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Eriochloa fouchei

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Name

Identification
Eriochloa fouchei Stent [family POACEAE ] Eriochloa fatmensis (Hochst. & Steud.) Clayton [family POACEAE ] (stored under name);
Related name
  • Eriochloa fatmensis
  • Eriochloa fouchei

Flora

Entry for ERIOCHLOA fatmensis (Hochst. & Steud.) W.D. Clayton [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, page 451, (1982) Author: W. D. CLAYTON and S.A. RENVOIZE
Names
ERIOCHLOA fatmensis (Hochst. & Steud.) W.D. Clayton [family POACEAE], in K.B. 30: 108 (1975). Type: Saudi Arabia, Mecca, Schimper 806 (K, iso.!)
Panicum fatmense Hochst. & Steud. [family POACEAE], in sched., Schimper It. Un.: 806 (1837)
Panicum annulatum A. Rich. [family POACEAE], Tent. Fl. Abyss. 2: 370 (1851), non Eriochloa annulata (Fluegge) Kunth (1929), nec Helopus annulatus (Fluegge) Nees (1829). Types: Sudan, Arashkol [Arasch-Cool], Kotschy 382 & Ethiopia, Modat, Schimper 1748 (both K, isosyn.!)
Helopus nubicus Steud. [family POACEAE], Syn. Pl. Glum. 1: 100 (1854). Type: Sudan, Arasch-Cool, Kotschy 382 (K, iso.!)
Helopus acrotrichus Steud. [family POACEAE], Syn. Pl. Glum. 1: 100 (1854), nom. superfl. Based on Panicum fatmense Hochst. & Steud.
Eriochloa punctata (Steud.) K. Schum. var. acrotricha [family POACEAE], in P.O.A. C: 100 (1895)
Eriochloa acrotricha (Steud.) Thell. [family POACEAE], in Viert. Nat. Ges. Zürich 52: 435 (1907); F.T.A. 9: 499 (1919); E.A. Pasture Plants 2: 16 (1927), nom. illegit, non E. acrotricha (Hook.f.) Schinz(1905)
Eriochloa nubica (Steud.) Thell. [family POACEAE], in Viert. Nat. Ges. Zürich 64: 697 (1919); Fl. Agrost. Congo Belge 2: 77 (1934); Ann. list grasses Ug.: 20 (1947); F.P.N.A. 3: 82 (1955); F.P.S. 3: 460 (1956); R.K.G.: 47 (1958); Ann. list Nyasaland grasses: 41 (1958); I.G.U.: 33 (I960); G.T.: 72 (1965); Clayton in F.W.T.A., ed. 2, 3: 437 (1972)
Eriochloa fouchei Stent [family POACEAE], in Bothalia 1: 260 (1924). Type: South Africa, Gezina, Fouche 7 (PRE, holo.!)
Information
Annual; culms 10–120 cm. high, erect or geniculately ascending. Leaf-blades 3–30 cm. long, 2–10 mm. wide. Inflorescence 3–20 cm. long; racemes 1–5 cm. long, the rhachis puberulous (occasionally pilose), triquetrous or narrowly winged, bearing paired spikelets; pedicels commonly setose, those of a pair usually free. Spikelets lanceolate, (2.5–)3–5 mm. long, thinly pubescent; lower glume absent; upper glume attenuate to an awnlet 0.5–4 mm. long; lower floret represented only by a lemma; upper lemma with a mucro 0.3–1 mm. long. Fig. 136.
Range
DISTR. U1–3; K1–7; T1–8 throughout tropical and South Africa; also in Arabia and a few records from India
Altitude range
0–1800 m.
Distribution
KENYA Northern Frontier Province 80 km. SW. of Wajir, 10 Dec. 1971, Bally & A.R. Smith 14489!KENYA Nakuru District 40 km. NW. of Nakuru, 18 Sept. 1948, Bogdan 2093!KENYA Teita District Voi R., 6 Jan. 1967, Greenway & Kanuri 12985!TANZANIA Mpanda District Tumba, 9 Feb. 1950, Bullock 2410!TANZANIA Ufipa District Rukwa, 19 Mar. 1959, McCallum Webster T. 169!TANZANIA Iringa District Msembe Rest Camp Site, 12 Mar. 1970, Greenway & Kanuri 14090!UGANDA W. Nile District Pakwach [Pachwach], 18 May 1930, Snowden 1710!UGANDA Acholi District Kitgum, 12 Nov. 1945, A.S. Thomas 4350!UGANDA Karamoja District 11 km. W. of Moroto, 22 Oct. 1955, Langdale-Brown 1579!
Notes
A rare aberrant form has 3-flowered spikelets containing a herbaceous empty lemma, an indurated empty lemma, and an idurated floret (Tanzania: Newbould 6515! & Paulo 319! & Welch 522!).

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