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Paspalidium desertorum

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Name

Identification
Paspalidium desertorum Stapf [family GRAMINEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Data not digitized, Panicum arabicum Steud. [family POACEAE ] Verified by Data not digitized,
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  • Panicum arabicum

Flora

Entry for PASPALIDIUM desertorum (A. Rich.) Stapf [family POACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Somalia
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Somalia, Vol 4, (1995) Author: by T. A. Cope [updated by M. Thulin 2008]
Names
PASPALIDIUM desertorum (A. Rich.) Stapf [family POACEAE], (1920).
Information
Tufted perennial from a knotty base, the stems up to 60 cm high, erect or geniculately ascending, sometimes decumbent to form hard stolons. Inflorescence 4–20 cm long; racemes 0.3–3 cm long, contiguous (but the lowermost usually remote), the rhachis triquetrous, 0.2–0.4 mm wide, glabrous to puberulous. Spikelets ovate, 1.7–2.6 mm long; lower glume obtuse or truncate, 1/3–1/2 the length of the spikelet; upper glume 3/4 as long to as long as the spikelet; upper lemma granulose or weakly rugulose.
Range
N1–3; C1, 2; S1–3
Altitude range
0–1100 m.
Distribution
SOMALIA Gillett 4368; Hemming 2199; Bally & Melville 15827; Wieland 4350; Kuchar 16997; Friis & al. 4839; Alstrup & Michelsen 21; Deshmukh 414.
Distribution (external)
Ethiopia
Sudan
Kenya
Arabia
Notes
Gargaro (Som.).

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