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Megastachya mucronata

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Name

Identification
Megastachya mucronata (Poir.) P.Beauv. [family POACEAE ]
Related name
  • Megastachya mucronata
Common name
  • ilulu ọkhankwọ (?ọkpankwọ) (NWT) oke ako ọzọ (NWT) (NIGERIA, IGBO), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 2

Flora

Entry for MEGASTACHYA mucronata (Poir.) P. Beauv. [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
MEGASTACHYA mucronata (Poir.) P. Beauv. [family POACEAE], Ess. Agrost.: 74, 167 (1812); R.K.G.: 14 (1958); Ann. list Nyasaland grasses: 48 (1958); I.G.U.: 41 (1960); G.T.: 13 (1965). Type: ? Africa, specimen in Herb. Jussieu (P, holo.)
Poa mucronata Poir. [family POACEAE], Encycl. 5: 91 (1804)
Eragrostis jardinii Steud. [family POACEAE], Syn. Pl. Glum. 1: 269 (1854). Type: “Guinea”, Jardin (P, holo.!)
Centotheca mucronata (Poir.) Kuntze [family POACEAE], Rev. Gen. Pl. 2: 765 (1891); Ann. list grasses Ug.: 8 (1947)
Centotheca maxima Peter [family POACEAE], F.D.O.-A. 1: 340, Anh.: 113 (1936). Type: Tanganyika, Uzaramo District, Peter 31509 (B, holo. †)
Information
Tufted annual 40–90 cm. high. Leaf-blades narrowly lanceolate, typically 10–15 cm. long and 1–2 em. broad, cordate and amplexicaul, acuminate, glabrous or scaberulous, the veins transversely connected; ligule hyaline, 0.5 mm. long. Panicle oblong, 15–20 cm. long and 10–15 cm. wide, the branches at first ascending, later spreading. Spikelets narrowly oblong, 7–14 mm. long and 2 mm. wide (but sometimes much shorter and only 2–3-flowered in poorly developed panicles), borne on slender pedicels a few mm. long; glumes 1.5–2 mm. long, 3-nerved, similar to the lemmas in shape and texture; lemmas ovate in side view, broadly elliptic when flattened, 2–2.5 mm. long, with broad hyaline margins, obtuse or emarginate, with or without a mucro up to 0.3 mm. long; palea elliptic, ciliolate on the keels. Fig. 52, p. 162.
Range
DISTR. U2, 4; K7; T1, 3, 6, 8 throughout tropical Africa and in South Africa (Natal)
Altitude range
sea-level to 2000 m.
Distribution
KENYA Kwale District 13 km. WSW. of Gazi, Buda, Mafisini Forest, 16 Aug. 1953, Drummond & Hemsley 3835! & Shimba Hills 48 km. SW. of Mombasa, 11 Jan. 1954, Bogdan 3912!KENYA Lamu District Mambasasa, Utwani Forest Reserve, 16 Oct. 1957, Greenway & Rawlins 9347!TANGANYIKA E. Usambara Mts., Amani, 27 May 1961, Semsei 3215! & Kwamkoro, Mar. 1962, Procter 2017!TANGANYIKA Pangani District Msubugwe Forest, 16 Nov. 1955, Milne-Redhead & Taylor 7303!UGANDA Kigezi District Ishasha Gorge, Feb. 1945, Eggeling ! & Ishasha Gorge, Kayonza Forest Reserve, 5 Aug. 1960, Paulo 663!UGANDA Masaka District Nkose I., 22 Jan. 1956, Dawkins 845!
Distribution (external)
Madagascar

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