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Eragrostis racemosa

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Identification
Eragrostis racemosa (Thunb.) Steud. [family POACEAE ]
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Flora

Entry for ERAGROSTIS chalcantha Trin. [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 chalcantha Trin. [family POACEAE], Gram. Gen. 401, and in Mém. Acad. Pétersb. sér. 6, i. 401;—Nees, Fl. Afr. Austr. 389; Drège in Linnæa, xx. 255; Steud. Syn. Pl. Glum. i. 270; Durand & Schinz, Consp. Fl. Afr. v. 881.
ERAGROSTIS racemosa Steud. [family POACEAE], Syn. Pl. Glum. i. 271; Durand & Schinz, Consp. Fl. Afr. v. 889.
Poa racemosa Thunb. [family POACEAE], Prodr. 21; Fl. Cap. i. 422; ed. Schult. 113; Kunth, Enum. i. 344.
Poa chalcantha Kunth [family POACEAE], Enum. i. 339.
Information
perennial, densely cæspitose; culms erect, straight, 1/2–1 ft. long, glabrous, smooth, 1-noded, uppermost internode occupying 3/4 or more of the culm and long exserted; leaves crowded at the base, more or less beset with spreading often tubercle-based hairs, rarely quite glabrous; sheaths striate, tight, bearded at the mouth or not, lowest firm, persistent; ligule a dense fringe of very short hairs; blades linear, tapering to a fine often subcallous point, 1–4 in. by 1–2 lin., flat or more or less involute or convolute, particularly in the upper part, rigid, smooth or scaberulous on the upper side, obscurely striate above, conspicuously so below; panicle ovate to oblong, 1–3 in. long, more or less contracted; axis smooth below, compressed and scabrid along the angles above; branches solitary, spreading, 3–9 lin. long, racemosely 6–2-spiculate or shorter and reduced to a single spikelet, filiform, more or less angular, scabrid; pedicels often puberulous, very short; spikelets ovate-oblong to oblong, obtuse, somewhat turgid, 2 1/2–4 lin. by 1 1/4–1 3/4 lin., closely 7–15-flowered, olive-green to almost leaden-grey; rhachilla persistent, smooth, joints very short; glumes unequal, ovate, obtuse to subacute, upper longer, about 3/4 lin. long, keels scabrid; valves broadly and obliquely ovate, obtuse to subacute, 1 lin. long, membranous, side-nerves more or less inconspicuous, keel scaberulous near the tip; pales 3/4 lin. long, keels spinulously scabrid; anthers about 1/2– 2/3 lin. long; grain subglobose to almost cubic, less than 1/4 lin. long, brown; embryo very large. null
Distribution
COAST REGION Swellendam Div.; Puspus Valley, Ecklon & Zeyher! Riversdale Div.; hills near Zoetemelks River, Burchell, 6755! between Little Vet River and Kampsche Berg, Burchell, 6885! Uitenhage Div.; Vanstadens. berg Range, Zeyher! Peddie Div.; Fredricksburgh, on the Golana River, Gill! Alexandria Div.; Zuurberg Range, 2000–3000 ft., Drège! Albany Div.; near Grahamstown, MacOwan, 153! Komgha Div.; near Komgha, Flanagan, 912! between Zandplaat and Komgha, 2000–3000 ft., Drège. Queenstown Div.; Finchams Nek near Queenstown, 3900 ft., Galpin, 2376! Shiloh, 3500 ft., Baur, 910! Stockenstrom Div.; near Philipton and on the Winterberg Range, Ecklon, on Kat River Berg, Ecklon.EASTERN REGION Tembuland, Tabase near Bazeia, Baur, 320! Pondoland (Faku's Territory), Sutherland! Natal; Durban Bay, Krauss, 295! Durban Flats, Buchanan, 46! Umpumulo, common, 2000 ft., Buchanan, 256! Rovelo Hills, 7000 ft., Sutherland! De Beers Pass, Wood, 5995! Pieter Maritzburg, Wood, 7230! Drakensberg Range, near Van Reenens Pass, 5000–6000 ft., Wood, 7223!KALAHARI REGION Orange Free State; by the Caledon River, near Komissie Drift, 4000 ft., Zeyher, 1835! Burke, 114! and without precise locality, Cooper, 3363! Transvaal; Mooi River near Potchefstroom, Nelson, 62*! Wonderboomport, near Pretoria, Rehmann, 4496! Houtbosch, Rehmann, 5688! 5685! Bosch Veld, at Menaars Farm, Rehmann, 4859! Apies River, Nelson, 98*! Blauw Bank, Nelson, 24*! near Lydenberg, Wilms, 1718! Apies Poort near Pretoria, Rehmann, 4043!SOUTH AFRICA without precise locality, Thunberg! Drège, 4329!

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