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Pentaschistis curvifolia

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Identification
Pentaschistis curvifolia (Schrad.) Stapf [family POACEAE ]
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Entry for PENTASCHISTIS curvifolia Stapf [family POACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Capensis
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Capensis, Vol 7, page 310, (1900) Author: (By O. STAPF.)
Names
PENTASCHISTIS curvifolia Stapf [family POACEAE]
Danthonia curvifolia Schrad. [family POACEAE], in Schult. Mant. ii. 386; Trin. Gram. Gen. 70, and in. Mém. Acad. Pétersb. sér. 6, i. 70; Gram. Suppl. 33, and in Mém. Acad. Pétersb. sér. 6, iv. 34 (in part); Nees, Fl. Afr. Austr. 321 (excl. Syn. Thunb.); Steud. Syn. Pl. Glum. i. 242; Durand & Schinz, Consp. Fl. Afr. v. 848.
Danthonia livida Trin. [family POACEAE], Gram. Ic. t. 50, and in Mém. Acad. Pétersb. sér. 6, i. 70.
Danthonia denudata Nees [family POACEAE], Fl. Afr. Austr. 320; Steud. l.c.; Durand & Schinz, l.c. 849.
Avena glomerata Steud. [family ], in Flora, 1829, 483.
Pentameris curvifolia Nees [family POACEAE], in Linnæa, vii. 313; Kunth, Enum. i. 317; Suppl. 272.
Information
perennial, compactly cæspitose; culms erect, firm, 1–2 ft. long, smooth, glabrous, 3–4-noded, internodes exserted; leaves crowded at the base, quite glabrous, smooth; sheaths tight, very firm, lower short, imbricate, persistent, slightly striate in the upper part; ligule a fringe of very short hairs; blades narrow, linear, tapering to an acute or subacute point, up to more than 1 1/2 ft. by 1 lin. when expanded, rarely broader, nearly always setaceously involute, very firm, strongly flexuous or curled; panicle spike-like, oblong or ovate, usually very dense, 1–3 in. by 1/2–1 in.; all divisions very short, scabrid; spikelets straw-coloured or brownish, 5 1/2–7 lin. long, imbricate; glumes lanceolate in profile, long, setaceously acuminate, scarious, 1-nerved, scaberulous; valves oblong in profile, body 1 1/2 to almost 2 lin. long, loosely hairy all over to villous; lobes 1/4 lin. long, acute, more or less adnate to a bristle (3–4 lin. long) from the inner angle; awn 6–8 lin. long, kneed and twisted below the middle; pales equalling the valves, keels scabrid, back hairy; lodicules glabrous; anthers 1 1/4 lin. long. null
Distribution
COAST REGION Cape Div.; Cape Flats, Zeyher, 1824! stony slopes of Table Mountain, 1500 ft., MacOwan, Herb. Austr. Afr. 1695! 1696! Burchell, 523! frequent at the summit of Table Mountain, Milne, 249! between the Lions Head and Signal Hill, Wolley Dod, 3149! Wynberg, Wilms, 3868! wood beyond Alphen Bridge, Wolley Dod, 3490! Constantia Nek, Wolley Dod, 3487! Silvermine swamp, common, Wolley Dod, 3389! Simons Bay, Wright! Green Point, Bergius! Paarl Div.; near French-Hoek or Great Drakenstein, Drège! Agter de Paarl, Drège. Tulbagh Div.; Tulbagh Waterfall, Ecklon! Worcester Div.; Drakenstein Mountains, Bains Kloof, Rehmann, 2300! mountains above Worcester, Rehmann, 2590! peaty plains near Dutoits Kloof, 3000–4000 ft., Drège, 1679! Stellenbosch Div.; Hottentots Holland, Ecklon & Zeyher! Caledon Div.; Klein River Berg, Ecklon, 321! Bredasdorp Div.; sand-dunes near Cape Agulhas, Ecklon. Swellendam Div.; Puspus Valley, Ecklon. Riversdale Div.; between Vet River and Krombeks River, Burchell, 7171! Uitenhage Div.; mountains near the Van Staadens River, Ecklon; near Zwartkops River, Zeyher! Albany Div.; near Grahamstown, MacOwan, 155! 1286!SOUTH AFRICA without locality, MacGillivray, 405! 406! Harvey, 274! 280!

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