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Identification
Festuca costata Nees [family POACEAE ]
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Flora

Entry for FESTUCA costata Nees [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 1), page 1, (1970) Author: W. D. Clayton
Names
FESTUCA costata Nees [family POACEAE], Fl. Afr. Austr.: 447 (1841); R.K.G.: 15 (1958); G.T.: 14 (1965). Types: South Africa, Cape Province, several syntypes including Katberg, Drège (K, isosyn.!)
FESTUCA milanjiana Rendle [family POACEAE], in Trans. Linn. Soc, ser. 2, 4: 59 (1894); Ann. list Nyasaland grasses: 42 (1958). Type: Malawi, Mt. Mlanje, Whyte (K, iso.!)
Information
Densely tufted perennial; culms 60 cm. to 1 m. high, the base sub-bulbous and thickly clad in the fibrous remnants of old leaf-sheaths. Leaf-blades 15–50 cm. long and 2–4 mm. wide, mostly involute; ligule 1–4 mm. long. Panicle 10–20 cm. long, loose. Spikelets 3–6-flowered, oblong, 10–20 mm. long, gaping, often tinged with pink or purple; glumes unequal, the lower 3.5–6.5 mm. long, the upper 4–8 mm. long; lemmas ± indurated, scaberulous, the lower 6.5–10 mm. long, narrowly obtuse, often with an obscure subapical mucro less than 1 mm. long; palea as long as the lemma, the keels scabrid; ovary glabrous or hairy on the top; anthers 3.5 mm. long.
Range
DISTR. K4; T7
Altitude range
2400–3000 m.
Distribution
KENYA Mt. Kenya, NE. sector, near Ngarinaro R., 15 Aug. 1949, Schelpe 2684!TANGANYIKA Mbeya/Njombe District Elton Plateau, 30 Nov. 1963, Richards 18490! & SE. side of Elton Plateau, Oct. 1963, Procter 2443!TANGANYIKA Rungwe District Ukinga Mts., Mwakaleli, 8 Jan. 1914, Stolz 2431!
Distribution (external)
Mozambique
Malawi
Rhodesia

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