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Name

Identification
Eragrostis tremula (Lam.) Hochst. ex Steud. [family POACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Van der Veken P., 1954
Related name
  • Eragrostis serpula
  • Eragrostis
  • Eragrostis rhachitricha
  • Eragrostis tremula
  • Eragrostis multiflora
Common name
  • ologuélé (CHOP) (GUINEA, MANDING-MANINKA), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 2
  • bibirua (Bartha) (NIGER, HAUSA), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 2
  • barata (JMD) gàndàskà (C&H; A&S) gantaska (JMD) kθ^làsθ^lθ́m (C&H) kθ̉làsē̃lē̃m (A&S) (NIGERIA, KANURI), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 2
  • dutaleho (JMD) saraaho (JMD) sarawal (Saunders; JMD) shagaje (Saunders; JMD) tappo (JMD) (NIGERIA, FULA-FULFULDE (Nigeria)), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 2
  • rauwaj (JMD) (NIGERIA, ARABIC-SHUWA), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 2
  • kullum (pl. -ó) (D&C) sàríijì (pl. -ò) (D&C) (NIGER, SONGHAI), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 2
  • kiu pité (A.Chev.) paguiri jaule = ‘paguiri’ of the guinea fowl (A.Chev.) sorgobo (A.Chev.) (MALI, FULA-PULAAR (Mali)), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 2
  • diãmbul (A.Chev.) mbèlkèñ (JB) (SENEGAL, SERER), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 2
  • aknuse (JMD) (NIGERIA, GWARI), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 2
  • burburwa (auctt.) burburwar fàdámàà (JMD) gafarfatin (Bargery) hàtsàà-hátsàà (auctt.) hure (Kennedy) kòòmáyyàà (auctt.) matsandaka (JMD) matsandaka tsumbe (ZOG) námíjìn tsíntsííyáá (JMD) tsíntsííyáá = broom (JMD) tsíntsííyár fadama (JMD) tsùmbé (JMD) (NIGERIA, HAUSA), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 2
  • sεrεlinyaxe (JMD) (SIERRA LEONE, KORANKO), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 2
  • fitti-fitti (A.Chev.) subu, subu furia furia, subu koré (A.Chev.) (MALI, SONGHAI), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 2
  • salguf (A.Chev.) sèlgue (JB) (SENEGAL, WOLOF), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 2
  • tadjit (A.Chev.) (MALI, TAMACHEK), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 2
  • sambu gambi (A.Chev.) wolo gaman (A.Chev.) wolo kaman (A.Chev.) (MALI, MANDING-BAMBARA), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 2
  • peni-fafagbi (JMD) peni-pa-gbel (JMD) (SIERRA LEONE, TEMNE), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 2
  • berberinoa (Blaikie) (NIGERIA, NUPE), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 2
  • ndirra (JMD) ndirra sina from sina: companion, or mate of (Pirie; JMD) numu ju tio = blacksmith’s grass (Pirie) nyantan (JMD) (THE GAMBIA, MANDING-MANDINKA), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 2
  • kiu pité (A.Chev. fide JMD) paguiri jaule = ‘paguiri’ of the guinea fowl (A.Chev. fide JMD) sorgobo (A.Chev.) (SENEGAL, FULA-PULAAR (Senegal)), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 2
  • saraho (ABM) (NIGER, FULA-FULFULDE (Niger)), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 2
  • funfuri (JMD) sankabesuwi (JMD) (SIERRA LEONE, SUSU), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 2
  • sagha (Scholz) (UPPER VOLTA, MOORE), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 2
  • àgbàdo-ẹshin (JMD; Verger) eéran-awó (JMD; Verger) irungbọ̀n ẹfọ̀n from ẹfч̀n: buffalo (Verger) iwó-awó from awó: guinea fowl (JMD) ọgbe-agufọn a sp. of bird (Dodd; JMD) ọka ẹς̣in = horse’s corn (JMD; Verger) yayángan (auctt.) (NIGERIA, YORUBA), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 2
  • otokama (JB) sambu gambi (A.Chev.) wolo gaman (A.Chev.) wolo kaman (A.Chev.) (SENEGAL, MANDING-BAMBARA), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 2
  • komaya (Williams) (GHANA, HAUSA), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 2
  • ìyō = ram’s mane (Odoh; RB) (NIGERIA, IGALA), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 2
  • Volta) бuruudì loosely for certain annal spp. (K&T) (UPPER VOLTA, FULA-FULFULDE (Upper), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 2

Flora

Entry for ERAGROSTIS tremula 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 tremula Steud. [family POACEAE], ,Syn. Pl. Glum. 1: 269 (1854); Ann. list grasses Ug.: 20 (1947); Troupin, Fl. Garamba 1: 39 (1956); F.P.S. 3: 456 (1956); R.K.G.: 20 (1958); Ann. list Nyasaland grasses: 40 (1958); I.G.U.: 31 (1960); G.T.: 35 (1965); Clayton in F.W.T.A., ed. 2, 3: 391 (1972). Type: Sudan, Blue Nile Province, Abu Qurud [Abu-Gerad], Kotschy 6 (K, iso.!)
Poa tremula Lam. [family POACEAE], Tab. Encycl. 1: 185 (1791). Type: Senegal, Roussillon (P, holo.)
Eragrostis lamarckii Steud. [family POACEAE], Syn. Pl. Glum. 1: 269 (1854). Based on Poa tremula Lam.
Eragrostis serpula Chiov. [family POACEAE], in Ann. 1st. Bot. Roma 8: 66 (1903). Type: Ethiopia, Eritrea, R. Barca, Terracciano & Pappi 2088 (FI, holo. !)
Information
Loosely tufted annual; culms 30–100 cm. high, erect or ascending. Leaf-blades flat, up to 20 cm. long, 5 mm. wide. Panicle ovate, 7–30 cm. long, very loose and open, the spikelets trembling on long fine pedicels, sometimes bearded in the axils. Spikelets 10–60-flowered, linear, 5–25 mm. long, 1.5–2 mm. wide, the lemmas closely imbricate and covering the rhachilla, purplish, breaking up from the base, the rhachilla persistent; glumes unequal, subacute, the lower narrowly ovate and 0.8–1.2 mm. long, the upper ovate and 1.2–1.5 mm. long; lemmas broadly ovate, 1.5–1.7 mm. long, obtuse (ovate and subacute in side view); palea scabrid on the keels, persistent; anthers 2, 0.3–0.5 mm. long. Caryopsis subglobose to broadly ovoid, 0.4–0.6 mm. long. Fig. 62/5, p. 196.
Range
DISTR. U1–4; K2, 5; T1, 4, 6, 8 throughout tropical Africa and in India
Altitude range
sea-level to 1600 m.
Distribution
KENYA Turkana District Kacheliba, 4 Dec. 1959, Bogdan 4964 !KENYA W. Suk District Suam R., Kongelai, 31 Mar. 1957, Versell in Bogdan 4492 ! & 55 km. N. of Kitale, 27 Nov. 1962, Bogdan 5604 !TANZANIA Mwanza District Ukiriguru, 1 May 1945, Greenway 7383 !TANZANIA Buha District Kasakela Reserve, 18 Nov. 1962, Verdcourt 3367!TANZANIA Masasi-Muiti, Apr. 1926, Schlieben 6424!UGANDA Teso District Abela, 24 Oct. 1939, A. S. Thomas 3048!UGANDA Mbale District Bukedi-Bunyole counties [Budama and Bunyuli], 21 June 1927, Snowden 1125!UGANDA Mengo District Nakasongola, 3 Jan. 1957, Harker 611 !

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