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Festuca gigantea

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Name

Identification
Festuca gigantea (L.) Vill. [family POACEAE ] (stored under name); Bromus triflorus L. [family POACEAE ]
Related name
  • Pseudobromus engleri
  • Bromus nemorosus
  • Bromus asper
  • Bromus giganteus
  • Bromus triflorus
  • Festuca gigantea
  • Festuca engleri

Flora

Entry for PSEUDOBROMUS engleri (Pilg.) 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, Part (Part 1), page 1, (1970) Author: W. D. Clayton
Names
PSEUDOBROMUS engleri (Pilg.) W. D. Clayton [family POACEAE], in K.B. 23: 293 (1969). Type: Tanganyika, W. Usambara Mts., Magamba, Engler 1279 (B, holo.!)
Festuca engleri Pilg. [family POACEAE], in E.J. 40: 85 (1907)
Pseudobromus brassii C. E. Hubbard [family POACEAE], in K.B. 4: 341 (1949); Ann. list Nyasaland grasses: 55 (1958). Type: Malawi, Nyika Plateau, Brass 17282 (K, holo.!)
Festuca gigantea Robyns & Tournay var. africana [family POACEAE], in B.J.B.B. 25: 245 (1955) & F.P.N.A. 3: 196 (1955). Type: Mt. Kenya, Fries 1220 (K, iso.!)
Festuca gigantea [family POACEAE], [sensu G.T.: 14 (1965), non (L.) Vill.]
Information
Loosely tufted perennial from a short knotty rhizome; culms 1.3–2 m. high, robust. Leaf-blades 30–45 cm. long and 7–20 mm. wide. Panicle 30–40 cm. long, loose, the branches spreading or ascending. Spikelets 2–4-flowered with an additional barren floret, 9–13 mm. long; glumes lanceolate, acuminate, the lower 4–6 mm. long, the upper 6–8 mm. long; lower lemma 7–9 mm. long, 3–5-nerved, the intermediate nerves often indistinct, awned from just below the minutely bidentate hyaline tip; awn 7–10 mm. long; anthers 3.5–4 mm. long. Fig. 20.
Range
DISTR. K4; T3, 7
Altitude range
2000–2500 m.
Distribution
KENYA Mt. Kenya, W. side, 27 Jan. 1922, Fries 1220!TANGANYIKA Lushoto District Shume Forest, 17 July 1913, Eichinger in Herb. Amani 5667!TANGANYIKA Iringa District Dabaga, 26 July 1933, Greenway 3398!TANGANYIKA Mt. Rungwe, Geilinger 2337!
Distribution (external)
Malawi
Notes
Pseudobromus engleri is very similar to P. biflorus A. Camus (1930), a species of smaller stature from Madagascar. It is easily confused with Festuca, and should be compared with F. mekiste (p. 58).

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