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Perotis latifolia

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Identification
Anthoxanthum indicum L. [family POACEAE ] (stored under name); Perotis latifolia Aiton [family POACEAE ] Verified by Henry Trimen, Perotis indica (L.) Kuntze [family POACEAE ]
Related name
  • Perotis patens
  • Perotis transvaalensis
  • Anthoxanthum indicum
  • Perotis vaginata
  • Perotis indica
  • Perotis glabrata
  • Saccharum spicatum
  • Perotis latifolia

Flora

Entry for PEROTIS latifolia Ait. [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
PEROTIS latifolia Ait. [family POACEAE], Hort. Kew. i. 85;—Beauv. Agrost. 172, t. iv. fig. 9 (P. laxifolia (by error), 6); Kunth, Rév. Gram. i. 357, t. 92; Enum. i. 470; Suppl. 380; Hook. Niger Fl. 569; Steud. Syn. Pl. Glum. i. 186; Anderss. in Peters, Reise Mossamb. 561; Oliv. in Trans. Linn. Soc. xxix. 176; Durand & Schinz, Consp. Fl. Afr. v. 734; Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. vii. 98; not Thunb.
PEROTIS scabra Willd. ex Trin. [family POACEAE], Gram. Unifl. et Sesquifl. 172. Agrostid. ii. 21, and in Mém. Acad. Pétersb. sér. 6, vi. 267; Steud. l.c. 186; Durand & Schinz, l.c. 734.
PEROTIS hordeiformis Nees ex Steud. [family POACEAE], Nomencl. ed. ii. ii. 306; Fl. Afr. Austr. 139; Trin. Agrostid. ii. 21, and in Mém. Acad. Pétersb. sér. 6, vi. 267; Steud. Syn. Pl. Glum. i. 186.
Saccharum spicatum Linn. [family POACEAE], Sp. Plant. 54; not of Thunb. Prodr. 20.
Agrostis spicæformis Linn. fil. [family POACEAE], Suppl. 108.
Information
culms fascicled, geniculate, suberect, ascending often from a few inches to 1 1/2 in. long, smooth, glabrous, many-noded, lower internodes short, not or slightly exserted, uppermost 1 or 2 by far the longest, long exserted; leaves rather numerous in the lower 1/3– 1/4 of the culm; sheaths thin, striate, smooth; ligules very delicate, short, ciliolate; blades linear-lanceolate to ovate-anceolate from a clasping broad base, acute or acuminate, 3/4–3 in. by 1 1/2–4 lin., flat or somewhat wavy; glaucous, margins rigidly ciliate or fimbriate, rarely smooth; spike slender, rigid or flexuous, 3–8 in. long, rather dense; axis smooth, terete; spikelets about 1 lin. long, linear-lanceolate; glumes scaberulous, 3–10 lin. long, very fine, flexuous, often purplish; valve less than 1/2 lin. long; pale under 1/4 lin. long; tip finely ciliolate; anthers 1/4 lin. long; grain almost 1 lin. long. null
Range
Throughout tropical Africa and Asia.
Distribution
EASTERN REGION Natal, near Durban, below 500 ft., Drège! valleys between Tugela and Umpumulo, 1000 ft., Buchanan, 168! and without precise locality, Gerrard, 687! Delagoa Bay, Forbes!KALAHARI REGION Transvaal; Bosch Veld, at Klippan, Rehmann, 5370!
Notes
Saccharum spicatum of Thunberg's Prodromus, 20, from Table Mountain, referred by him to Perotis latifolia in Prodromus, 192 (and in Fl. Cap. ed. i. 416; ed. Schult. 111), is Imperata arundinacea, Cyr., according to Nees; but there is no specimen of it in Thunberg's herbarium.

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