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Eragrostis basilepis

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Identification
Isotype of Eragrostis basilepis Pilg. [family POACEAE ] Verified by Not on sheet, Eragrostis caespitosa Chiov. [family POACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on sheet,
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Flora

Entry for ERAGROSTIS caespitosa Chiov. [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 caespitosa Chiov. [family POACEAE], in Ann. Bot. Roma 13: 373 (1915); R.K.G.: 17 (1958); I.G.U.: 29 (1960); G.T.: 37 (1965). Type: Somali Republic (S.), Mallablei, Paoli 756 (FI, holo.!)
ERAGROSTIS fasciculata Peter [family POACEAE], F.D.O.-A. 1, Anh.: 101 (1930). Type: Tanzania, Pare District, Lembeni to Kaili Mt., Peter 41625 (B, holo. †)
ERAGROSTIS fasciculata Peter var. stenophylla [family POACEAE], F.D.O.-A. 1, Anh.: 102, fig. 59/1 (1930). Type: Tanzania, Dar es Salaam, Peter 31281 (K, iso.!)
ERAGROSTIS basilepis Pilg. [family POACEAE], in N.B.G.B. 15: 705 (1942). Type: Tanzania, Lushoto District, Kivingo, Greenway 2000 (B, holo., K, iso.!)
Information
Tufted perennial, the base invested with hard yellow glabrous to silky tomentose scales; culms 15–50 cm. high, slender, wiry, erect or ascending. Leaf-blades flat, 3–12 cm. long, 2–4 mm. wide; sheaths glabrous to pilose. Panicle narrowly oblong, 3–13 cm. long, fairly dense. Spikelets 4–15-flowered, oblong, 2.5–5.5 mm. long, breaking up from the apex, the rhachilla fragile; glumes lanceolate, subequal, 1–2 mm. long; lemmas oblong-elliptic, 1.3–1.7 mm. long, smooth or scaberulous, with or without a few very short bristles on the keel, broadly obtuse and shortly mucronate; palea ciliate on the keels, the hairs 0.4–0.7 mm. long; anthers 3, 0.8 mm. long. Caryopsis ellipsoid, 0.5–0.6 mm. long.
Range
DISTR. U1; K1, 2, 4, 7; T1–3, 5, 6
Altitude range
300–1600 m.
Distribution
KENYA Northern Frontier Province Dandu, 14 May 1952, Gillett 13188 !KENYA Machakos District 40 km. SE. of Machakos, 8 Jan. 1954, Bogdan 3895 !KENYA Teita District Tsavo National Park East, 34 km. from Voi Gate to Sobo road, 20 Dec. 1966, Greenway & Kanuri 12806 !TANZANIA Lushoto District Mkomazi, Dindira, 29 Apr. 1967, Mwamba 54 !TANZANIA Pangani District Mkwaja, Serewa, 27 Nov. 1955, Tanner 2355!TANZANIA Kondoa District Kikore, 11 Jan. 1930, B. D. Burtt 2677 !UGANDA Karamoja District Moroto, June 1954, J. Wilson 22 ! & Moruangaberu, Aug. 1960, J. Wilson 1033 ! & Lodoketeminit, 17 July 1959, Kerfoot 1178 !
Distribution (external)
Somali Republic

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