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Paspalum glumaceum

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Name

Identification
Paspalum glumaceum Clayton [family POACEAE ]
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Entry for PASPALUM glumaceum W.D. Clayton [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
PASPALUM glumaceum W.D. Clayton [family POACEAE], in K.B. 30: 104 (1975). Type: Zambia, Mfuwe, Astle 5458 (K, holo.!)
Information
Tufted perennial; culms 30–100 cm. high, ascending. Leaf-blades broadly linear to narrowly lanceolate, 8–30 cm. long, 8–19 mm. wide, acuminate. Inflorescence composed of 2–3 racemes borne on an axis 1–6 cm. long; racemes 2–11 cm. long, usually with a few of the spikelets paired (sometimes the second spikelet represented only by a tooth on the pedicel), the rhachis flat and 1.5–2 mm. wide. Spikelets broadly elliptic to rotund, (2.5–)2.8–3.5 mm. long; lower glume present on at least some of the spikelets as a triangular scale up to 1.5 mm. long; upper glume and lower lemma papery, glabrous to pubescent; upper lemma finely striate, brown at maturity.
Range
DISTR. U2; K7; T3, 4, 6, 7; Z; P Sudan Republic to Rhodesia
Altitude range
0–1000 m.
Distribution
KENYA Kwale District Ramisi-Shimoni, 4 Aug. 1948, Allan 110! & Msambweni, 15 May 1948, Allan 5! & Shimba Hills, Kwale Boma area, 3 Apr. 1968, Magogo & Glover 664!TANZANIA Lushoto District Amani, 17 Apr. 1968, Renvoize & Abdallah 1556!TANZANIA Kilosa District Mikumi National Park, Mkara Drive, Dec. 1967, Procter 3789!TANZANIA Ulanga District Luhombero R., 7 June 1967, Rees 113!TANZANIA Pemba I., Chake-Chake, June 1928, Vaughan 232UGANDA Bunyoro District Rabongo Forest, 15 June 1964, G. Jackson U.160!
Distribution (external)
Madagascar

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