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Paspalidium obtusifolium

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Name

Identification
Panicum obtusifolium Delile [family POACEAE ] Panicum obtusifolium unrecorded [family POACEAE ] Paspalidium obtusifolium (Delile) N.D.Simpson [family POACEAE ] (stored under name); Digitaria obtusifolia Roem. & Schult. [family POACEAE ]
Related name
  • Heteranthoecia unrecorded
  • Paspalidium obtusifolium
  • Panicum cupressifolium
  • Digitaria obtusifolia
  • Panicum obtusifolium
  • Paspalidium platyrrhachis
  • Panicum fluitans

Flora

Entry for PASPALIDIUM obtusifolium (Del.) N.D. Simpson [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
PASPALIDIUM obtusifolium (Del.) N.D. Simpson [family POACEAE], Min. Agric. Egypt. Bull. 93: 10 (1930). Type: Egypt, Delile (MPU, holo!)
Panicum obtusifolium Del. [family POACEAE], Fl. Egypte: 150, fig. 5/1 (1813)
Digitaria obtusifolia (Del.) Roem. & Schult. [family ], Syst. Veg. 2: 889 (1817)
Panicum obtusifolium Coss. & Dur. var. acutifolium [family POACEAE], Expl. Sc. Alg.: 29 (1854). Types: Algeria, La Calle, Letourneaux (K, isosyn.!) & Freytis, Letourneaux (whereabouts uncertain) & Senhadja, Letourneaux & de la Perradiére in Kralik 150 (K, isosyn.!)
Paspalidium platyrhachis C.E. Hubbard [family POACEAE], in K.B. 1934: 262 (1934). Type: Zambia Mazabuka, Trapnell 1086 (K, holo.!)
Paspalidium obtusifolium (Coss. & Dur.) Maire var. acutifolium [family POACEAE], Fl. Afr. Nord 1: 309 (1952)
Information
Perennial, with creeping or floating spongy rhizomes; culms 30–60 cm. high, prostrate and rooting at the nodes below. Leaf-blades 3–20 cm. long, 4–12 mm. wide, flat or folded, broadly obtuse to bluntly acute. Inflorescence 10–30 cm. long; racemes 1–3 cm. long, their rhachis winged and 1–3 mm. wide. Spikelet narrowly ovate, 3–4 mm. long; lower glume truncate, 1/8–1/4 the length of the spikelet; upper glume 1/3–1/2 the length of the spikelet; lower floret with a palea, its lemma as long as the spikelet; upper lemma granulose.
Range
DISTR. K7; T4–6 southward to South Africa
Altitude range
0–1100 m.
Distribution
KENYA Kwale District Tiwi diversions, 10 Nov. 1948, Allan 166!TANZANIA Kigoma District Malagarasi, Lake Magoma, 14 Nov. 1949, Vesey-FitzGerald 400!TANZANIA Uzaramo District Lake Mwananyamara, 5 Aug. 1975, Mwasumbi 11340!
Distribution (external)
Algeria
Egypt
Notes
The species is distinguished by its large spikelets. The shape of the leaf-tips varies considerably, but the variation seems not to be of taxonomic significance.

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