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Eragrostis phaeantha

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Name

Identification
Eragrostis phaeantha C.E.Hubb. [family POACEAE ] Verified by unknown, Eragrostis homblei De Wild. [family POACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by unknown,
Related name
  • Eragrostis phaeantha
  • Eragrostis macilenta
  • Eragrostis homblei

Flora

Entry for ERAGROSTIS homblei De Wild. [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 homblei De Wild. [family POACEAE], ,in B.J.B.B. 6: 66, fig. 3 (1919). Type: Zaire, Katanga, Kapanda, Homblé 982 (K, iso.!)
ERAGROSTIS lukwangulensis Pilg. [family POACEAE], in N.B.G.B. 15: 703 (1942); G.T.: 31 (1965). Type: Tanzania, Morogoro, Lukwangule Plateau, Schlieben 3545 (K, iso. !)
ERAGROSTIS emsonii C. E. Hubbard [family POACEAE], in K.B. 4: 347 (1949). Type: Tanzania, Iringa, Emson 436 (K, holo. !)
ERAGROSTIS phaeantha C. E. Hubbard [family POACEAE], in K.B. 4: 347 (1949). Type: Malawi, Mlanje, Luchenya Plateau, Brass 16567 (K, holo. !)
ERAGROSTIS chalarantha Gilli [family POACEAE], in Ann. Naturhist. Mus. Wien 69: 46 (1966). Type: Tanzania, Njombe District, Uwemba, Gilli 69 (W, holo. !)
ERAGROSTIS linozodes Gilli [family POACEAE], in Ann. Naturhist. Mus. Wien 69: 47 (1966). Type: Tanzania, Njombe District, Uwemba, Gilli 73 (W, holo. !)
Information
Coarse tussocky perennial; culms 20–90 cm. high, erect. Leaf-blades flat, 10–30 cm. long, 3–6 mm. wide. Panicle elliptic, 15–30 cm. long, diffuse, with slender often flexuous branches and pedicels. Spikelets 4–8-fiowered, narrowly oblong, 3–7 mm. long, 1–2 mm. wide, dark purplish green, the florets untidily spreading, breaking up from the apex with the rhachilla fragile, or from the base with the rhachilla persistent; glumes narrowly ovate, subequal, 1.5–2.7 mm. long; lemmas ovate-elliptic, 2–3 mm. long, firmly membranous, the lateral nerves indistinct, acute to sharply acute; palea smooth or scaberulous on the keels, persistent; anthers 3, 1–1.2 mm. long. Caryopsis oblong, 1.2 mm. long. Fig. 60/7, p. 190.
Range
DISTR. T4, 6, 7
Altitude range
1700–2400 m.
Distribution
TANZANIA Ufipa District Lake Kwela, 11 Mar. 1959, McCallum Webster T.32 !TANZANIA Iringa District Mufindi, 1 Nov. 1947, Greenway & Brenan 8290 ! & R. M. Davies A.5 !
Distribution (external)
Zaire
Malawi
Notes
Very similar to the annual species E. macilenta and best recognized by the long narrow glumes.  It resembles E. nigra Steud., an Indian species with persistent rhachilla, and shorter (1.5–2.2 mm.), blunter lemmas.

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