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Leptaspis cochleata

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Name

Identification
Leptaspis cochleata Thwaites [family POACEAE ]
Related name
  • Leptaspis cochleata
Common name
  • pini gon (Har.) (LIBERIA, MANO), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 2
  • ε-suta (NWT) (SIERRA LEONE, TEMNE), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 2
  • hongi (NWT) (SIERRA LEONE, MENDE), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 2

Flora

Entry for LEPTASPIS cochleata Thwaites [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
LEPTASPIS cochleata Thwaites [family POACEAE], Enum. Pl. Zeyl.: 357 (1864); Ann. list grasses Ug.: 39 (1947); F.P.N.A. 3: 208 (1955); F.P.S. 3: 482 (1956); G.T.: 51 (1965). Type: Ceylon, Thwaites C.P. 896 (K, holo.!)
LEPTASPIS conchifera Hack. [family POACEAE], in Bol. Soc. Brot. 5: 211 (1887). Type: S. Tomé, Moller & Quintas 148 (K, iso.!)
LEPTASPIS comorensis A. Camus [family POACEAE], in Bull. Mus. Hist. Nat. Paris 30: 513 (1924). Type: Comoro Is., Humblot 321 (K, iso.!)
Information
Culms 30–100 cm. high, ascending from a shallow rhizome. Leaf-blades oblong to oblong-oblanceolate, 10–30 cm. long and 2.5–6 cm. broad, abruptly acute at the tip, asymmetrically narrowed into a false petiole 1–4 cm. long; ligule very short, scarious, ciliolate. Panicle loose, up to 45 cm. long and 20 cm. wide; branches 2–3 in a whorl. Male spikelets 4 mm. long, the glumes half as long. Female spikelets with ovate glumes 2–3 mm. long; lemma 4–6 mm. long, reddish, shell-like, prominently 5-ribbed, the pore lateral. Fig. 7, p. 20.
Range
DISTR. U2–4; K7; T1, 3, 6 throughout tropical Africa, and eastwards through Madagascar and Ceylon to Malesia and the Solomon Is.
Altitude range
400–1500 m.
Distribution
KENYA Kwale District Shimba Hills, Mwele Mdogo Forest, 5 Feb. 1953, Drummond & Hemsley 1127!TANGANYIKA E. Usambara Mts., Amani, 31 Dec. 1928, Greenway 1078! & 24 Feb. 1950, Verdcourt 87!TANGANYIKA Morogoro District Turiani, Manyangu Forest, Nov. 1953, Semsel 1410!UGANDA Bunyoro District Budongo Forest, Oct. 1937, Eggeling 3434!UGANDA Toro District Kibale Forest, 14 July 1938, A. S. Thomas 2261!UGANDA Busoga District 8 km. W. of Busia, 19 Nov. 1951, Trapnell 2196!

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