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Panicum basisetum

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Identification
Panicum basisetum Steud. [family POACEAE ] Setaria homonyma (Steud.) Chiov. [family POACEAE ] Setaria barbata (Lam.) Kunth [family POACEAE ] (stored under name);
Related name
  • Setaria homonyma
  • Setaria barbata
  • Panicum basisetum
  • Setaria basiseta

Flora

Entry for SETARIA barbata (Lam.) Kunth [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
SETARIA barbata (Lam.) Kunth [family POACEAE], Rév. Gram. 1: 47 (1829); F.T.A. 9: 854 (1930); Fl. Agrost. Congo Belge 2: 289 (1934); F.P.S. 3: 537 (1956); Clayton in F.W.T.A., ed. 2, 3: 424 (1972). Type: Mauritius (P, holo.)
Panicum barbatum Lam. [family POACEAE], Tab. Encycl. Méth. Bot. 1: 171 (1791)
Panicum lineatum Schumach. [family POACEAE], Beskr. Guin. Pl.: 61 (1827). Type: Ghana, Thonning (C, holo.!)
Panicum rhachitrichum Hochst. [family POACEAE], in Flora 27: 254 (1844). Type: Sudan, Nubia, Kotschy (TUB, holo.!)
Panicum basisetum Steud. [family POACEAE], Syn. Pl. Glum. 1: 52 (1854). Type: “Guinea”, Jardin (P, holo.)
Setaria basiseta (Steud.) Th. Dur. & Schinz [family POACEAE], Consp. Fl. Afr. 5: 772 (1894)
Setaria rhachitricha (Hochst.) Rendle [family POACEAE], Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw. 2: 188 (1899)
Information
Loosely tufted annual; culms 10–150(–200) cm. high, often rooting at the lower nodes. Leaf-blades broadly linear to narrowly lanceolate, 5–30 cm. long, 5–20(–30) mm. wide, conspicuously plicate, firm, dark green. Panicle narrowly elliptic, 3–25 cm. long, the spikelets densely crowded on pedicels or secondary branchlets along the spreading primary branches, these pubescent to pilose; bristles 1–15 mm. long. Spikelets oblong-elliptic, 2–3.2 mm. long, plump; lower glume obtuse, 1/4–1/3, the upper 2/3–4/5 the length of the spikelet; lower floret ♂ or barren, its lemma often depressed along the midnerve, with a well-developed palea; upper lemma strongly rugose.
Range
DISTR. U1; K2; T5 western Africa with a few isolated records elsewhere; also, perhaps introduced, in Mauritius and tropical Asia; introduced to the West Indies
Altitude range
1200–1500 m.
Distribution
KENYA Turkana District Kodick, 18 Oct. 1978, Hughes 41!TANZANIA Mpwapwa District 6 km. above Mtera bridge, 9 Feb. 1975, Backeus 1092!UGANDA Karamoja District Moroto, 12 Sept. 1956, Bally & Hardy 10783!UGANDA no precise locality, 1926, Maitland !

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