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Panicum brevifolium

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Identification
Panicum brevifolium L. [family POACEAE ]
Related name
  • Panicum brevifolium
Common name
  • muli (NWT) muri (NWT) (SIERRA LEONE, MENDE), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 2
  • kẻ-bil (NWT) kuseta-ka-gbil (NWT) (SIERRA LEONE, TEMNE), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 2
  • fumfuri (NWT) kurudεrafumfuri (NWT) sankabesugi (NWT) yane (NWT) (SIERRA LEONE, SUSU), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 2
  • kσibσre (NWT) nyanbile (NWT) (SIERRA LEONE, LOKO), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 2
  • deno-yeno probably general for grasses growing along bush paths (FCD) (SIERRA LEONE, KISSI), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 2
  • nimbo (NWT) (SIERRA LEONE, LIMBA), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 2

Flora

Entry for PANICUM brevifolium L. [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
PANICUM brevifolium L. [family POACEAE], Sp. Pl.: 59 (1753); F.T.A. 9: 731 (1920); Fl. Agrost. Congo Belge 2: 217 (1934); Ann. list grasses Ug.: 32 (1947); F.P.S. 3: 507 (1956); I.G.U.: 45 (1960); G.T.: 60 (1965); Clayton in F.W.T.A., ed. 2, 3: 429 (1972). Type: India (LINN, holo.!)
PANICUM ovalifolium Poir. [family POACEAE], in Lam., Encycl. Méth. Bot., Suppl. 4: 279 (1816). Type: Guinea, Herb. Desf. (P-LAM, holo.)
PANICUM plantagineum Schumach. [family POACEAE], Beskr. Guin. Pl.: 64 (1827). Type: Ghana, Thonning (C, holo.!)
PANICUM trichopiptum Steud. [family POACEAE], Syn. Pl. Glum. 1: 85 (1854). Type: Senegambia (whereabouts uncertain)
PANICUM subobliquum Stapf [family POACEAE], in F.T.A. 9: 723 (1920). Type: Guinée, Fouta Djallon, Chevalier 18755 (K, iso.!)
Information
Annual; culms 15–100 cm. long, rambing, often rooting from the lower nodes. Leaf-sheaths ciliately fringed; blades narrowly ovate to ovate, 5–10 cm. long, 10–25(–38) mm. wide, amplexicaul, thin, cross-veins present, glabrous or pilose, finely acute. Panicle ovate, 5–15 cm. long, rarely more, delicately branched, the branches spreading and often appearing somewhat tangled. Spikelets ovate, 1.5(–1.8) mm. long, asymmetrical, usually sparsely puberulous to pilose, slightly apiculate; lower glume hyaline, oblong, as long as the spikelet, (1–)3-nerved, separated from the rest of the spikelet by a short swollen internode; upper glume ovate, herbaceous, 5-nerved; lower lemma 5-nerved, sterile, its palea well developed; upper lemma pale, shining.
Range
DISTR. U1–4; K7; T1, 3, 6–8; Z; P throughout the Old World tropics
Altitude range
0–1700 m.
Distribution
KENYA Kwale District Lango ya Mwagandi area, 15 Feb. 1968, Magogo & Glover 114! & 16 km. SW. of Mombasa, 3 Dec. 1951, Bogdan 3341! & Mwele Mdogo Forest 19 km. SW. of Kwale, 5 Feb. 1953, Drummond & Hemsley 1128!TANZANIA Lushoto District Amani, Verdcourt 176! & Amani to Kwamkoro road, 18 Apr. 1968, Renvoize & Abdallah 1570!TANZANIA Morogoro District near Ruvu, June 1930, Haarer 1879!TANZANIA Zanzibar I., Marahubi, 21 Aug. 1963, Faulkner 3259!UGANDA Busoga District Lolui I., 16 May 1964, G. Jackson 101!UGANDA Mengo District Kyewaga Forest, 7 Sept. 1949, Dawkins 362! & Musoli, 10 Mar. 1957, Harker 652!
Notes
Occasionally only the peripheral spikelets are densely pilose, imparting a most striking halo effect to the panicle.

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