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Panicum propinquum

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Identification
Digitaria longiflora (Retz.) Pers. [family POACEAE ] (stored under name); Digitaria propinqua (R.Br.) P.Beauv. [family POACEAE ] Verified by Stanley Thatcher Blake, Panicum propinquum R.Br. [family POACEAE ]
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  • Digitaria longiflora
  • Digitaria propinqua
  • Panicum propinquum

Flora

Entry for Digitaria longiflora Retz. Pers. [family GRAMINEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Zambesiaca
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
FZ, Vol 10, Part 3, (1989) Author: W. D. Clayton
Names
Panicum propinquum R.Br. [family GRAMINEAE], Prodr.: 193 (1810). Type from Australia.
Digitaria propinqua R.Br. Beauv. [family GRAMINEAE], Ess. Agrost.: 51 (1812). — Blake in Proc. Roy. Soc. Queensl. 81: 14 (1969). Type as for Panicum propinquum.
Paspalum longiflorum Retz. [family GRAMINEAE], Obs. Bot. 4: 15 (1786). Type as above.
Digitaria longiflora Retz. Pers. [family GRAMINEAE], Syn. Pl. 1: 85 (1805). — Rendle, Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw. 2: 162 (1899). — Chiovenda, Nuov. Giorn. Bot. Ital. 26: 75 (1919). — Stapf in F.T.A. 9: 469 (1919). — Stent in Bothalia 1: 269 (1924). — Hughes in Kew Bull. 1923: 310 (1923). — Vanderyst in Bull. Agric. Congo Belge 16: 660 (1925). — Robyns, Esp. Cong. Digit.: 42 (1931); in Fl. Agrost. Congo Belge 2: 46 (1934). Eggeling, Annot. List Grass. Uganda: 14 (1947). — Henrard, Monogr. Digit.: 408 (1950). — Chase in Hitchcock, Man. Grass. U.S.: 578, 855, fig. 833 (1951). — Sturgeon in Rhod. Agric. Journ. 50: 287 (1953). — Chippindall in Meredith, Grasses & Pastures of S. Afr.: 396, fig. 333 (1955). — Robyns & Tournay in Fl. Parc Nat. Alb. 3: 75 (1955). — Andrews, Fl. Pl. Sudan 3: 435 (1956). — Bor in Webbia 11: 359 (1956). — Bogdan, Rev. List Kenya Grass.: 49 (1958). — Jackson & Wiehe, Annot. Check-list Nyasal. Grass.: 35 (1958). — Bor, Grass. B.C.I. & P.: 302 (1960). — Harker & Napper, Illustr. Guide Grass. Uganda: 25, t. 56 (1960). — Napper, Grass. Tangan.: 75 (1965). — Blake in Proc. Roy. Soc. Queensl. 81: 17 (1969). — Simon in Kirkia 8: 31, 65 (1971). — Clayton in F.W.T.A. ed. 2, 3: 453 (1972). — Veldkamp in Blumea 21: 66, fig. 14e (1973). — Rose Innes, Man. Ghana Grass.: 137 (1977). — Bennett in Kirkia 11: 235 (1980). — Clayton in F.T.E.A., Gramineae: 634 (1982). TAB. 40, fig. 43. Type from Asia.
Panicum pseudodurva Nees [family GRAMINEAE], Fl. Afr. Austr.: 21 (1841). — Steud. in Syn. Pl. Glum. 1: 41 (1853). Type from S. Africa.
Digitaria pseudodurva Nees Schlechtend. [family GRAMINEAE], in Linnaea 26: 458 (1853). Type as above.
Digitaria friesii Pilg. [family GRAMINEAE], in Fries, Wiss. Ergebn. Schwed. Rhod.-Kongo-Exped. 1: 200 (1915). — Henrard, Monogr. Digit.: 267 (1950). — Simon in Kirkia 8: 65 (1971). Type: Zimbabwe, Fries 952 (B, holotype).
Digitaria flexilis Henrard [family GRAMINEAE], Monogr. Digit.: 258 (1950). Type from Uganda.
Digitaria preslii Kunth Henrard [family GRAMINEAE], Monogr. Digit.: 589 (1950). — Bor in Webbia 11: 360 (1956); Grass. B.C.I. & P.: 304 (1960). Type as for Paspalum preslii.
Digitaria corradii Chiov. [family GRAMINEAE], in Chiarugi, Webbia 8: 68, fig. 15B (1951). Type from Ethiopia.
Milium filiforme Roxb. [family GRAMINEAE], Fl. Ind. 1: 317 (1820) non Lagasca (1816). Type from Asia.
Digitaria roxburghii Spreng. [family GRAMINEAE], Syst. Veg. 1: 270 (1825). Type as above.
Paspalum pubescens J.S. Presl [family GRAMINEAE], in C.B. Presl, Reliq. Haenk. 1: 214 (1830) non Muhlenberg (1809). Type from ?America.
Paspalum preslii Kunth [family GRAMINEAE], Enum. Pl. 1: 47 (1833). Type as above.
Information
A loosely caespitose annual or short lived perennial, sometimes with a short rhizome or matforming with creeping runners, rooting at the nodes. Culms 20–50(70) cm., erect, ascending or creeping, glabrous, nodes dark and glabrous. Leaf sheaths glabrous to loosely hairy. Ligule 0.5–1.5 mm. long, truncate, entire. Leaflaminae (1)5–10(15) × 0.2×0.6 cm., linear, flat, smooth or minutely scaberulous, subglabrous or with scattered bulbous based bristles on both surfaces, scabrous along the margin. Inflorescence composed of (1)2(4) racemes, (1.5)2.5–10(17) cm. long, one subsessile, the other pedicellate on a very short common axis, erect to patent. Rhachis broadly winged, up to 1.2 mm. broad, smooth with scabrous margins. Pedicels 3-nate, 0.5–2.5 mm. long, subterete, smooth, broadened at the apex. Spikelets (1.2)1.5–2.0(2.2) mm. long, ovate-oblong, broadest in or above the middle. Inferior glume obsolete, truncate, nerveless, hyaline. Superior glume as long as the spikelet, ovateoblong, 3–5-nerved, appressed hairy, hairs fine, slightly undulating, whitish or purplish tinged, with rough, papillose walls. Inferior lemma as long as the spikelet, ovate-oblong with narrow, recurved margins, (5)7-nerved, appressed hairy. Superior lemma as long as the spikelet, oblong, acute, pale yellow to bluish green.
Habitat
Disturbed or open sites in miombo woodland, fallow land and roadsides.
Range
Widespread in the Palaeotropics
Distribution
Botswana N Okovango R, 15.ii.1979, Smith 2651 (SRGH).Zambia N Bwela Flats, 16.ii.1958, Savory 260 (SRGH).Zimbabwe E Nyamaropa, 1000 m., 16.i.1967, Biegel 1764 (K; SRGH).Malawi N Mzuzu, Marymount, 1500 m., 17.iii.1974, Pawek 8225 (GENT; P; SRGH).Mozambique Z Mopeia, 20.x.1974, Barnes J430 (SRGH).Zambia W Kitwe, 7.iv.1963, Fanshawe 7757 (BM; SRGH).Zambia C 34 km. S. of Kabwe, 1300 m., 4.iv.1961, Phipps & Vesey-FitzGerald 2933 (BM; K; SRGH).Zimbabwe S Matsai Reserve, 18.viii.1960, Cleghorn 625 (SRGH).Malawi S Mulanje, 27 ii 1951, Wiehe N/713 (K; PRE).Mozambique MS Chimoio, 30.i.1948, Barbosa 918 (K; LISC).Mozambique GI Gaza, Macia, 21.ix.1948, Myre & Cavalho 270 (LMA; PRE).Mozambique M Inhaca Isl., 15.vii.1957, Mogg 27337 (LMA; PRE).

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