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Miscanthidium fuscescens

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Name

Identification
Miscanthidium fuscescens Pilg. [family GRAMINEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on sheet.,
Related name
  • Sorghastrum rigidifolium
  • Miscanthidium fuscescens
  • Sorghastrum fuscescens

Flora

Entry for SORGHASTRUM fuscescens (Pilg.) W.D. Clayton [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
SORGHASTRUM fuscescens (Pilg.) W.D. Clayton [family POACEAE], in K.B. 30: 509 (1975). Type: Tanzania, Njombe District, Msima, Schlieben 1010 (K, iso.!)
Miscanthidium fuscescens Pilg. [family POACEAE], in N.B.G.B. 11: 806 (1933); G.T.: 93 (1965)
Information
Tufted perennial; culms 80–200 cm. high. Leaf-blades 10–60 cm. long, 2–7 mm. wide. Panicle 15–30 cm. long; racemes straggling, 3–10 cm. long, composed of up to 15 spikelet pairs, the pedicels occasionally barren but mostly bearing a spikelet similar to the sessile. Spikelets lanceolate, 5.5–7 mm. long; callus rounded, shortly bearded; glumes coriaceous, pilose; upper lemma bilobed, with a bigeniculate awn 12–20 mm. long from the sinus.
Range
DISTR. T4, 7
Altitude range
1800–2200 m.
Distribution
TANZANIA Iringa District Mufindi, 7 May 1968, Renvoize & Abdallah 1988! & Iringa, 1935, Emson 456!TANZANIA Njombe District Lupembe, 8 Aug. 1933, Greenway 3516!
Distribution (external)
Zambia
Notes
In this and the following species many, if not most, of the pedicels bear perfect spikelets. Although differing from typical members of Sorghastrum in this respect, they conform in most other characters and would be misplaced in any other genus.

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