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Fingerhuthia africana

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Identification
Fingerhuthia africana Lehm. [family POACEAE ]
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Entry for FINGERHUTHIA africana Lehm. [family POACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Capensis
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Capensis, Vol 7, page 310, (1900) Author: (By O. STAPF.)
Names
FINGERHUTHIA africana Lehm. [family POACEAE], Ind. Sem. Hort. Hamb. 1834; and in Linnæa, x. Litt.-Ber. 112;—Benth. in Hook. Icon. Pl. xiv. 54, t. 1373; Durand & Schinz, Consp. Fl. Afr. v. 873; Aitch. in Journ. Linn. Soc. xix. 193.
FINGERHUTHIA capensis Lehm. ex Nees [family POACEAE], Fl. Afr. Austr. 136.
FINGERHUTHIA ciliata Nees [family POACEAE], l.c.
FINGERHUTHIA affghanica Boiss. [family POACEAE], Fl. Or. v. 569; Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. vii. 306.
Information
densely tufted, glabrous; culms slender, about 1 ft. long, erect, simple, smooth, 2-noded, internodes exserted; sheaths glabrous, smooth, tight, the lower short, firm, whitish, persistent; blades linear, acute, 3–6 in. by 1–2 lin., flat or usually convolute, smooth below, finely scaberulous above, striate; panicle ellipsoid to cylindric, 1/2–1 1/2 in. by 4–6 lin., sometimes purplish; spikelets 2–2 1/2 lin. long, 2–4-flowered; glumes linear-lanceolate in profile, 1 1/2–2 lin. long, long and softly ciliate along the keel and upper margins; awn fine, 1–1 1/2 lin. long; valves ovate-lanceolate in profile, abruptly mucronate, 2 lin. long, rather firm except at the hyaline margin and obtuse tip, grooved below parallel to the keel, finely hairy near the margin below the middle, 7–9-nerved, side-nerves conniving and joining the middle nerve below the tip, the inner evanescent below, the middle one excurrent into a mucro; lodicules narrow, cuneate, 1/8 lin. long; anthers 1–1 1/4 lin. long; styles 1/4 lin. long; stigmas 1 lin. long. null
Range
Also in tropical Transvaal and on the Afghan-Indian frontier.
Distribution
CENTRAL REGION Prince Albert Div.; Jackal Fontein, Burke, 23! Zwartbulletje, near the Gamka River, 2500–3000 ft., Drège! Graaff Reinet Div.; mountain sides near Graaff Reinet, 2800 ft., Bolus, 673! Ceres Div.; at Yuk River, near Yuk River Hoogte, Burchell, 1269! Fraserburg Div.; between Karree River and Klein Quaggas Fontein, Burchell, 1408!COAST REGION Vanrhynsdorp Div.; Attys, 4000 ft., Schlechter, 8333! Riversdale Div.; in the Karoo, near the Gauritz River, below 1000 ft., Ecklon. Oudtshoorn Div.; Cango, Mund & Maire.KALAHARI REGION Griqualand West; Herbert Div., on the right bank of the Vaal River at Blaauwbosch Drift, Burchell, 1745! and between the Vaal  River and Lower Campbell, Burchell, 1788! Hay Div., at Griqua Town, Burchell, 1876! 1961/2! plains between Griqua Town and Witte Water, Burchell, 1980! between Witte Water and Riet Fontein, Burchell, 2009! and plains at the foot of the Asbestos Mountains, Burchell, 2086! Basutoland; Leribe, Buchanan, 129!SOUTH AFRICA without precise locality, Zeyher, 1784!WESTERN REGION Little Namaqualand; on rocks near Noagas, North of Kaus Mountains, 1500–2000 ft., Drège.

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