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Identification
Koeleria cristata (L.) Pers. [family POACEAE ]
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Flora

Entry for KOELERIA capensis (Steud.) Nees [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
KOELERIA capensis (Steud.) Nees [family POACEAE], in Linnaea 7: 321 (1832). Type: South Africa, Cape Province, Ecklon 945 (K, iso.!)
Aira capensis Steud. [family POACEAE], in Flora 12: 469 (1829)
Airochloa alopecurus Nees var. brevifolia [family POACEAE], Fl. Afr. Austr.: 424 (1841). Type: South Africa, Cape Province, Witbergen, Drège (K, iso.!)
Koeleria convoluta Steud. [family POACEAE], Syn. Pl. Glum. 1: 293 (1854). Type: Ethiopia, Simen, Mt. Silke, Schimper 689 (K, iso.!)
Airochloa uniflora Hochst. [family POACEAE], in Flora 38: 330 (1855). Type: N. Ethiopia, Mt. Silke, Schimper 671 (TUB, holo.!)
Koeleria uniflora (Hochst.) Schweinf. & Aschers. [family POACEAE], in Schweinf., Beitr. Fl. Aeth.: 300 (1867)
Koeleria convoluta Domin var. densiflora [family POACEAE], in Bibl. Bot. 14 (65): 111 (1907). Type: Ethiopia, Begemedir, Mt. Guna, Schimper (K, iso.!)
Koeleria convoluta Domin var. deusticola [family POACEAE], in Bibl. Bot. 14 (65): 111 (1907). Type: Tanganyika, Kilimanjaro, Uhlig 641 (B, holo.!)
Koeleria convoluta Domin subvar. supina [family POACEAE], in Bibl. Bot. 14 (65): 112 (1907). Type: Tanganyika, Kilimanjaro, Volkens 1351 (K, isosyn.!) & 1353 (B, syn.)
Koeleria wildemanii Domin [family POACEAE], in Bibl. Bot. 14 (65): 112 (1907). Type: Malawi, Mt. Mlanje, Clounie 64 (K, holo.!)
Koeleria cristata (Domin) Peter var. densiflora [family POACEAE], F.D.O.-A. 1: 342 (1936)
Koeleria cristata (Steud.) C. E. Hubbard var. convoluta [family POACEAE], in K.B. 1936: 500 (1936) & in F.T.A. 10: 95 (1937); Ann. list grasses Ug.: 25 (1947); R.K.G.: 29 (1958); I.G.U.: 39 (1960); G.T.: 17 (1965)
Koeleria cristata C. E. Hubbard var. shiraënsis [family POACEAE], in K.B. 1936: 500 (1936) & in F.T.A. 10: 97 (1937). Type: Tanganyika, Kilimanjaro, Shira Mts., Haarer 1122a (K, holo.!)
Koeleria cristata (Nees) C. E. Hubbard var. brevifolia [family POACEAE], in F.T.A. 10: 96 (1937); F.P.S. 3: 477 (1956); Ann. list Nyasaland grasses: 46 (1958); I.G.U.: 39 (1960); G.T.: 17 (1965)
Koeleria cristata (Domin) C. E. Hubbard var. supina [family POACEAE], in F.T.A. 10: 97 (1937); G.T.: 17 (1965)
Koeleria gracilis (Steud.) Hedb. var. convoluta [family POACEAE], A.V.P.: 42 (1957)
Koeleria gracilis (Domin) Hedb. var. supina [family POACEAE], A.V.P.: 42 (1957)
Koeleria pyramidata (Nees) Cuf. var. brevifolia [family POACEAE], in B.J.B.B. 38, Suppl.: 1227 (1968)
Koeleria pyramidata (Steud.) Cuf. var. convoluta [family POACEAE], in B.J.B.B. 38, Suppl.: 1227 (1968)
Information
Densely caespitose perennial; culms 20–80 cm. high, simple, erect, bulbous at the base. Leaf-blades 5–30 cm. long and up to 2 mm. wide, convolute, stiff and wiry, glabrous or pubescent; ligule up to 2 mm. long, membranous; old leaf-sheaths shredding into stiff brown slivers forming a dense tuft about the base of the culm. Panicle linear to lanceolate, 4–15 cm. long, dense and continuous or lobed and interrupted; rhachis pubescent to tomentose. Spikelets 1–3-flowered, green, purplish or palely shining; glumes glabrous or minutely pubescent, acute or acuminate, the lower narrowly lanceolate, shorter than the upper, 1-nerved, the upper elliptic, 3.5–6 mm. long, 1–3-nerved; lemmas elliptic, 3–5 mm. long, 3-nerved, asperulous, acute to acuminate, rarely obtuse or mucronate; anthers (1–)1.8–2.5 mm. long. Fig. 27, p. 80.
Range
DISTR. U1, 3; K2–5; T2, 7, 8 from the Cameroun Republic and Ethiopia southwards to the Cape
Altitude range
1800–5300 m.
Distribution
KENYA Naivasha District Mt. Longonot, 17 Dec. 1950, Bogdan 2864!KENYA Mt. Kenya, 20 Oct. 1943, J. Bally 65! & Teleki valley, 12 Aug. 1948, Hedberg 1873!TANGANYIKA Mbulu District Mt. Hanang below Werther’s Peak, 12 Feb. 1946, Greenway 7724!TANGANYIKA Rungwe District between Kiwira R. and Rungwe Forest Reserve, 26 Oct. 1947, Brenan & Greenway 8223!TANGANYIKA Songea District Lupembe Hill, 10 Jan. 1956, Milne-Redhead & Taylor 8179!UGANDA Karamoja District Napak, June 1950, Eggeling 5890!UGANDA Elgon, Easter 1930, Liebenberg 1696! & 12 Nov. 1933, Tothill 2434!
Notes
Koeleria capensis and the temperate European K. cristata cannot be separated on the basis of spikelet characters, but the decaying leaf-sheaths of the latter are broad, soft and papery, and do not form an erect brush-like tuft. A distinctive form of the species from Kilimanjaro with small anthers, linear panicle, and leaf-blades almost as long as the flowering culm has been separated as var. supina; it is not sharply segregated, and the name has not been formally adopted here. Var. shiraënsis is based on a specimen with unusually long spikelets.

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