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Panicum hygrocharis

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Identification
Isotype of Panicum hygrocharis Steud. [family POACEAE ] Panicum paludosum Roxb. [family POACEAE ] Panicum repens L. [family POACEAE ] (stored under name);
Related name
  • Panicum aquaticum
  • Panicum repens
  • Panicum hygrocharis
  • Panicum repentellum
  • Panicum laetum
  • Panicum subalbidum
  • Panicum paludosum

Flora

Entry for PANICUM repens 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 repens L. [family POACEAE], Sp. Pl., ed. 2: 87 (1762); F.T.A. 9: 708 (1920); Fl. Agrost. Congo Belge 2: 204 (1934); Ann. list grasses Ug.: 33 (1947); F.P.N.A. 3: 105(1955); F.P.S. 3: 504 (1956); R.K.G.: 39 (1958); Ann. list Nyasaland grasses: 52 (1958); I.G.U.: 46 (1960); G.T.: 62 (1965); Clayton in F.W.T.A., ed. 2, 3: 434 (1972). Type: Spain, ? Alstroemer (LINN, holo.!)
PANICUM convolutum Spreng. [family POACEAE], Syst. Veg. 1: 319 (1825). Type: Guinea, Herb. Willd. 18855 (B, holo, K, microfiche!)
PANICUM aquaticum A. Rich. [family POACEAE], Tent. Fl. Abyss. 2: 373 (1851), non Poir. (1816), nom. illegit. Types: Ethiopia, Tigre, Quartin Dillon (P, syn.) & Ferras-Mai, Schimper 1786 (K, isosyn.!)
PANICUM hygrocharis Steud. [family POACEAE], Syn. Pl. Glum. 1: 72 (1854); F.P.S. 3: 505 (1956). Based on P. aquaticum A. Rich.
PANICUM nyanzense K. Schum. [family POACEAE], in E.J. 24: 333 (1897). Type: Tanzania, Bukoba, Stuhlmann 3302 (B, holo.!)
PANICUM chromatostigma Pilg. [family POACEAE], in E.J. 33: 48 (1902). Type: Namibia, Otzimbinque, Fischer 75 (B, holo.!)
Information
Subglabrous perennial with long rhizomes and often also surface stolons; culms tough, erect or decumbent, 30–100 cm. high, often from a knotty base. Leaf-blades linear, 7–25 cm. long, 2–8 mm. wide, flat or rolled when dry, often stiff and pungent, distichous, ascending close to the stem, acute or acuminate. Panicle narrowly oblong, 5–20 cm. long, sparsely to moderately branched, the branches usually ascending. Spikelets ovate, 2.5–3 mm. long, pale, often tinged with purple, acute; lower glume broadly ovate, 1/3 the length of the spikelet, hyaline, 1(–3)-nerved, clasping the base of the spikelet, obtuse or acute; upper glume ovate, as long as the spikelet, membranous, (7–)9-nerved, acute; lower lemma similar to the upper glume, ♂, its palea well developed; upper lemma pale and glossy. Fig. 121.
Range
DISTR. U1–4; K4, 5, 7; T1–7; Z; P throughout the tropics and subtropics
Altitude range
150–2000 m.
Distribution
KENYA Kitui District Tsavo Park, N. bank of Galana R., 15 Nov. 1967, D. Wood 1392!KENYA Kisumu-Londiani District shores of Lake Victoria, 14 Mar. 1951, Bogdan 2911!KENYA Teita District Lugard Falls Rangers Post, 26 Dec. 1966, Greenway & Kanuri 12869!TANZANIA Bukoba, Mar. 1932, Haarer 2487!TANZANIA Lushoto District Maurui [Mauri], 6 July 1934, Greenway 4021!TANZANIA Ufipa District Lake Tanganyika-Mtakuja, 21 Oct. 1958, Vesey-FitzGerald 1964!TANZANIA Zanzibar I., Regeza Mwendo, Mar. 1944, R.M. Davies 31!TANZANIA Pemba I., Kukuu, 17 Dec. 1930, Greenway 2744!UGANDA W. Nile District R. Nile, 27 Mar. 1936, Michelmore 1400!UGANDA Masaka District Lake Nabugabo, 23 June 1929, Snowden 1377! & Sese, Buyovu, 23 Feb. 1933, A.S. Thomas 861!

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