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Oropetium thomaeum

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Identification
Oropetium thomaeum (L.f.) Trin. [family POACEAE ]
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Entry for OROPETIUM thomaeum (L.f.) Trin. [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
OROPETIUM thomaeum (L.f.) Trin. [family POACEAE], (1820).
Information
Dwarf, densely tufted perennial up to 7 cm high. Raceme straight or curved, 1–4 cm long; rhachis tough, always tightly wavy and somewhat spongy. Spikelets in opposite ranks, deeply embedded; upper glume acute, 1.8–2.5 mm long; lemma 0.7–1 mm long, obscurely mucronulate.
Range
S1 Ethiopia, Kenya and Tanzania to Pakistan, India, Burma and Sri Lanka.
Altitude range
c. 200 m.
Distribution
SOMALIA Alstrup & Michelsen 157; Rose Innes 683.

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