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Lappago racemosa

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Name

Identification
Tragus biflorus Schult. [family POACEAE ] (stored under name); Lappago biflora Roxb. [family POACEA ] Cenchrus racemosus L. [family POACEAE ] Lappago racemosa (L.) Honck. [family POACEA ]
Related name
  • Cenchrus racemosus
  • Lappago racemosa
  • Lappago biflora
  • Tragus major
  • Tragus occidentalis
  • Tragus racemosus
  • Tragus koelerioides
  • Cenchrus indet.
  • Lappago decipiens
  • Tragus biflorus
  • Tragus berteronianus

Flora

Entry for TRAGUS racemosus All. [family ]
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
TRAGUS racemosus All. [family ], Fl. Pedem. ii. 241;—Beauv. Agrost. 23, t. vi. fig. 13; Nees, Agrost. Bras. 287; Fl. Afr. Austr. 73; Doell in Mart. Fl. Bras. ii. ii. 122; Hack. in Engl. Jahrb. xi. 397; Durand & Schinz, Consp. Fl. Afr. v. 733; Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. vii. 97.
TRAGUS berteronianus Schult. [family ], Mant. ii. 205.
TRAGUS berteroanus Durand & Schinz [family ], l.c. 733.
TRAGUS occidentalis Nees [family ], ll.cc. 286, and 72 (for the greatest part) respectively.
TRAGUS brevicaulis Boiss. [family ], Diagn. Pl. Or. Sér. 1, xiii. 44.
Cenchrus racemosus Linn. [family POACEAE], Spec. Pl. 1049; Schreb. Beschreib. Graes. 45, t. iv.
Lappago racemosa Honck. [family POACEAE], Syn. Pl. Germ. i. 440; Host, Gram. Austr. i. t. 36; Sibth. Fl. Graec. ii. t. 101; Kunth, Rév. Gram. t. 120; Enum. i. 170; Suppl. 124; Reichb. Ic. Fl. Germ. i. t. 30; Steud. Syn. Pl. Glum. i. 112.
Lappago aliena Spreng. [family POACEAE], Neue Entdeck. iii. 15; Steud. l.c. 112.
Lappago phleoides Fig. & De Not. [family POACEAE], in Act. Acad. Torin. 1854, 360 and 387, t. 38, fig. 1–12, and t. 37, fig. 1–12.
Lappago decipiens Fig. & De Not. [family POACEAE], in Act. Acad. Torin. 1854, 360 and 387, t. 38, fig. 1–12, and t. 37, fig. 1–12.
Information
annual or subperennial (?); culms fascicled, simple or branched with the branches often fascicled and densely leafy, geniculate, ascending often from a decumbent base or wholly decumbent, slender, from a few inches to 1 ft. long, glabrous or pubescent near the panicle, smooth, 3–5-noded, intermediate internodes exserted, uppermost 1 or 2 usually enclosed, and from less than 1 to 4 in. long; lowest sheaths short, broad, pallid, the following more or less herbaceous, rather loose, uppermost tumid, usually embracing the base of the panicle; blades linear to lanceolate, acute, 1/3–2 in. by 1–2 lin., flat or wavy, rigid, very glaucous, closely striate; panicle 1–5 in. long, slender; axis straight or slightly wavy, pubescent; branches very close or the lowest distant, very short, 2–3-spiculate, sometimes minutely continued beyond the uppermost spikelets; spikelets facing each other when paired, 1 1/2–2 lin. long, one of a cluster often reduced; lower glume very minute, up to 1/4 lin. long, hyaline, ciliolate or quite suppressed; upper glume slightly curved, involute, completely enveloping the floret, strongly 5-ribbed, thin between the ribs, these with rows of stout hooked spines; valve lanceolate-oblong, apiculate or mucronulate, 1–1 1/2 lin. long, thinly membranous, very minutely pubescent, faintly 3-nerved; pale subacute, obscurely 2-nerved; anthers ellipsoid, 1/6– 1/8 lin. long; grain oblong to obovoid-ellipsoid, subterete, 1/2 lin. long. null
Range
Throughout most warm regions.
Distribution
CENTRAL REGION Graaff Reinet Div.; stony places near Graaff Reinet, 2500 ft., Bolus, 554! Albert Div.; without precise locality, Cooper, 640!COAST REGION Uitenhage Div.; without precise locality, Zeyher! Albany Div.; Bothas Hill, MacOwan, 571! Queenstown Div.; plains near Queenstown, 3500 ft., Galpin, 2350! Wodehouse Div.; Indwe, 3000 ft., Baur, 979!EASTERN REGION Natal; banks of Tugela River near Colenso, 3000 ft., Wood, 4417! banks of lower Tugela River, 600 ft., Buchanan, 175! and without precise locality, Gerrard, 673! Delagoa Bay, Forbes!KALAHARI REGION Griqualand West, Hay Div.; Griqua Town, Burchell, 1938! between Griqua Town and Witte Water, Burchell, 1973/2! sandy places near Kimberley, 4000 ft., Marloth, 746! 858! Orange Free State, near Boshoff, Barber!
Notes
The figure in Beauvois, Agrost. l.c., represents the anthers as linear and as long as in T. major; but this is evidently an error. I never found them otherwise than as described above, and so they are figured by all authors cited, except Beauvois.

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