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Eragrostis hockii

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Identification
Eragrostis hockii De Wild. [family POACEAE ] Verified by Not on sheet, Eragrostis racemosa (Thunb.) Steud. [family POACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on sheet,
Related name
  • Eragrostis racemosa
  • Eragrostis hockii

Flora

Entry for ERAGROSTIS racemosa (Thunb.) Steud. [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 racemosa (Thunb.) Steud. [family POACEAE], ,Syn. Pl. Glum. 1: 271 (1854); F.P.S. 3: 456 (1956); R.K.G.: 20 (1958); Ann. list Nyasaland grasses: 40 (1958); I.G.U.: 31(1960); G.T.: 33(1965). Type: South Africa, Cape Province, Thunberg (UPS, holo.!)
Poa racemosa Thunb. [family POACEAE], Prodr. Pl. Cap.: 21 (1794)
Eragrostis chalcantha Trin. [family POACEAE], in Mém. Acad. Sci. Pétersb., sér. 6, 1: 401 (1830); E.A. pasture plants 2: 42(1927); Ann. list grasses Ug.: 18(1947); Imp. grassl. pi. Kenya: 28 (1951). Type: South Africa, Cape Province, Drège (LE, holo.!)
Poa chalcantha (Trin.) Kunth [family POACEAE], Enum. Pl. 1: 339 (1833)
Eragrostis lasiophylla K. Schum. [family POACEAE], in P.O.A. C: 114 (1895). Types: Tanzania, Bukoba District, Ihangiro, Stuhlmann 917 (B, syn. †) & Malawi, Buchanan (B, syn. †, K, ? isosyn. !)
Eragrostis chalcantha K. Schum. var. neesii [family POACEAE], in P.O.A. C: 114 (1895). Type: South Africa, Natal (B, holo. †)
Eragrostis chalcantha Rendle var. effusa [family POACEAE], in Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw. 2: 248 (1899). Type: Angola, Pungo Andongo, Welwitsch 2760 (LISU, lecto.!)
Eragrostis boehmii Hack. [family POACEAE], in Oest. Bot. Zeit. 52: 303 (1902); Ann. list grasses Ug.: 18 (1947). Type: Tanzania, Tabora District, Igonda [Gonda], Boehm 40 (W, holo., B, iso.)
Eragrostis conradsii Pilg. [family POACEAE], in Wiss. Ergebn. Schwed. Rhod.-Kongo-Exped. 1: 212 (1915) as “ conradii ”. Type: Tanzania, Mwanza District, Ukerewe I., Neuwied, Conrads 303 (K, iso.!)
Eragrostis hockii De Wild. [family POACEAE], in B.J.B.B. 6: 64 (1919). Type: Zaire, Lubumbashi [Elisabethville], Hock (K, iso.!)
Eragrostis chalcantha Peter var. hirsuta [family POACEAE], F.D.O.-A. 1, Anh.: 111 (1930). Type: Tanzania, Morogoro District, Dakawa-Kanga, Peter 14702 (B, holo. †)
Eragrostis chalcantha Peter var. intermedia [family POACEAE], F.D.O.-A. 1, Anh.: 111 (1930). Type: Tanzania, Usambara Mts., Balangai, Peter 16055b (B, holo. †)
Information
Tufted perennial, the basal sheaths glabrous or thinly silky hairy, sometimes becoming fibrous with age; culms 9–80 cm. high. Leaf-blades mostly basal, flat or sometimes involute, 6–10(–30) cm. long, 2–5 mm. wide. Panicle narrowly ovate, 3–18 cm. long, open or ± contracted, the primary branches stiff, racemose or with short side branches bearing 2–3 spikelets, these on short stout pedicels 1–2 mm. long and spreading. Spikelets 6–16(–40)-flowered, narrowly oblong to subrotund (typically narrowly ovate), 3–10(–15) mm. long, 1.5–4.5 mm. wide, the florets imbricate with the margins of the spikelet usually entire, olive to dark green, breaking up from the base, the rhachilla persistent; glumes ovate, boat-shaped, subequal, 1.2–2.8 mm. long, scabrid on the keel; lemmas broadly ovate to subrotund, 1.7–3.8 mm. long, cartilaginous, the nerves indistinct, subacute; palea scaberulous on the keels, persistent; anthers 3, 0.7–1.3 mm. long. Caryopsis almost square, 0.5–0.7 mm. long. Fig. 62/2, p. 196.
Range
DISTR. U1–4; K1–7; T1–8 Zaire and Sudan to South Africa, and in Madagascar
Altitude range
300–3000 m. (mainly 1200–2300 m.)
Distribution
KENYA Trans-Nzoia District Kitale, 15 Oct. 1964, Leippert 5163 !KENYA Kisumu, 14 Mar. 1951, Bogdan 2929 !KENYA Masai District Aitong, 1 Apr. 1961, Glover, Gwynne & Samwett [ Paulo ] 282 !TANZANIA Musoma District Tabora, 30 Apr. 1961, Greenway 10130 !TANZANIA Ufipa District Kasunga [Kanyalakata], 13 Dec. 1958, Vesey-FitzGerald 2056!TANZANIA Songea District Matagoro Hills, 8 Feb. 1956, Milne-Redhead & Taylor 8586 !UGANDA Karamoja District Kokumongole, 28 May 1939, A.S. Thomas 2890 !UGANDA Ankole District Shema county, Kitagata, 24 May 1929, Snowden 1356!UGANDA Teso District Nariam [Narion], 13 Apr. 1956, Barker 373 !

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