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Heteranthoecia guineensis

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Name

Identification
Heteranthoecia guineensis (Franch.) Robyns [family POACEAE ]
Related name
  • Heteranthoecia guineensis
Common name
  • silεrσ (NWT) (SIERRA LEONE, TEMNE), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 2
  • boxifσrotai (NWT) (SIERRA LEONE, SUSU), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 2
  • alate (NWT) (SIERRA LEONE, MENDE), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 2

Flora

Entry for HETERANTHOECIA guineensis (Franch.) Robyns [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 2), page 177, (1974) Author: W. D. CLAYTON, S. M. PHILLIPS AND S. A. RENVOIZE
Names
HETERANTHOECIA guineensis (Franch.) Robyns [family POACEAE], in B.J.B.B. 9: 201 (1932); Stapf & Hubbard in F.T.A. 9: 1099 (1934); Robyns, Fl. Agrost. Congo Belge 2: 370 (1934); Ann. list grasses Ug.: 22 (1947); I.G.U.: 35 (1960); G.T.: 54 (1965); Clayton in F.W.T.A., ed. 2, 3: 421 (1972). Types: Gabon, Griffon de Bellay (P, syn.) & Congo (Brazzaville), Thollon (P, syn., K, isosyn.!)
Dinebra guineensis Franch. [family POACEAE], in Bull. Soc. Hist. Nat. Autun 8: 376 (1895)
Heteranthoecia isachnoides Stapf [family POACEAE], in Hook., Ic. Pl. 30, t. 2927 (1911). Type: Nigeria, Nupe, Barter 1348 (K, holo. !)
Dinebra tuaensis Vanderyst [family POACEAE], in Bull. Agric. Congo Belge 11: 123 (1920), nom. prov.
Information
A mat-forming annual or perennial. Culms 10–30 cm. high, erect or ascending from a creeping base and rooting at the lower nodes. Leaf-blades 1–3 cm. long, 2–5 mm. wide, rather stiff. Inflorescence erect, 2–8 cm. long; spikes spreading or finally deflexed, up to 15, the lower 5–12 mm. long, the flattened rhachis ciliate on the margins and tapering to a blunt naked tip. Spikelets 1.7–2.3 mm. long, gaping; glumes lanceolate to narrowly ovate, 1–1.8 mm. long, 3–7-nerved; lower lemma ovate, 1.5–2.3 mm. long, 5–7-nerved, minutely hairy at the base and usually on the margins; upper lemma broadly ovate, 0.8–1 mm. long, densely and minutely pubescent. Fig. 117.
Range
DISTR. U4; T1 westwards to Sierra Leone, and southwards to Zambia and Angola
Altitude range
1120–1200 m.
Distribution
TANZANIA Bukoba, Jan. 1932, Haarer 2471 ! & 5 km. on Bukoba–Biharamulo road, Aug. 1931, Haarer 2065 !UGANDA Masaka District Lake Nabugabo, 5 Mar. 1933, A. S. Thomas 950 ! & 27 Apr. 1941, A. S. Thomas 3842 !

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