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Eragrostis turgida

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Identification
Eragrostis turgida (Schumach.) De Wild. [family POACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on Sheet, Poa turgida Schumach. [family POACEAE ] Verified by Not on Sheet, Poa gibbosa Vahl [family POACEAE ] Verified by Not on Sheet,
Related name
  • Poa gibbosa
  • Eragrostis turgida
  • Eragrostis brizoides
  • Eragrostis rubiginosa
  • Briza rubella
  • Eragrostis capens
  • Eragrostis ledermannii
  • Briya virens
  • Poa brizoides
  • Poa turgida
Common name
  • alkamar kwaδi = frog’s wheat (auctt.) (NIGERIA, HAUSA), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 2
  • ologonelé (CHOP) (GUINEA, MANDING-MANINKA), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 2
  • diadié (CHOP) (GUINEA, TAMACHEK), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 2
  • itẹ ẹmọ (Ward) (NIGERIA, YORUBA), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 2
  • samereeho (J&D) vutaleho (Saunders) (NIGERIA, FULA-FULFULDE (Nigeria)), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 2

Flora

Entry for ERAGROSTIS turgida (Schumach.) 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 turgida (Schumach.) De Wild. [family POACEAE], ,Compagnie Kasai: 250 (1910); Ann. list grasses Ug.: 20 (1947); F.P.S. 3: 458 (1956); I.G.U.: 31 (1960); Clayton in F.W.T.A., ed. 2, 3: 387 (1972). Type: Ghana, Accra Plains, Thonning (C, holo.!)
Poa turgida Schumach. [family POACEAE], Beskr. Guin. Pl.: 86(1827)
Eragrostis rubiginosa Trin. [family POACEAE], in Mém. Acad. Sci. Pétersb., sér. 6, 1: 401 (1830). Type: Ghana, Accra (LE, holo.!)
Poa rubiginosa (Trin.) Kunth [family POACEAE], Enum. Pl. 1: 339 (1833)
Briza rubella Steud. [family POACEAE], Syn. Pl. Glum. 1: 282 (1854). Type: Senegal, Leprieur (P, holo.!)
Eragrostis ledermannii Pilg. [family POACEAE], in E.J. 45: 210 (1910). Type: Cameroun, Garoua, Ledermann 4620 (B, holo.)
Information
Loosely tufted annual; culms 8–60 cm. high, erect or ascending. Leaf-blades flat, 4–18 cm. long, 2–8 mm. wide. Panicle narrowly oblong to ovate, 3–14 cm. long, the spikelets subsessile on the stiff primary branches, these with or without crateriform glands. Spikelets 5–80-flowered, rotund to oblong-ovate, 3–20 mm. long and 3–4 mm. wide, straw-coloured tinged with pink or purple, breaking up from the base, the rhachilla persistent, glumes ovate, subequal, 1.2–2.5 mm. long, thinly chartaceous, sparsely pilose, acute; lemmas almost hemispherical, 1.5–2.5 mm. long, closely imbricate, coriaceous, keeled, glabrous or with a few short stiff bristles near the base of the lateral nerves, broadly rounded; palea falling soon after the lemma, the keels puberulous; anthers 3, 0.5 mm. long. Caryopsis planoconvex, 1–1.5 mm. long. Fig. 61/8, p. 193.
Range
DISTR. U1, 3 Senegal to Sudan and Zaire
Altitude range
1200 m.
Distribution
UGANDA W. Nile District near Omugo Rest Camp, 10 Aug. 1953, Chancellor 149!UGANDA Teso District Serere, June 1932, Chandler 774 ! & 26 Oct. 1955, Langdale-Brown 1619 !

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