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Identification
Pennisetum thunbergii Kunth [family POACEAE ] (stored under name); Pennisetum adoense Steud. [family POACEAE ]
Related name
  • Pennisetum schimperi
  • Pennisetum adoense
  • Pennisetum thunbergii
  • Pennisetum dioicum
  • Gymnothrix adoensis
  • Pennisetum petiolare

Flora

Entry for PENNISETUM thunbergii Kunth [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
PENNISETUM thunbergii Kunth [family POACEAE], Rev. Gram. 1: 50 (1829); F.T.A. 9: 997 (1934); Fl. Agrost. Congo Belge 2: 343 (1934); Ann. list Nyasaland grasses: 54 (1958); G.T.: 89 (1965). Type: South Africa, Thunberg (UPS, holo.)
Cenchrus geniculatus Thunb. [family POACEAE], Prodr. Pl. Cap.: 24 (1794). Type as for species
Panicum geniculatum (Thunb.) Thunb. [family POACEAE], Fl. Cap. 1: 388 (1813), non Poir. (1798)
Pennisetum schimperi A. Rich. var. pubiflora [family POACEAE], Tent. Fl. Abyss. 2: 381 (1851). Type: Ethiopia, Mt. Scholoda, Schimper 11 (K, iso.!)
Pennisetum adoense Steud. [family POACEAE], Syn. Pl. Glum. 1: 104 (1854); F.T.A. 9: 998 (1934); F.P.S. 3: 513 (1956). Type: Ethiopia, Adua [Adoa], Schimper 94 (K, iso.!)
Pennisetum glabrum Steud. [family POACEAE], Syn. Pl. Glum. 1: 104 (1854); F.T.A. 9: 995 (1934); Fl. Agrost. Congo Belge 2: 342 (1934); Ann. list grasses Ug.: 35 (1947); F.P.N.A. 3: 127 (1955); F.P.S. 3: 512 (1956); R.K.G.: 52 (1958); I.G.U.: 47 (1960); G.T.: 89 (1965); Clayton in F.W.T.A., ed. 2, 3: 463 (1972). Type: Ethiopia, Mt. Scholoda, Schimper 11 (K, iso.!)
Pennisetum schimperi (Steud.) Th. Dur. & Schinz var. glabrum [family POACEAE], Consp. Fl. Afr. 5: 784 (1894)
Pennisetum depauperatum Schweinf. [family POACEAE], in Bull. Herb. Boiss. 2, App. 2: 26 (1894). Type: Yemen, Menacha, Schweinfurth 1471 (K, iso.!)
Pennisetum thunbergii Stapf var. galpinii [family POACEAE], in Fl. Cap. 7: 437 (1899). Types: South Africa, near Queenstown, Galpin 2368 (K, syn.!) & several other syntypes
Pennisetum geniculatum (Thunb.) Leeke [family POACEAE], in Zeitschr. Naturwiss. 79: 43 (1907), non (Poir.) Jacq. (1820)
Pennisetum glabrum Chiov. var. filiforme [family POACEAE], in Ann. 1st. Bot. Roma 8: 322 (1908). Type: Ethiopia, Eritrea, Asmara, Pappi 5061 (Fl, holo.!)
Pennisetum leekei Mez [family POACEAE], in N.B.G.B. 7: 52 (1917). Type: Rwanda, Lukondo, Mildbraed 698 (B, holo.!)
Pennisetum paucisetum Peter [family POACEAE], in Abh. K. Ges. Wiss. Gott., Math.-Phys. Kl., n.f., 13, 2: 46 (1928) & in E.J. 68: 140 (1937). Type: Tanzania, S. Pare Mts., Peter (B, holo.†)
Pennisetum snowdenii C.E. Hubbard [family POACEAE], in K.B. 1928: 133 (1928). Type: Uganda, Mbale District, Bulago, Snowden 1181 (K, holo.!)
Pennisetum leekei Peter var. leucostachys [family POACEAE], F.D.O.-A. 1, Anh.: 74 (1930). Type: Tanzania, Buha District, Bikare-Mkigo, Peter 38717 (B, holo.†)
Information
Loosely tufted rhizomatous perennial; culms 10–150 cm. high, erect or geniculate. Leaf-blades linear, 3–40 cm. long, 2–8 mm. wide, flat or convolute, tapering to a filiform tip; sheaths glabrous except for margins and throat. Panicle linear to narrowly oblong, 2–15 cm. long, dense; rhachis cylindrical, with rounded ribs and distinct peduncle-stumps, scaberulous; involucre enclosing 1 sessile spikelet, stipeless and truncate at the base; bristles fine, glabrous, the longest 5–14 mm. Spikelets lanceolate to narrowly ovate, 2.5–5 mm. long, acuminate; lower glume suppressed or up to 1 mm. long; upper glume up to 1/4 the length of the spikelet, acute to emarginate; lower lemma barren, (1/4–)1/3–2/3(–3/4) the length of the spikelet, abruptly acuminate to cuspidate, usually with a mucro 0.5–1.5 mm. long; upper lemma as long as the spikelet, acuminate or with a mucro up to 1 mm. long; anther-tips smooth, with a few tiny hairs, or distinctly penicillate.
Range
DISTR. U1–3; K2–5; T2–4, 7 Zaire and Ethiopia to South Africa
Altitude range
1500–3500 m.
Distribution
KENYA Nakuru District Nyahururu [Thomsons] Falls, 8 Sept. 1948, Bogdan 1998!KENYA Naivasha District Naivasha-Limuru, 3 May 1959, McCallum Webster K.56!KENYA Fort Hall District Wamuhu, 24 Nov. 1959, Kerfoot 1422!TANZANIA Mpanda District Ujamba, 24 Aug. 1958, Newbould & Jefford 1760!TANZANIA Ufipa District 12 km. S. of Sumbawanga, 30 Dec. 1961, E.A. Robinson 4816!TANZANIA Njombe District near Igosi on the Njombe-Kipengere road, 26 Apr. 1970, Wingfield 773!UGANDA Karamoja District Mt. Morongole, Apr. 1959, J. Wilson 696!UGANDA Kigezi District Mt. Mgahinga, 22 Oct. 1929, Snowden 1492! & Muhavura, 21 Dec. 1933, A.S. Thomas 1147!
Distribution (external)
Yemen
Sri Lanka

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