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Hyparrhenia figariana

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Name

Identification
Hyparrhenia figariana (Chiov.) W. D. Clayton [family GRAMINEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Hubbard C. E., 1974 Cymbopogon figarianus Chiov. [family GRAMINEAE ] Verified by Hubbard C. E., 1974
Related name
  • Andropogon filipendulus
  • Cymbopogon figarianus
  • Hyparrhenia figariana

Flora

Entry for HYPARRHENIA figariana (Chiov.) 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, page 451, (1982) Author: W. D. CLAYTON and S.A. RENVOIZE
Names
HYPARRHENIA figariana (Chiov.) W.D. Clayton [family POACEAE], in K.B., Addit. Ser. 2: 94 (1969) & in F.W.T.A., ed. 2, 3: 494 (1972). Type: Sudan, Fazogli, Figari (FI, holo.!)
Andropogon filipendulus Hack. var. calvescens [family POACEAE], in DC., Monogr. Phan. 6: 635 (1889). Type: Sudan, Seriba Ghattas, Schweinfurth 2421 (K, lecto.!)
Cymbopogon figarianus Chiov. [family POACEAE], in Bull. Soc. Bot. Ital. 1917: 59 (1917)
Hyparrhenia barteri (Hack.) Stapf var. calvescens [family POACEAE], in F.T.A. 9: 322 (1919); Ann. list grasses Ug.: 23 (1947); F.P.S. 3: 469 (1956)
Information
Annual; culms 60–200 cm. high, erect. Leaf-blades up to 30 cm. long, 4 mm. wide. False panicle 20–60 cm. long, narrow 2–5-tiered, usually with the successive tiers densely fastigiate; spatheoles linear, 3–7 cm. long, at length reddish brown, the peduncles up to half as long; racemes 1–2 cm. long, 2-awned per pair, not deflexed; raceme-bases unequal, the upper 6.5–10 mm. long, glabrous. Homogamous pairs 1 at the base of the lower raceme, 2 at the base of the upper. Sessile spikelet 6.5–10 mm. long, glabrous; callus 2–3 mm. long, pungent; awn (4–)5–7.5 cm. long, hirtellous with fulvous hairs 0.7–1 mm. long. Pedicelled spikelet with an awnlet 1–4 mm. long.
Range
DISTR. U1–3; T1, 4–8
Altitude range
500–1500 m.
Distribution
TANZANIA Shinyanga District Old Shinyanga, 1 Apr. 1932, B.D. Burtt 2043! & 29 Apr. 1950, Welch 38!TANZANIA Iringa District 5 km. from Msembe on track to Mbagi, 31 Mar. 1970, Greenway & Kanuri 14236!UGANDA W. Nile District E. Madi, Adjumani [Ajumani], 24 Nov. 1941, A.S. Thomas 4055!UGANDA Acholi District Pakuba, 11 Oct. 1957, Buechner 128!UGANDA Karamoja District 43 km. W. of Moroto, 27 Aug. 1954, Clayton 85!
Distribution (external)
Sudan
Zaire
Nigeria
Notes
H. figariana and H. fdipendula differ in habit, the latter having scaly rhizomes. There are also differences in the somewhat fastigiate inflorescence and larger spikelet parts of H. figariana, but there is so much overlap between the two species that these characters are unreliable.

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