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Oryza breviligulata

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Identification
Oryza breviligulata A.Chev. & Roehr. [family POACEAE ] Verified by Not on sheet, Oryza barthii A.Chev. [family POACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on sheet,
Related name
  • Oryza silvestris
  • Oryza breviligulata
  • Oryza barthii

Flora

Entry for ORYZA barthii A. Chev. [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
ORYZA barthii A. Chev. [family POACEAE], in Bull. Mus. Hist. Nat. Paris 16: 405 (1911). Type: Chad, Baguirmi region, Chevalier 9615 (P, holo., K, iso.!)
ORYZA silvestris A. Chev. var. barthii [family POACEAE], in Bull. Mus. Hist. Nat. Paris 16: 405 (1911), nom. nud.
ORYZA breviligulata A. Chev. & Roehr. [family POACEAE], in Compt. Rend. Acad. Sci. 159: 560 (1914); F.P.S. 3: 494 (1956); Tateoka in Bot. Mag. Tokyo 75: 457 (1962); G.T. 49 (1965), nom. illegit. Type: Chad, Chevalier 9615 (P, lecto., K, isolecto.!)
ORYZA mezii Prod. [family POACEAE], in Bot. Archiv. 1: 223 (1922). Type: Sudan Republic, Bahr el Ghazal, Jur, Schweinfurth 2322 (K, iso.!)
ORYZA stapfii Roshev. [family POACEAE], in Bull. Appl. Bot. Pl. Br. 27 (4): 51 (1931). Type: Mali, Chevalier 642 (K, lecto.!)
ORYZA perennis (A. Chev.) A. Chev. subsp. barthii [family POACEAE], in Rev. Bot. Appliq. 12: 1028 (1932)
Information
Annual; culms up to 1.5 m. high, erect or decumbent at the base and rooting at the lower nodes. Leaf-blades up to 45 cm. long and 1.5 cm. broad; ligule 2–6 mm. long, glabrous, truncate. Panicle 20–30 cm. long, rather dense, the branches erect. Spikelets oblong to narrowly oblong, 7–11 mm. long, hispid, deciduous, obliquely articulated with the pedicel; sterile lemmas lanceolate, 2.5–4 mm. long; awns 4–16 cm. long, pink or red, hispidulous, stiff. Fig. 10/4, p. 29.
Range
DISTR. T5, 7 W. Africa from Mauritania to the Sudan Republic,
Altitude range
1500 m.
Distribution
TANGANYIKA Dodoma District Kazikazi, Lake Chaya, 7 May 1932, B. D. Burtt 2547! & Manyoni–Singida, Mar. 1962, Procter 2046!TANGANYIKA Mbeya District Lake Rukwa NW. of Ivuna, 11 Mar. 1934, Michelmore 999!
Distribution (external)
Zambia

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