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Melinis trichotoma

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Name

Identification
Melinis trichotoma Mez [family POACEAE ] Tricholaena monachne (Trin.) Stapf & C.E.Hubb. [family POACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Hubbard,C.E.,
Related name
  • Melinis trichotoma
  • Tricholaena monachne

Flora

Entry for TRICHOLAENA monachne (Trin.) Stapf & Hubbard [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, page 451, (1982) Author: W. D. CLAYTON and S.A. RENVOIZE
Names
TRICHOLAENA monachne (Trin.) Stapf & Hubbard [family POACEAE], in F.T.A. 9: 909 (1930); R.K.G.: 50 (1958); Ann. list Nyasaland grasses: 63 (1958); G.T.: 81 (1965); Clayton in F.W.T.A., ed. 2, 3: 455 (1972). Type: Réunion, Jacquin (LE, fragm.!)
Panicum monachne Trin. [family POACEAE], in Spreng., Neue Entd. 2: 86 (1821)
Panicum madagascariense Spreng. [family POACEAE], Syst. Veg. 1: 317 (1825). Type: Madagascar (B, holo., K, microfiche!)
Aira bicolor Schumach. [family POACEAE], Beskr. Guin. Pl.: 65 (1827). Type: Ghana, Thonning (C, holo.!)
Panicum gracillimum K. Schum. [family POACEAE], in E.J. 24: 331 (1897), non Lams.-Schribn. (1896). Type: Angola, Dondo, Mechow 25 (B, holo.)
Panicum madagascariense Rendle var. brevispiculum [family POACEAE], Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw. 2: 183 (1899). Types: Angola, Loanda, Museque de Luiz Gomes, Welwitsch 7457 & Cazanga I., Welwitsch 7297 (both K, isosyn.!) & several other syntypes
Tricholaena glabra Stapf [family POACEAE], in Fl. Cap. 7: 446 (1899). Types: South Africa, Natal, Tugela R., Buchanan 259 & Potgieter’s Rust, Nelson 23 (both K, syn.!)
Melinis glabra (Stapf) Hack. [family POACEAE], in Öest. Bot. Zeitschr. 51: 464 (1901)
Melinis monachne (Trin.) Pilg. [family POACEAE], in E.J. 33: 51 (1902)
Tricholaena arenaria Hack. var. semiglabra [family POACEAE], in Viert. Nat. Ges. Zürich 57: 533 (1912). Type: Angola, Penedo, Gossweiler 1560 (W, holo.!)
Melinis trichotoma Mez [family POACEAE], in E.J. 57: 200 (1921). Types: Namibia, Okatongeama, Dinter 1572 (K, isosyn.!) & Okahandja, Waibel 135 (K, isosyn.!) & without locality, Morgenstern (B, syn.) & Berthling 4 (B, syn.)
Xyochlaena monachne (Trin.) Stapf [family POACEAE], in Hook., Ic. Pl. 31, t. 3098 (1922)
Eremochlamys arenaria Peter [family POACEAE], F.D.O.-A. 1, Anh.: 19, fig. 18/1 (1930). Type: Angola, Lobito Bay, Peter 30069 (B, holo.†)
Eremochlamys littoralis Peter [family POACEAE], F.D.O.-A. 1, Anh.: 20, fig. 18/2 (1930). Type: Tanzania, Uzaramo District, Dar es Salaam–Mbagala [Mbagara], Peter 45097 (B, holo.†) & Tanga District, Mtotohovu, Braun 1378 (K, para.!)
Tricholaena delicatula Stapf & Hubbard [family POACEAE], in F.T.A. 9: 911 (1930); Fl. Agrost. Congo Belge 2: 309 (1934). Types: Angola, Benguela, Gossweiler 1665 & 1666 & Loanda, Gossweiler 269 & Lobito Bay, Pearson 2296 (all K, syn.!)
Tricholaena bicolor (Schumach.) C.E. Hubbard [family POACEAE], in F.T.A. 10: 88 (1937)
Tricholaena monachne J.G. Anderson var. annua [family POACEAE], in Kirkia 1: 103 (1961). Type: Namibia, Swakopmund to Usakos, de Winter 3205 (K, iso.!)
Information
Short-lived perennial; culms 30–120 cm. high, erect or ascending. Leaf-blades sometimes flat, commonly involute, 5–20 cm. long, 1–6 mm. wide. Panicle broadly ovate, 6–20 cm. long, open, with slender branches and pedicels. Spikelets 1.5–2.5 mm. long; lower glume a tiny truncate scale up to 0.1 mm. long (rarely triangular and up to 0.5 mm.); upper glume ovate, glabrous, subacute; lower lemma broadly ovate, glabrous or obscurely pubescent on the margins (sometimes distinctly so in plants from western Africa), obtuse to slightly emarginate. Fig. 123.
Range
DISTR. K4, 7; T1, 3, 6, 7 tropical and South Africa
Altitude range
0–1200 m.
Distribution
KENYA Nairobi, 29 Mar. 1906, Linton 264!KENYA Mombasa, Feb. 1876, Hildebrandt 1955!TANZANIA Mwanza District Massanza I, Ihale, 15 Apr. 1953, Tanner 1462!TANZANIA Uzaramo District Dar es Salaam, B.D. Burtt 171!TANZANIA Iringa District Mbagi, Feb. 1963, Procter 2383!
Distribution (external)
Madagascar
the Mascarene Is
Notes
Specimens from western Africa tend to have shorter and hairier spikelets than those from the east. They have been separated as T. bicolor, but variation appears to be quite continuous.

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