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Lasiochloa ciliaris

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Identification
Tribolium ciliare (Stapf) Renvoize [family POACEAE ] (stored under name); Brizopyrum ciliare Stapf [family POACEAE ] Verified by Davidse, G., Dactylis ciliaris L. [family POACEAE ] Lasiochloa ciliaris Kunth [family POACEAE ]
Related name
  • Aluropus not on sheet
  • Lasiochloa hispida
  • Dactylis ascendens
  • Tribolium hispidum
  • Lasiochloa ciliaris
  • Brizopyrum ciliare
  • Tribolium echinatum
  • Alopecurus echinatus
  • Dactylis ciliaris
  • Tribolium ciliare
  • Lasiochloa adscendens
  • Dactylis unrecorded
  • Lasiochloa echinata
  • Erythropogon imbricatum

Flora

Entry for LASIOCHLOA ciliaris Kunth [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
LASIOCHLOA ciliaris Kunth [family POACEAE], Rév. Gram. ii. 555, t. 192;—Kunth, Enum. i. 387; Nees, Fl. Afr. Austr. 432; Durand & Schinz, Consp. Fl. Afr. v. 902 (all in part).
LASIOCHLOA adscendens Kunth [family POACEAE], l.c. 388; Nees, l.c. 435.
LASIOCHLOA hispida Nees var. longifolia [family POACEAE], l.c. 433 (in part).
LASIOCHLOA utriculosa Drège [family POACEAE], in Linnæa, xx. 255, non Nees.
Alopecurus echinatus Thunb. [family POACEAE], Prodr. 19; Fl. Cap. ed. i. 398; ed. Schult. 105.
Dactylis adscendens Schrad. [family POACEAE], in Schult. Syst. Mant. ii. 351; Nees in Linnæa, vii. 323; Steud. Syn. Pl. Glum. i. 299.
Dactylis ciliaris Nees [family POACEAE], in Linnæa, vii. 322, not Thunb.
Hystringium acuminatum Trin. ex Steud. [family POACEAE], Nomencl. ed. ii. ii. 11.
Information
annual, tufted, 6–8 in. high; culms geniculately ascending, slender, 3–4-noded, glabrous, middle internodes exserted, the uppermost 1–2 usually enclosed; sheaths tight or the uppermost subtumid, glabrous and smooth or hispid from fine tubercle-based hairs, bearded at the mouth, striate; ligule a long ciliate rim; blades linear, tapering to an acute point, 1–2 1/2 in. by 1–1 1/2 lin., rather flaccid, flat or convolute, hairy to glabrescent, subglaucous; panicle ovate-oblong to oblong-linear, sometimes lobed, 1/2–1 1/2 in. by 4–5 lin., usually embraced at the base by the 2 uppermost sheaths; branches branched from the base, up to 1/2 in. long, rarely longer; pedicels extremely short, up to 1 lin. long; spikelets broadly obovate, greenish, 2–4-flowered; florets much exceeded by the glumes, these ovate-lanceolate, mucronate-acuminate, 2 lin. long, mucros mostly curved, 3/4–1 1/2 lin. long; valves oblong-lanceolate in profile, acute, obtuse or subemarginate, mucronate, 1 1/2 lin. long, cilia short, rigid; anthers 3/4–1 lin. long; grain over 1/2 lin. by 1/3 lin. null
Distribution
COAST REGION Vaurhynsdorp Div.; Ebenezer, below 100 ft., Drège! Malmesbury Div.; between Greene Kloof and Saldanba Bay, 500 ft., Drège! Cape Div.: Lion Mountain, Ecklon, 957 in part! near Lion Battery, Wolley Dod, 3109! Wynberg Park, Wolley Dod, 1815! Swellendam Div.; mountain ridges along the lower part of Zonder Einde River, Zeyher, 4588!SOUTH AFRICA without precise locality, Thunberg!
Notes
Nees indicates L. ciliaris also from Stellenbosch and George Div., and several more of the specimens quoted under L. hispida and L. adscendens also very likely belong here.

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