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Eragrostis capensis

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Eragrostis capensis (Thunb.) Trin. [family POACEAE ]
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Entry for ERAGROSTIS brizoides Nees [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
ERAGROSTIS brizoides Nees [family POACEAE], in Linnæa, vii. 328;—Nees, Fl. Afr. Austr. 384; Steud. Syn. Pl. Glum. i. 270; Durand & Schinz, Consp. Fl. Afr. v. 880; Hack. in Bull. Herb. Boiss. iv. App. iii. 26.
ERAGROSTIS capensis Trin. [family POACEAE], Gram. Gen. 400, and in Mém. Acad. Pétersb. sér. 6, i. 400.
Briza capensis Thunb. [family POACEAE], Prodr. 21; Fl. Cap. i. 419; ed. Schult. 112.
Poa brizoides Linn. f. [family POACEAE], Suppl. 110; Kunth, Enum. i. 327.
Megastachya brizoides Roem. & Schult. [family POACEAE], Mant. ii. 329.
Information
perennial, compactly tufted with intravaginal innovation-shoots; culms erect or geniculate-ascending, slender, firm, from 3/4 to more than 2 ft. long, glabrous, smooth, 1–3-noded, internodes exserted, uppermost occupying from 1/2 to 4/5 the length of the culm; sheaths tight, glabrous except the bearded mouth, lowest short, crowded, persistent; ligule a fringe of minute hairs; blades narrow, linear, tapering to a fine point, 2–4 in. (rarely to 8 in.) by 1–1 1/2 lin., usually more or less convolute or involute and rigid, glabrous, smooth below, scaberulous above, striate; panicle linear to oblong, contracted, 2–4 in. long, erect or nodding; axis filiform, flexuous, smooth; branches solitary, filiform, angular, smooth, racemosely 6–2-spiculate; pedicels very short; spikelets crowded or sometimes more distant, ovate to ovate-oblong or suborbicular, strongly compressed, 2–6 lin. by 1 1/2–3 1/2 lin., densely 5–40-flowered, straw-coloured, usually tinged with dull purple; rhachilla persistent, rather stout, joints very short; glumes and valves similar, closely imbricate, rigidly membranous to subchartaceous, obtuse, back broad, keeled; glumes subequal, oblong in profile, 1 1/4–1 1/2 lin. long, lower 1-nerved; valves obliquely elliptic-oblong in profile, 1 1/2–1 3/4 lin long, side-nerves prominent, keel adpressedly ciliate; pales subequal to the valves, broad, keels very densely and minutely ciliolate; anthers 3/4 lin. long; grain narrowly oblong, not quite 1 lin. by 1/2 lin.; pericarp slightly swelling in water. null
Distribution
CENTRAL REGION Jansenville Div.; hills near Klein Bruintjes Hoogte, 3000 ft., Drège. Graaff Reinet Div.; mountain tops near Graaff Reinet 4500 ft., Bolus, 779! Aliwal North Div.; sandy plains at the foot of the Witte Bergen, 5000 ft., Drège.COAST REGION Clanwilliam Div.; by the Olifants River and at Brack Fontein, Ecklon. Cape Div.; near Capetown, Drège, 2! Devils Mountain, Ecklon, 959! north slopes of the Lions Head, Wolley Dod, 3575! between Capetown and Table Mountain, Burchell, 21! 919! Table Mountain, eastern slopes near Tokay, Ecklon, Tokay Plantation, Wolley Dod, 1965! Cape Flats, near Doorn Hoogte, Ecklon; near Rondebosch, Burchell, 201! Sandown Road, Wolley Dod, 2494! Dido Valley, Wolley Dod, 2826! between Groot and Klein Slang Kop, Wolley Dod, 3297! Railway between Kenilworth and Claremont, Wolley Dod, 3115! 3565! above Oatlands, Wolley Dod, 2951! Tulbagh Div.; Tulbagh Kloof, Ecklon! Paarl Div.; sandy plains near Paarl Berg, Drège. Stellen-bosch Div.; Hottentots Holland, Ecklon. Caledon Div.; near Genadendal, Drège. Swellendam Div.; on mountain ridges along the lower part of the Zonder Einde River, Zeyher, 4562! Riversdale Div.; between Great Vals River and Zoetemelks River, Burchell, 6564! near the Zoetemelks River, Burchell, 6695! between the Gauritz River and the Great Vals River, Burchell, 6504! Uniondale Div.; between Apies River and Roode Krantz River, Burchell, 4964! Bathurst Div.; between Blue Krantz and Kaffir Drift Military Post, Burchell, 3708! near Port Alfred, Hutton, 44a! Port Elizabeth Div.; at Krakakamma, Burchell, 4537! Humansdorp Div.; near Kromme River, Krauss, 365! Uitenhage Div.; by the Zwartkops River, Ecklon & Zeyher! between the Coega River and Sunday River, Ecklon; Olifantshoek Mountain by the Bushman River, Ecklon; among shrubs in the Vanstaadens Berg Range, Ecklon & Zeyher, 287! Albany Div.; between Bushman River and Karega River, Ecklon; and without precise locality, MacOwan, 153! Alexandria Div.; hills near Addo, Ecklon! Bathurst Div.; Port Alfred, 44a! Zwart Hoogte, Burke! Stocken-strom Div.; Winterberg Mountains, near Philipton, Ecklon. Cathcart Div.; Glencairn, 5000 ft., Galpin, 2419a!EASTERN REGION Transkei; between Gekau (Geua or Geuu) River and Bashee River, 1000–2000 ft., Drège! Tembuland; near Bazeia, Baur, 299! 300! Natal; Riet Vlei, 4000–5000 ft., Buchanan, 251! Durban Flats, Buchanan, 27! near Durban, Williamson, 59! Coastland, Sutherland! throughout Natal, Krauss, 365! Inanda, Wood, 993! Mooi River, Wood, 4068! Berea, Wood, 5934! Van Reenens Pass, Wood, 7222! 7245, and without precise locality, Buchanan, 102! 252! Plant, 62!KALAHARI REGION Orange Free State; without precise locality, Cooper, 913! 3337! Transvaal; Klip Drift, by the Vaal River, Nelson, 78*! Spitzkop Goldmine, Wilms, 1720a! Apies Poort, Rehmann, 4042!SOUTH AFRICA without precise locality, Bergius! Zeyher, 1832! 1833!

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