Isotype of Hubbardochloa gracilisAuquier [family GRAMINEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on sheet.,
Related name
Hubbardochloa gracilis
Flora
Entry for Hubbardochloa gracilis Auquier [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
Hubbardochloa gracilisAuquier [family GRAMINEAE], in Bull. Jard. Bot. Belg. 50: 242 (1980). TAB. 57. Type from Rwanda.
Information
Loosely caespitose annual; culms up to 12(17) cm tall, erect or geniculately ascending, very slender, usually branched from the lower nodes; leaf laminas 0.6–1.5 cm × (1)2–5 mm, linear-lanceolate, flat, becoming involute when dry, abruptly contracted at the base, acute at the apex.Panicle 2.5–3 cm long, obovate, the branches spreading or suberect, filiform and flexuous, the spikelets often secund.Spikelets 1.2–1.4 mm long, lanceolate; glumes subequal, as long as the spikelet, linear to narrowly ovate, acute at the apex; lemma 0.7–0.8(1) mm long, narrowly ovate, ciliate on the margins above; awn 3.5–6(7.5) mm long.
Habitat
In Brachystegia woodland on rocky slopes
Altitude range
c. 1400 m.
1400
1400
Distribution
Zambia N Kawambwa Distr., Chishinga Ranch, near Lufubu River, c. 1400 m, 27.iv.1961, Astle 550 (K; SRGH).
Distribution (external)
Rwanda
Burundi
Notes
Although represented in the Flora Zambesiaca area by just one collection, it is said to be common where it grows.
