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Enneapogon brachystachyus

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Identification
Enneapogon brachystachyus (Jaub. & Spach) Stapf [family POACEAE ] Enneapogon desvauxii P.Beauv. [family POACEAE ] (stored under name); Pappophorum scabrum Kunth [family POACEAE ] Pappophorum molle Kunth [family POACEAE ]
Related name
  • Enneapogon brachystachyus
  • Pappophorum molle
  • Enneapogon desvauxii
  • Pappophorum scabrum

Flora

Entry for ENNEAPOGON brachystachyus Stapf [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
ENNEAPOGON brachystachyus Stapf [family POACEAE]
Pappophorum phleoides Trin. [family POACEAE], in Spreng. Neue Entdeck. ii. 73; Gram. Gen. 91, and in Mém. Acad. Pétersb. sér. 6, i. (1831) 91; Kunth, Enum. i. 254; not Cav., nor Steud.
Pappophorum brachystachyum Jaub. & Spach [family POACEAE], in Ann. Sc. Nat. sér. 3, xiv. (1850) 365; Illustr. iv. 34; Steud. Syn. Pl. Glum. i. 200; Durand & Schinz, Consp. Fl. Afr. v. 870; Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. vii. 302.
Pappophorum figarianum Fig. & De Not. [family POACEAE], in Mem. Acc. Torin. ser. 2, xii. (1852) 254.
Pappophorum bulbosum Fig. & De Not. [family POACEAE], l.c.
Pappophorum vincentianum Schmidt [family POACEAE], Beitr. Fl. Cap. Verd. Ins. 144; Durand & Schinz, l.c. 871.
Pappophorum nanum Steud. [family POACEAE], l.c.
Pappophorum senegalense Steud. [family POACEAE], l.c. 199; Durand & Schinz, l.c. 871.
Information
perennial, often compactly cæspitose, all parts finely glandular-pubescent, rarely subglabrous; culms fascicled, geniculately ascending, 2–6 in. long, slender, often with a bulbous thickening at the base, 2–4-noded, simple or sparingly branched below, internodes mostly exserted; leaves mostly near the base; sheaths tight or those at the base of the branches loose, finely striate, nodes pubescent to villous; blades very narrow, linear, finely attenuated, 1–5 in. long, usually setaceously convolute, sometimes more or less scabrid; panicle spike-like, 1/2–1 1/2 in. by 3–5 lin., dense, light to dark grey; spikelets 1 3/4–2 lin. long; glumes subequal, oblong, obtuse or emarginate, scantily pubescent, thin, usually 5- (rarely 3- or 7-) nerved, side-nerves evanescent above; lower valve 3/4 lin. long, shortly villous; awns about 1–1 1/2 lin. long, shortly plumose to or beyond the middle; pale 1 lin. long, keels scabrid; anthers ellipsoid-oblong, 1/8– 1/6 lin. long; grain almost 1/2 lin. long. null
Range
The typical form in the Cape Verdes and in Senegambia, and from North Africa to North-West India; a variety with slightly larger anthers in Central Asia (Pappophorum boreale, Griseb.).
Distribution
KALAHARI REGION Orange Free State; between Kimberley and Bloemfontein, Buchanan, 290! Var. β: Griqualand West; Dutoits Pan, Tuck! plains at the foot of the Asbestos Mountains, Burchell, 2078!SOUTH AFRICA without precise locality, Zeyher, 1795!

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