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Eustachys petraea

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Identification
Chloris petraea Sw. [family POACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on sheet, Eustachys petraea (Sw.) Desv. [family POACEAE ] Verified by Not on sheet,
Related name
  • Chloris dusenii
  • Eustachys paspaloides
  • Agrostis complanata
  • Ctenium elegans
  • Chondrosium not on sheet
  • Chloris septentrionalis
  • Cynosurus paspaloides
  • Chloris petraea
  • Cynodon tener
  • Eustachys petraea

Flora

Entry for Eustachys paspaloides Vahl Lanza & Mattei [family GRAMINEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Zambesiaca
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
FZ, Vol 10, Part 2, (1999) Author: T. Cope
Names
Cynosurus paspaloides Vahl [family GRAMINEAE], Symb. Bot. 2: 21, t. 27 (1791).
Eustachys paspaloides Vahl Lanza & Mattei [family GRAMINEAE], in Boll. Reale Orto Bot. Giardino Colon. Palermo 2: 56 (1910). —Sturgeon in Rhodesia Agric. J. 51: 379 (1954). —Chippindall in Meredith, Grasses & Pastures of South Africa: 194, fig. 170 (1955). —Launert in Merxmüller, Prodr. Fl. SW. Afrika, fam. 160: 116 (1970). —Simon in Kirkia 8: 25 & 59 (1971). —Renvoize in F.T.E.A., Gramineae: 335 (1974). —Gibbs Russell et al., Grasses Southern Africa [Mem. Bot. Surv. S. Africa No. 58]: 168, fig. 96 (1990). TAB. 62. Type from South Africa (Cape Province).
Chloris petraea Thunb. [family GRAMINEAE], Prodr. Pl. Cap., part 1: 20 (1794). Type from South Africa.
Eustachys petraea Thunb. Desv. [family GRAMINEAE], in Nouv. Bull. Sci. Soc. Philom. Paris 2: 189 (1810).
Chloris paspaloides Vahl Hochst. [family GRAMINEAE], in Flora 38: 206 (1855).
Information
Perennial with thick horizontal or oblique rhizome, up to 80 cm tall, erect or ascending; leaf sheaths flabellate, in bunches at the lower nodes; leaf laminas 4.5–30 cm × 2–5(10) mm, abruptly acute.Inflorescence of 5–10 digitate racemes 6–8 cm long.Spikelets 2.4–2.5 mm long; inferior glume 1.6–2 mm long, ovate, boat-shaped; superior glume 1.8–2.4 mm long, oblong-elliptic, the awn 0.8–1 mm long; fertile lemma as long as the spikelet, ovate in profile, glabrous or sparsely pubescent on the body, ciliate on the keel and lateral nerves, emarginate, with or without an awn-point up to 0.8 mm long; sterile floret 1.2–1.5 mm long, truncate.
Habitat
In woodland on doloritic hillsides and escarpments, on moist red doloritic soils, and in sandveld woodland and dambos
Range
east tropical Africa from Ethiopia southwards to South Africa and Namibia
Altitude range
10–1710 m.
1710
10
Distribution
Botswana SE c. 5 km north of Gaborone, 1030 m, 12.xii.1977, O.J. Hansen 3297 (K; SRGH).Zambia N Mbala Distr., Nagatani Farm, 1710 m, 23.ii.1959, McCallum Webster A148 (K).Zimbabwe N Mazowe (Mazoe), 1280 m, 16.xi.1980, H.H. Burrows 1512 (SRGH).Malawi S Mpatamanga, Shire Escarpment from Chileka to Mwanza, 11.xii.1950, Jackson 326 (K).Mozambique N Mogincual Distr., andados 27 km na picada nova do Namialo para Quixaxe, c. 120 m, 25.xi.1963, Torre & Paiva 9300 (K).Zimbabwe W Nkayi Distr., Gwampa Forest Reserve, i.1955, Goldsmith 20/55 (K).Zimbabwe E Chipinge Distr., Save (Sabi)–Chipinge road, ii.1948, Rattray 1319 (K).Zimbabwe S Masvingo Distr., Makoholi Experimental Farm, 23.xii.1947, D.A. Robinson 144 (K).Mozambique M Chia, by Maputo River, near Matutuíne (Bela Vista), 28.xi.1983, Timberlake 3263 (SRGH).
Distribution (external)
Arabia
Notes
\"Red rhodes grass\".

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