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Leersia hexandra

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Identification
Leersia hexandra Sw. [family POACEAE ]
Related name
  • Leersia hexandra
Common name
  • olaquicom (EPdS; JDES) (GUINEA-BISSAU, PEPEL), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 2
  • kamétéô (K&A) (SENEGAL, MANDING-MANDINKA), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 2
  • mutut (K&A) (SENEGAL, BANYUN), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 2
  • abẹ́ko (Dawodu; JMD) (NIGERIA, YORUBA), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 2
  • herbe rasoir., Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 2
  • uacúndê (JDES) (GUINEA-BISSAU, BIDYOGO), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 2
  • sine-ô (EPdS; JDES) (GUINEA-BISSAU, MANDING-MANDINKA), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 2
  • rice grass; cut grass (on account of the backward sloping hooks on the leaves which can injure the skin)., Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 2
  • madariki (Kennedy) (NIGERIA, HAUSA), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 2
  • yaudeho (JMD) (NIGERIA, FULA-FULFULDE (Nigeria)), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 2
  • nféndè (EPdS; JDES) unféndè (JDES) (GUINEA-BISSAU, BALANTA), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 2

Flora

Entry for LEERSIA hexandra Sw. [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
LEERSIA hexandra Sw. [family POACEAE], Prodr. Veg. Ind. Occ.: 21 (1788); E. A. Pasture Plants 1: 46 (1926); Ann. list grasses Ug.: 26 (1947); Imp. grassl. pl. Kenya: 47 (1951); F.P.N.A. 3: 205 (1955); Troupin, Fl. Garamba 1: 51 (1956); F.P.S. 3: 479 (1956); R.K.G.: 35 (1958); Ann. list Nyasaland grasses: 46 (1958); I.G.U.: 39 (1960); G.T.: 50 (1965). Type: Jamaica, Swartz (BM, holo.!)
Asprella hexandra (Sw.) Roem. & Schult. [family ], Syst. Veg. 2: 267 (1817)
Leersia abyssinica A. Rich. [family POACEAE], Tent. Fl. Abyss. 2: 356 (1851). Type: Ethiopia, Tigre, Shire, Schimper 1823 (K, iso.!)
Leersia capensis C. Mueller [family POACEAE], in Bot. Zeit. 14: 345 (1856). Type: South Africa, Cape Province, Alexander (K, iso.!)
Oryza hexandra (Sw.) Doell [family POACEAE], in Mart., Fl. Bras. 2 (2): 10 (1871)
Homalocenchrus hexandrus (Sw.) Kuntze [family POACEAE], Rev. Gen. Pl. 2: 777 (1891)
Information
Perennial; culms 30 cm. to 1 m. high, slender, often decumbent, ascending from a creeping rhizome, silky pubescent at the nodes. Leaf-blades mostly 10–20 cm. long and 4–8 mm. broad, flat, painfully retrorsely scabrid on the midrib beneath; ligule 1–2 mm. long, asymmetric, truncate or obliquely truncate. Panicle narrowly elliptic to oblong, 5–12 cm. long and 1–4 cm. wide; branches ascending, bearing spikelets almost to the base. Spikelets oblong, (3.2–)3.4–4.8(–5.2) mm. long and (1–)1.2–1.4(–1.7) mm. broad, pale or purplish; lemma conspicuously pectinate-ciliate, or rarely spinulose, on the keel. Fig. 9/11.
Range
DISTR. U1–4; K3–7; T1–8; Z; P throughout the tropics
Altitude range
up to 2000 m.
Distribution
KENYA Nairobi District Nairobi R. valley 24 km. E. of Nairobi, 16 July 1951, Bogdan 3132!KENYA Central Kavirondo District between Kongao Market and Kerebi, 13 Dec. 1964, Gillett 16354!KENYA Kericho District Sotik, 25 Nov. 1945, Bally 4662!TANGANYIKA Musoma District Bologonjwa R., 19 Aug. 1962, Greenway 10763!TANGANYIKA Iringa District 6 km. N. of Iringa on Great North Road, 5 Feb. 1962, Polhill & Paulo 1357!TANGANYIKA Songea District 8 km. W. of Songea, 9 Feb. 1956, Milne-Redhead & Taylor 8664!UGANDA Ankole District Butale, 13 Aug. 1936, A. S. Thomas 2041!UGANDA Mbale, 6 June 1927, Snowden 1104!UGANDA Masaka District Sese Is., Bugala I., Kalangala, 25 Feb. 1945, Greenway & A. S. Thomas 7182!ZANZIBAR Zanzibar I., Kibweni Palace, 19 Nov. 1943, R. M. Davies 24! & Kisimbani, 2 Jan. 1962, Faulkner 2971! & [Zanzibar–]Chwaka road, 1 Sept. 1930, Vaughan 1482!
Notes
Resembles L. angustifolia Prod., a species from the Sudan, Congo and Central African Republics with smaller spikelets (mostly 2.2–2.8 mm. long) and triangular ligule.

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