Eragrostis ciliaris(L.) R.Br. [family POACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Troupin G., 1955
Related name
Eragrostis cylindrica
Eragrostis arabica
Eragrostis viscosa
Poa unrecorded
Eragrostis ciliaris
Unknown
Eragrostis amabilis
Eragrostis plumosa
Eragrostis pulchella
Poa ciliaris
Eragrostis riparium
Eragrostis tenella
Eragrostis ciliata
Flora
Entry for ERAGROSTIS ciliaris (L.) R. Br. [family POACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Somalia
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Somalia, Vol 4, (1995) Author: by T. A. Cope [updated by M. Thulin 2008]
Names
ERAGROSTIS ciliaris(L.) R. Br. [family POACEAE], (1818).
ERAGROSTIS ciliaris(Jaub. & Spach) Asch. & Schweinf. var. arabica [family POACEAE], Ill. Fl. Égypte 2: 172 (1887).
Information
Annual up to 50 cm high; leaves flat. Panicle 1–12.5 cm long, contracted, spike-like or lobed and interrupted. Spikelets oblong-elliptic to ovate, 2–3.5 mm long, 6- to 12-flowered, the florets loose and divergent, covered by the spreading palea-hairs, disarticulating between the florets, the rhachilla fragile; glumes equal, lanceolate, 0.9–1 mm long; lemmas oblong in profile, thinly membranous, 0.9–1.5 mm long, with a few pectinate hairs on the lower part of the keel at least in the upper lemmas, broadly obtuse, mucronate; palea-keels pectinate-ciliate with tubercle-based hairs 0.4–0.8 mm long; anthers 2, 0.1–0.2 mm long.
