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Panicum holtzii

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Identification
Panicum holtzii Peter [family POACEAE ] Verified by Clayton, W.D., Urochloa rudis Stapf [family POACEAE ] (stored under name); Urochloa gorinii Chiov. [family POACEAE ] Verified by Hubbard,C.E., Urochloa helopus (Trin.) Stapf [family POACEAE ]
Related name
  • Urochloa rudis
  • Urochloa helopus
  • Urochloa gorinii
  • Panicum holtzii

Flora

Entry for UROCHLOA rudis Stapf [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
UROCHLOA rudis Stapf [family POACEAE], in F.T.A. 9: 597 (1920). Type: Somalia, Gharabwein, Drake-Brockman 954 (K, holo.!)
UROCHLOA gorinii Chiov. [family POACEAE], Agric. Col. 20: 107 (1926); Chiov., Fl. Somala 2: 445 (1932); R.K.G.: 43 (1958); G.T.: 71 (1965). Type: Somalia, Chisimaio, Gorini 35 (FI, holo.)
Panicum holtzii Peter [family POACEAE], F.D.O.-A. 1: 169 (as ‘ P. holstii ’), 173 (1930). Type: Tanzania, Dar es Salaam, Holtz (EA, W, iso.!)
Information
Creeping annual, rooting from the lower nodes; culms 20–100 cm. high. Leaf-blades broadly linear to narrowly lanceolate, 2–15 cm. long, 6–20 mm. wide, pubescent to velvety tomentose. Inflorescence of 2–5 racemes on a common axis 2–6 cm. long; racemes 2–6 cm. long, bearing single spikelets on a narrowly winged glabrous rhachis (but the pedicels with a few bristles). Spikelets broadly elliptic, plumply plano-convex, 3.5–5 mm. long, cuspidate; lower glume cuff-like, up to 1/4 the length of the spikelet, truncate, upper glume conspicuously 11-nerved, firmly membranous, tuberculate, the tubercles often bearing spines or bristles; lower lemma 7-nerved, chartaceous, tuberculate; lower palea with hyaline centre (1/3–1/2 the width) flanked by wide coriaceous strips along the keels; upper lemma not much shorter than the lower, submuricate, with a mucro 0.5 mm. long.
Range
DISTR. K7; T3, 6; Z
Altitude range
0–30 m.
Distribution
KENYA Kilifi District Malindi-Garsen road, 12 Oct. 1948, Allan 151! & Malindi, 1948, Allan 173!KENYA Tana River District Kurawa, 5 Oct. 1961, Polhill & Paulo 589!TANZANIA Pangani District Mkwaja, 9 July 1951, van Rensburg 514!TANZANIA Uzaramo District Dar es Salaam, Apr. 1928, Marshall 41! & Aug. 1953, Semsei 1287!TANZANIA Zanzibar I., Chukwani, R.M. Davies 7!
Distribution (external)
Somalia

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