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Orthoclada africana

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Name

Identification
Orthoclada africana C.E.Hubb. [family GRAMINEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on sheet.,
Related name
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Flora

Entry for ORTHOCLADA africana C. E. 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, Part (Part 1), page 1, (1970) Author: W. D. Clayton
Names
ORTHOCLADA africana C. E. Hubbard [family POACEAE], in Hook., Ic. Pl. 35, t. 3419 (1940); G.T.: 13 (1965). Type: Zambia, Mwinilunga District, Luakera Falls, Patterson (K, holo.!)
Information
Perennial, from a creeping rhizome; culms 80–180 cm. high. Leaf-blades narrowly oblong-lanceolate, 12–25 cm. long and 2–5 cm. wide, abruptly contracted to a false petiole 5–17 mm. long, acuminate, glabrous or minutely pubescent, the veins transversely connected; ligule scarious, 0.3 mm. long, ciliolate. Panicle ovate to broadly ovate, 25–35 cm. long, open, the branches verticillate and obliquely spreading. Spikelets narrowly oblong, 3–5-flowered, 8–12 mm. long; glumes 3.5–5 mm. long, 3–5-nerved, resembling the lemmas; lemmas obliquely lanceolate in side view, elliptic when flattened, 4.5–5.5 mm. long, obtuse; palea narrowly oblong; stamens 3. Fig. 53, p. 164.
Range
DISTR. T4
Altitude range
1500 m.
Distribution
TANGANYIKA Kigoma District Kabogo Mts., 31 May 1963, Azuma in Kyoto Univ. Exped. 543!
Distribution (external)
Congo Republic (Katanga)
Zambia

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