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Melica falx

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Identification
Melica falx L.f. [family POACEAE ] Verified by unknown, Harpochloa falx (L.f.) Kuntze [family POACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Unknown,
Related name
  • Harpochloa falx
  • Melica falx
  • Harpechloa capensis
  • Cynosurus falcatus
  • Melica indet.
  • Dactyloctenium falcatum
  • Chloris falcata

Flora

Entry for HARPECHLOA capensis Kunth [family ]
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
HARPECHLOA capensis Kunth [family ], Rév. Gram. i. 92;—Kunth, Enum. i. 274; Suppl. 225; Steud. Syn. Pl. Glum. i. 203; Durand & Schinz, Consp. Fl. Afr. v. 858.
Melica Falx Linn. f. [family POACEAE], Suppl. 109.
Cynosurus falcatus Thunb. [family POACEAE], Prodr. 23.
Chloris falcata Sw. [family POACEAE], in Berl. Ges. Naturf. Freunde, Neu. Schr. iii. 160, t. 1, fig. 1; Thunb. Fl. Cap. ed. i. 408; ed. Schult. 109.
Dactyloctenium falcatum Willd. [family POACEAE], Enum. Hort. Berol. 1030.
Campulosus hirsutus Desv. [family POACEAE], in Nouv. Bull. Soc. Philom. ii. (1810) 189.
Campulosus falcatus Beauv. [family POACEAE], Agrost. 157.
Campuloa hirsuta Desv. [family POACEAE], in Journ. Bot. iii. (1813) 69.
Eleusine falcata Spreng. [family POACEAE], Syst. i. 349.
Information
culms erect, 3/4–2 ft. long, compressed below, 2-noded, woolly below the spike, otherwise usually glabrous, upper 2 internodes very long, exserted; leaves mostly crowded at the base; basal sheaths imbricate, firm, persistent, compressed, keeled, hairy or glabrescent, bearded at the mouth, striate, the uppermost slightly tumid, glabrous; ligule a ciliolate rim; blades linear, acute to obtuse, 3–10 in. by 1/2–1 1/2 lin. when flattened out, glaucous, glabrous or hairy to woolly, smooth; spikes 1–2 1/2 in. long to 4 lin. broad; rhachis ciliate or woolly; spikelets 3–3 1/2 lin. long; lower glume ovate, acute to obtuse, 1 1/2–1 3/4 lin. long, upper 3–3 1/2 lin. long; valve of the hermaphrodite floret 3–3 1/2 lin. long; pale ciliate along the margins and hairy near the tip, keels scaberulous; lodicules 1/3 lin. long; anthers 1 1/2–1 3/4 lin. long; upper valves and anthers smaller; grain 1 1/2 lin. long. null
Distribution
CENTRAL REGION Somerset Div.; plateau on the summit of Bosch Berg, near Somerset East, 4800 ft., MacOwan & Bolus, Herb. Norm. Aust.-Afr., 790! Graaff Reinet Div.; top of Kaudeveld Mountain, 5000 ft., Bolus, 1373!COAST REGION Swellendam Div.; Mund. Mossel Bay Div.; between Duyker River and Gauritz River, Burchell, 6402! Uniondale Div.; Lange Kloof, Ecklon. Uitenhage Div.; Van Stadensberg Range, nearest to Galgebosch, Burchell, 4729! Port Elizabeth Div.; Port Elizabeth, E.S.C.A. Herb., 95! Alexandria Div.; between Sunday River and Bushmans River, Ecklon; near Addo, Drège; northern slopes of the Zuur Berg Range, 2500–3000 ft., Drège! Albany Div.; mountains near Grahamstown, 2200–2400 ft., MacOwan, 1293! Burke! Stockenstrom Div.; above Philipton near the sources of the Kat River, Zeyher! Kat Berg, 3000–4000 ft., Drège. Queenstown Div.; Finchams Nek, near Queenstown, 3900 ft., Galpin, 2370! British Caffraria, Cooper, 3357!EASTERN REGION Tembuland; near Bazeia, Baur, 283! Natal; near Pieter Maritzburg, 1000–2000 ft., Krauss, 445! Riet Vlei, 4000–5000 ft., Buchanan, 178! Mooi River, 4000 ft., Wood, 7317! and without precise locality, Buchanan, 57! 93!KALAHARI REGION Orange Free State, Cooper, 916! Transvaal; Lydenburg District, Spitzkop Goldmine, Wilms, 1662!SOUTH AFRICA without precise locality, Thunberg!

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