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Lagurus cylindricus

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Identification
Arundo epigejos Forssk., non L. [family GRAMINEAE ] Verified by Not on Sheet, Imperata cylindrica (L.) Räuschel [family GRAMINEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by P. Ascherson, 1881 Lagurus cylindricus Not on sheet [family GRAMINEAE ] Verified by Not on Sheet,
Related name
  • Imperata cylindrica
  • Arundo sp.
  • Lagurus cylindricus
  • Arundo epigejos
  • Imperata arundinacea

Flora

Entry for IMPERATA arundinacea Cyr. [family POACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Capensis
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Capensis, Vol 7, page 310, (1900) Author: (By O. STAPF.)
Names
IMPERATA arundinacea Cyr. [family POACEAE], Pl. Rar. Neap. fasc. ii. 26, t. 11, and in Usteri, Ann. Bot. xiii. 61;—Host, Gram. Austr. iv. t. 40; Kunth, Enum. i. 477; Trin. Androp. in Mém. Ac. Pétersb. sér. vi. ii. 330; Steud. Syn. Pl. Glum. i. 405; Reichb. Ic. Fl. Germ. i. fig. 1504; Anders. in Öfvers. K. Vet. Akad. Stockh. 1855, 159; Hack. Androp. in DC. Monogr. Phan. vi. 92; Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. vii. 106
IMPERATA cylindrica Beauv. [family POACEAE], Agrost. 165, t. v. fig. 1, Explan. planch. 5; Durand & Schinz, Consp. Fl. Afr. v. 693.
Lagurus cylindricus Linn. [family POACEAE], Syst. ed. x. ii. 878.
Saccharum cylindricum Lamk. [family POACEAE], Encycl. i. 594; Illustr. i. 155, t. 40, fig. 2.
Calamagrostis Lagurus Koeler [family POACEAE], Descr. Gram. 112.
Information
culms 1 1/2–4 ft. long, erect, 3–4-noded, glabrous; sheaths rather loose, glabrous, the lowest at length usually breaking up into fibres; ligules membranous, short, hairy; blades linear, from a very narrow base, tapering to an acute point, the lowest 1/2–1 ft. by 1–2 lin., the upper very short, rigid, usually convolute, glabrous or bearded at the base, smooth below, margins scabrid, midrib stout; panicle spiciform, 2–8 in. long, cylindric, very dense; branches and branchlets very numerous, crowded, appressed; pedicels fine with clavate tips, 1/2–1 1/2 lin. long., with long fine hairs below; spikelets about 2 1/2 lin. long, pale or purplish, enveloped by hairs 5–6 lin. long; glumes ovate-oblong to ovate-lanceolate, obtuse or subobtuse with the tips ciliate, usually 5–7-nerved; lower valve oblong, obtuse, denticulate, ciliate, nerveless, upper ovate, acute, glabrous, nerveless; anthers 1 1/2–2 1/4 lin. long; stigmas 1 1/2–2 1/2 lin. long, purple. null
Range
Var. β occurs also through tropical Africa. Var. γ in the coast region of East Africa, in the Comoros and throughout Southern and Eastern Asia to Polynesia and Australia. The type is limited to the Mediterranean Region as far as Turkestan and North-west India.
Distribution
COAST REGION Var. β: Clanwilliam Div.; Olifants River, Ecklon and Zeyher! Cape Div.; Constantia, Bergius! Cape Peninsula, Muizenberg Vlei, Dodd 2360! Humansdorp Div.; hills near the Kromme River, in bush, Drège! Albany Div., Zeyher, 873! British Kaffraria, Cooper, 295!EASTERN REGION Var. β: Tembuland; Bazeia, Baur, 321.! Natal; by streams near Pietermaritzburg, Krauss, 260! Umpumulo to the coast, Buchanan, 164! Var. γ: Pondoland; between Umtata River and St. Johns River, Drège, 4253! Natal; Umtente, Sutherland! near Ladysmith, Gerrard, 158! and without precise locality, Gerrard, 478! Buchanan, 113!KALAHARI REGION Var. β: Griqualand West; Upper Campbell, Burchell, 1833! Bechuanaland; Hamapery near Kuruman, Burchell, 2509! Transvaal; Pretoria, Rehmann, 4777! Matebe Valley, Holub!
Notes
These varieties and the type, although on the whole pretty distinct within their areas, often pass into each other, chiefly along the confines of their areas, or they seem to lose their distinctive characters under particular local conditions, when their separation becomes almost impossible.

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