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Leptochloa rupestris

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Identification
Leptochloa uniflora Hochst. ex A.Rich. [family POACEAE ] Leptochloa rupestris C.E.Hubb. [family POACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Hubbard, C. E.,
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Flora

Entry for LEPTOCHLOA rupestris C. E. Hubb. [family POACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Somalia
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Somalia, Vol 4, (1995) Author: by T. A. Cope [updated by M. Thulin 2008]
Names
LEPTOCHLOA rupestris C. E. Hubb. [family POACEAE], (1941);. type: N1, “Wobleh”, Gillett 4981 (K holo.).
Information
Slender perennial with long straggling wiry rhizomes bearing tufts of leafy branches at the nodes, up to 60 cm high; leaves narrowly lanceolate, acute, widely diverging or deflexed. Inflorescence 6–25 cm long, composed of numerous very slender, straight or slightly flexuous racemes, each 2–5 cm long, scattered along the main axis and bearing clearly secund spikelets. Spikelets 1.6–2.4 mm long, 1-flowered, laterally compressed; glumes subequal, as long as the spikelet, only slightly exceeding the floret, if at all; lemma keeled, minutely hairy on the nerves, entire, acute. Caryopsis not known.
Range
N1
Altitude range
1300–1700 m.
Distribution
SOMALIA Gillett 4838, 4981; Wood 72/95.
Distribution (external)
southern Ethiopia
Uganda
Kenya
Arabia (Yemen)

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