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Eragrostis trachyphylla

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Name

Identification
Eragrostis capensis (Thunb.) Trin. [family POACEAE ] (stored under name); Eragrostis trachyphylla Pilg. [family POACEAE ]
Related name
  • Eragrostis manikensis
  • Eragrostis brizoides
  • Eragrostis trachyphylla
  • Eragrostis capensis

Flora

Entry for ERAGROSTIS capensis (Thunb.) Trin. [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 capensis (Thunb.) Trin. [family POACEAE], in Mém. Acad. Sci. Pétersb., sér. 6, 1: 400 (1830); R.K.G.: 19 (1958); Ann. list Nyasaland grasses: 39 (1958); G.T.: 34 (1965). Type: South Africa, Cape Province, Thunberg 2330 (UPS, holo., K, microfiche !)
Poa brizoides L. f. [family POACEAE], Suppl. Pl.: 110 (1781). Type: “Africa” (whereabouts uncertain)
Briza capensis Thunb. [family POACEAE], Prodr. Pl. Cap.: 21 (1794)
Eragrostis brizoides (L. f.) Nees [family POACEAE], in Linnaea 7: 328 (1832); Peter, F.D.O.-A. 1: 332 (1930), non Schult. (1824), nom. illegit.
Eragrostis trachyphylla Pilg. [family POACEAE], in E.J. 30: 269 (1901); G.T.: 34 (1965). Type: Tanzania, Mbeya District, ? Nsundas [Suntas], Goetze 1435 (B, holo.)
Eragrostis elongato-compressa De Wild. [family POACEAE], in B.J.B.B. 6: 62, fig. 1 (1919). Type: Zaire, Katanga, Homblé 6 (BR, holo., K, iso. !)
Eragrostis manikensis De Wild. [family POACEAE], in B.J.B.B. 6: 68, fig. 5 (1919). Types: Zaire, Katanga, Manika, Hock (BR, syn.) & Biano, Homblé 689 (K, isosyn. !) & Katanga, Homblé 2 & 3 (both K, isosyn.!)
Information
Caespitose perennial from a short underground rhizome, the basal sheaths ± persistent, sometimes fibrous and tomentose; culms 10–120 cm. high, erect or sometimes geniculate. Leaf-blades convolute or flattened, 7–35 cm. long, 2–5 mm. wide, firm, glaucous. Panicle narrowly ovate and spreading or linear and contracted, 4–11 cm. long, the spikelets shortly (1–2 mm.) pedicelled on the primary branches or sometimes on short secondary branchlets. Spikelets 3–35-flowered, ovate to suborbicular, 3.5–15 mm. long, 3–7 mm. wide, plump, brownish green suffused with purple and with light brown glumes, breaking up from the base, the rhachilla persistent; glumes ovate to ovate-elliptic, subequal, 3–4 mm. long, 1–3-nerved, acute to acuminate; lemmas broadly elliptic, 2.5–4 mm. long, cartilaginous with a granular surface, distinctly 3-nerved, rounded on the back, subobtuse; palea falling soon after the lemma, the keels minutely puberulous, neither thickened nor winged; anthers 3, 1.4–1.8 mm. long. Caryopsis elliptic, dorsally flattened, 2 mm. long. Fig. 61/6, p. 193.
Range
DISTR. K3; T4, 7, 8 Zaire (Katanga) to South Africa
Altitude range
1000–2000 m.
Distribution
KENYA Trans-Nzoia District Kitale, 13 Mar. 1953, Bogdan 3735! & 8 km. S. of Kitale, 8 June 1952, Bogdan 3439 !TANZANIA Ufipa District Kalambo R., 15 Dec. 1958, Vesey-FitzGerald 2076!TANZANIA Mbeya District Chimala escarpment, 5 Dec. 1963, Richards 18575 !TANZANIA Songea District by Nonganonga stream, 21 Jan. 1956, Milne-Redhead & Taylor 8386 !
Distribution (external)
Madagascar
Thailand

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