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Eriochloa trichopus

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Name

Identification
Eriochloa trichopus (Hochst.) Benth. [family POACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on Sheet, Panicum trichopus Hochst. [family POACEAE ] Verified by Bräuchler, C., 2013
Related name
  • Urochloa trichopus
  • Panicum trichopus
  • Eriochloa trichopus
  • Urochloa pullulans

Flora

Entry for UROCHLOA trichopus (Hochst.) Stapf [family POACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Somalia
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Somalia, Vol 4, (1995) Author: by T. A. Cope [updated by M. Thulin 2008]
Names
UROCHLOA trichopus (Hochst.) Stapf [family POACEAE], (1920);
Eriochloa trichopus (Hochst.) Benth. [family POACEAE], (1881). Fig. 131. [type as above]
Information
Coarse annual up to 170 cm high, ascending; leaves broadly linear, hispid. Inflorescence of 3–20 racemes on an axis 4–20 cm long; racemes 1–14 cm long, bearing single spikelets on a narrowly winged rhachis. Spikelets ovate, 2.5–5.5 mm long, acuminate or with a short awn-point; lower glume elliptic-oblong, 2/3–5/6 the length of the spikelet, 3-nerved, often with a tuft of hairs from the middle of the back, obtuse; lower lemma often with a ciliate fringe; upper lemma papillose, becoming rugulose on the flanks, with a mucro 0.5 mm long.
Range
S2, 3 tropical Africa, mainly in the east
Altitude range
0–50 m.
Distribution
SOMALIA Rose Innes 877; Gillett & al. 24935.
Distribution (external)
Arabia
Notes
Kurdo (Som.).

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