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Hyparrhenia filipendula

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Name

Identification
Andropogon filipendulus Rendle [family POACEAE ] Hyparrhenia filipendula (Hochst.) Stapf [family POACEAE ] (stored under name);
Related name
  • Hyparrhenia nyassae
  • Anthistiria fasciculata
  • Andropogon filipendulus
  • Hyparrhenia piovani
  • Cymbopogon hirtus
  • Hyparrhenia vulpina
  • Hyparrhenia filipendula
Common name
  • wadeho (Saunders) (NIGERIA, FULA-FULFULDE (Nigeria)), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 2
  • tsiíkaà (Saunders) (NIGERIA, HAUSA), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 2

Flora

Entry for HYPARRHENIA filipendula Stapf Var. pilosa [family POACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of Tropical Africa, Vol 9, page 1, (1917) Author: (By O. STAPF.)
Names
HYPARRHENIA filipendula Stapf Var. pilosa [family POACEAE]
Andropogon filipendulus Hochst. [family POACEAE], l.c. (partly)
Andropogon filipendulus Hack. var. pilosus [family POACEAE], l.c.; Durand & Schinz, l.c.
Andropogon finitimus Hack. var. rectirameus [family POACEAE], in Bolet. Soc. Brot. iii. 137 (name only).
Information
Heterogamous pairs of spikelets usually 2 (or rarely 3) in each raceme, or at least in the upper.Spikelets very hairy, racemes therefore silvery or greyish-villous, their indumentum contrasting with the fulvous awns.
Distribution
Angola Lower Guinea Benguella; sunny gravelly slopes at Munongue, Gossweiler, 4150! 4151! Mossamedes; near Huilla, Pearson, 2718! between Chibia and Quihita, Pearson, 2725! Serra de Chella, at Lobango, Newton, 32!German East Africa Mozamb. Dist. Kilimanjaro; below Majame, 3300 ft., Volkens, 1576! Muka, Kaessner, 899!Portuguese East Africa Mozamb. Dist. Beira, Rogers, 5945!Rhodesia Mozamb. Dist. Mumbwa, Mrs. Macaulay, 60! Salisbury, Nobbs, 630! 637! 669! 670! Eyles, 641! Sykinga, Nobbs, 647!British East Africa Nile Land Eastern Kenya, 4500 ft., Battiscombe, 851! Makindu, Linton, 105! Nairobi, Dowson, 241!
Notes
The form described as var. pilosa hardly deserves the status of a variety. According to Gossweiler it grows with the ordinary form at Munongue; it has also been collected along with it in Rhodesia and Natal. The species in its typical form has been found in Ceylon (Andropogon filipendulus, var. Thwaitesii, Hack.), and in the Philippines. Andropogon lachnatherus, Benth. (A. filipendulus, var. lachnatherus, Hack.), from Australia, is also conspecific. Its spikelets are much less hairy than those of the Angolan and British East African plants referred here to the variety pilosa. The Khasia plant quoted under Andropogon filipendulus in Hook. f. Fl. Brit. India, vii. 210, is a perfectly distinct species of Hyparrhenia. H. filipendula is often found on abandoned plantations, and its occurrence in India, Malaya and Australia may possibly be due to casual introduction.

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