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Oxyrhachis gracillima

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Identification
Oxyrhachis gracillima (Baker) C.E.Hubb. [family POACEAE ]
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Entry for OXYRHACHIS gracillima (Bak.) 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, page 451, (1982) Author: W. D. CLAYTON and S.A. RENVOIZE
Names
OXYRHACHIS gracillima (Bak.) C.E. Hubbard [family POACEAE], in Hook., Ic. Pl. 35, t. 3454 (1947); G.T.: 112 (1965); Clayton in F.W.T.A., ed. 2, 3: 506 (1972). Type: Madagascar, Baron 4457 (K, holo.!)
Rottboellia gracillima Bak. [family POACEAE], in J.L.S. 22: 533 (1887).
Oxyrhachis mildbraediana Pilg. [family POACEAE], in N.B.G.B. 11: 655 (1932). Type: Tanzania, Njombe District, Lupembe, Schlieben 693 (B, holo.†)
Information
Densely tufted perennial; culms 20–60 cm. high. Leaf-blades filiform, 5–30 cm. long. Spikes 5–16 cm. long, slender, long-exserted, purplish. Spikelet narrowly lanceolate, embedded in the internode; lower glume 3–6 mm. long, obtuse. Fig. 204.
Range
DISTR. T7
Altitude range
2000–2300 m.
Distribution
TANZANIA Njombe District Njombe–Kipengere road, 26 Apr. 1970, Wingfield 587! & Njombe, 1931, Emson 84!
Distribution (external)
Sierra Leone
Cameroun
Zambia
Madagascar

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