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Eragrostis arenicola

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Name

Identification
Eragrostis tenella Stapf [family POACEAE ] Eragrostis arenicola C.E.Hubb. [family POACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Launert,E.,
Related name
  • Eragrostis arenicola
  • Eragrostis ciliaris
  • Eragrostis tenella
Common name
  • kambura fage = covers the field (Taylor) (NIGERIA, HAUSA), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 2

Flora

Entry for ERAGROSTIS arenicola 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 2), page 177, (1974) Author: W. D. CLAYTON, S. M. PHILLIPS AND S. A. RENVOIZE
Names
ERAGROSTIS arenicola C. E. Hubbard [family POACEAE], in K.B. 4: 345 (1949); F.P.S. 3: 452 (1956); Ann. list Nyasaland grasses: 38 (1958); G.T.: 36 (1965); Clayton in F.W.T.A., ed. 2, 3: 386 (1972). Type: Khodesia, Salisbury, Eyles 2190 (K, holo.!)
ERAGROSTIS tenella Rendle var. compacta [family POACEAE], in Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw. 2: 233 (1899). Type: Angola, Huila, Lopollo, Welwitsch 2635 (BM, holo.!, K, iso.!)
Information
Tufted annual; culms 15–35 cm. high, erect or ascending, somewhat wiry. Leaf-blades flat, up to 10 cm. long and 4 mm. wide. Panicle narrowly lanceolate, 6–18 cm. long, contracted but scarcely spiciform, the branches with or without oblong glands (but not sticky). Spikelets 5–14-flowered, narrowly oblong to ovate, 2–4.5 mm. long, purplish, neither fluffy nor grouped into clusters, breaking up from the apex, the rhachilla fragile; glumes narrowly ovate, 1–1.5 mm. long, acute; lemmas oblong-elliptic, 1–1.5 mm. long, smooth or scaberulous, broadly obtuse, ± obscurely mucronate; palea-keels ciliate, the hairs 0.4–0.5 mm. long, a little more than the width of the adjacent lemma; anthers 3, 0.3–0.4 mm. long. Caryopsis ellipsoid, 0.5 mm. long.
Range
DISTR. T4, 6–8 throughout tropical Africa, but mainly in the south
Altitude range
900–1700 m.
Distribution
TANZANIA Ufipa District Muse B., 14 June 1956, Robinson 1653! & Lake Kwela, 4 July 1950, Bullock 2965 !TANZANIA Songea District R. Luhira near Mshangano fishponds, 25 Apr. 1956, Milne-Redhead & Taylor 9817 !
Notes
E. arenicola is at the centre of a cluster of closely related species, whose main differences are listed below: E. caespitose. Very like E. arenicola, but perennial. E. ciliaris. Denser spiciform panicle with fluffy spikelets; hairs on lemma-keel; 2 stamens. E. tenella. Open spreading panicle; spikelet-scales smaller. E. aetulifera. Acuminate glumes and truncate, usually mucronate, lemmas.

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