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Pennisetum divisum

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Name

Identification
Panicum dichotomum Forssk. [family POACEAE ] Pennisetum divisum (Forssk. ex J.F.Gmel.) Henrard [family POACEAE ] (stored under name);
Related name
  • Pennisetum unrecorded
  • Benniseto asperifolia
  • Panicum lanatum
  • Pennisetum elanum
  • Pennisetum elatum
  • Pennisetum dichotomum
  • Pennisetum cenchroides
  • Pennisetum divisum
  • Penniseto asperifolio
  • Panicum dichotomum
  • Pennisetum asperifolium
  • Cenchrus ciliaris
  • Enniseto asperifolia
Common name
  • mekhamla (HM) oum khamela (HM) (MALI, ARABIC (Mali)), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 2

Flora

Entry for PENNISETUM divisum (J.F. Gmel.) Henrard [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
PENNISETUM divisum (J.F. Gmel.) Henrard [family POACEAE], (1938). Fig. 142.
PENNISETUM dichotomum Del. [family POACEAE], (1813), based on Panicum dichotomum Forssk. (1775) non L. (1753).
Information
Perennial with short woody rhizome; stems woody, suffruticosely branched throughout, up to 1(–2) m high; leaves tightly inrolled, pungent, glaucous; sheaths inflated, the lower readily shedding the short blade. Panicle oblong, 5–12 cm long; rhachis with shallowly angular ribs below the cupular scars, scaberulous; involucre enclosing 1 sessile spikelet, borne upon a short oblong stipe 0.5–1 mm long; bristles glabrous, rarely thinly hairy, the longest 7–20 mm. Spikelets narrowly lanceolate, 6.5–8.5 mm long; lower glume 1/2–3/4 the length of the spikelet; upper glume almost as long as the spikelet; lemmas similar, the lower male.
Range
N1–3; C1 North Africa through South-west Asia to India.
Altitude range
0–1000 m.
Distribution
SOMALIA Hansen & Heemstra 6144; Hemming 2054; Bally & Melville 15654; Wieland 4408.
Notes
Dhalan, dungarro (Som.).

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