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Panicum tenuissimum

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Identification
Panicum tenuissimum Schrank [family POACEAE ] (stored under name); Sporobolus tenuissimus (Schrank) Kuntze [family POACEAE ] Verified by Charles Dennis Adams, Poa eragrostis L. [family POACEAE ] Verified by D. Solander,
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  • Poa eragrostis
  • Panicum tenuissimum
  • Sporobolus tenuissimus

Flora

Entry for SPOROBOLUS tenuissimus (Schrank) Kuntze [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, Part (Part 2), page 177, (1974) Author: W. D. CLAYTON, S. M. PHILLIPS AND S. A. RENVOIZE
Names
SPOROBOLUS tenuissimus (Schrank) Kuntze [family POACEAE], ,Rev. Gen. Pl. 3: 396 (1893); R.K.G.: 28 (1958); G.T.: 48 (1965); Clayton in F.W.T.A., ed. 2, 3: 411 (1972). Type: cultivated at Munich, originally from Brazil, Martius (M, holo. !)
Panicum tenuissimum Schrank [family POACEAE], in Denkschr. Bot. Ges. Regensb. 2: 26 (1822)
Vilfa minutiflora Trin. [family POACEAE], Diss. Bot.: 158 (1824). Type: cultivated, originally from Brazil (M, iso. !)
Sporobolus minutiflorus (Trin.) Link [family POACEAE], Hort. Reg. Bot. Berol. 1: 88 (1827)
Agrostis minutiflora (Trin.) Steud. [family POACEAE], Nom. Bot., ed. 2, 1: 41 (1840)
Information
Annual; culms weak, 18–80 cm. high. Leaf-blades 5–20 cm. long, 2–5 mm. wide, flat. Panicle narrowly oblong, 10–40 cm. long, 2–6 cm. wide, very delicate and diffuse, the branches and pedicels capillary. Spikelets tiny, 0.8–1 mm. long, gaping at maturity; lower glume oblong, 0.1–0.2 mm. long, raggedly truncate; upper glume ovate-oblong, 0.3–0.5 mm. long, subacute; lemma ovate, as long as the spikelet; anthers 3, 0.1–0.2 mm. long. Grain obovoid, 0.4–0.5 mm. long, truncate.
Range
DISTR. K7; T3, 4, 6, 8; Z; P westward to Senegal and tropical America; eastward to Burma
Altitude range
sea-level to 1000 m.
Distribution
KENYA Kwale District Msambweni, 15 May 1948, J. A. Allan 8 !KENYA Mombasa I., 24 Oct. 1929, Burtt Davy 2695 !KENYA Kilifi District Malindi, 8 Aug. 1949, Bogdan 2542 !TANZANIA E. Usambara Mts., Amani, 21 Sept. 1929, Greenway 1745 !TANZANIA Tanga District Magrotto, 6 Oct. 1957, Faulkner 2070 ! & Amboni, June 1893, Holst 2773 !TANZANIA Zanzibar I., Mangapwani beach, 10 Aug. 1950, Barney 1074 !TANZANIA Pemba I., Chake Chake, J. H. Vaughan 255 !

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