified by Data not digitized,
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  • Pappophorum abyssinicum
  • Enneapogon abyssinicus

Flora

Entry for ENNEAPOGON cenchroïdes (Roem. & Schult.) C. E. Hubbard [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, Part (Part 1), page 1, (1970) Author: W. D. Clayton
Names
ENNEAPOGON cenchroïdes (Roem. & Schult.) C. E. Hubbard [family POACEAE], in K.B. 1934: 119 (1934); Ann. list grasses Ug.: 17 (1947); F.P.S. 3: 448 (1956); R.K.G.: 16 (1958); I.G.U.: 28 (1960); G.T.: 21 (1965). Type: South Africa, near Vaal R. [Kaigerieb], Lichtenstein (B, holo.!)
Pappophorum cenchroïdes Roem. & Schult. [family POACEAE], Syst. Veg. 2: 616 (1817)
Enneapogon mollis Lehm. [family POACEAE], Nov. Stirp. Pugill. 3: 40 (1831). Type: South Africa, Cape Province, Beaufort, Ecklon (whereabouts uncertain, not B)
Pappophorum molle (Lehm.) Kunth [family POACEAE], Enum. Pl. 1: 255 (1833)
Pappophorum abyssinicum Hochst. [family POACEAE], in Flora 38: 202 (1855). Type: Ethiopia, Tigre, Tacazze valley, Schimper 1451 in Herb. Buchinger (P, iso.!)
Enneapogon abyssinicus (Hochst.) Rendle [family POACEAE], Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw. 2: 229 (1899)
Information
Tufted robust annual often assuming a perennial appearance; culms wiry below, up to 1 m. high, usually shortly hairy all over. Leaf-blades up to 25 cm. long and 7 mm. wide, involute or flat. Inflorescence a contracted or spike-like panicle up to 16 cm. long. Lower glume 3–4 mm. long, 5–7-nerved; upper glume 3.5–5.5 mm. long, 3-nerved; lowest lemma 1.5–2 mm. long, its awns 2.5–5 mm. long and densely ciliate for much of their length; second lemma smaller, usually ♂; third lemma 0.7–2 mm. long, including the awns which are reduced to a small tuft; anthers 1–1.8 mm. long. Fig. 55/1–8.
Range
DISTR. U1; K1, 2, 4, 6, 7; T1–3, 7 from the Sudan Republic southwards to the Cape and through Arabia to India
Altitude range
450–2000 m.
Distribution
KENYA Northern Frontier Province Furroli, 14 Sept. 1952, Gillett 13852!KENYA Turkana District Oropoi valley, June-July 1930, Liebenberg 1762!KENYA Masai District SE. shore of Lake Magadi, 14 Mar. 1954, Clayton 61!TANGANYIKA Musoma District Banagi, Mugungu [Mgungu] R., 31 May 1961, Greenway 10345!TANGANYIKA Mbulu District Lake Manyara National Park, Msasa, 19 Feb. 1964, Greenway & Kanuri 11202!TANGANYIKA Pare District S. Pare Mts., Mamba track, 17 June 1942, Greenway 6471!UGANDA Karamoja District near R. Apule, 29 Oct. 1939, A. S. Thomas 3098! & Moroto, Lokitoyala, Aug. 1954, J. Wilson 12!
Distribution (external)
Ascension I
Notes
E. cenchroïdes is reported by collectors to be a robust annual, although in herbarium specimens it may often have the appearance of a perennial. It can usually be distinguished by its long, fairly broad leaf-blades.

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