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Perotis transvaalensis

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Name

Identification
Isotype of Perotis transvaalensis Gandoger [family POACEAE ] Perotis patens Gand. [family POACEAE ] (stored under name); Perotis latifolia Ait. [family POACEAE ]
Related name
  • Perotis patens
  • Perotis transvaalensis
  • Perotis latifolia

Flora

Entry for PEROTIS patens Gand. [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, Part (Part 2), page 177, (1974) Author: W. D. CLAYTON, S. M. PHILLIPS AND S. A. RENVOIZE
Names
PEROTIS patens Gand. [family POACEAE], in Bull. Soc. Bot. Fr. 66: 301 (1920); F.P.N.A. 3: 138 (1955); F.P.S. 3: 519 (1956); R.K.G.: 34 (1958); Ann. list Nyasaland grasses: 54 (1958); I.G.U.: 49 (1960); G.T.: 20 (1965); Clayton in F.W.T.A., ed. 2, 3: 411 (1972). Type: South Africa, Natal, Berea, J. M. Wood 5925 (LY, holo.!, K, iso.!)
PEROTIS transvaalensis Gand. [family POACEAE], in Bull. Soc. Bot. Fr. 66: 301 (1920). Type: South Africa, Transvaal, Modimulle, Schlechter 4261 (LY, holo. !, K, iso. !)
PEROTIS indica [family POACEAE], [sensu E.A. Pasture Plants 2: 36 (1927); Ann. list grasses Ug.: 38 (1947), non (L.) Kuntze]
PEROTIS patens Robyns & Tournay var. parvispicula [family POACEAE], in B.J.B.B. 25: 241 (1955) &F.P.N.A. 3: 138 (1955); G.T.: 20 (1965). Type: Kenya, Northern Frontier Province, Moyale, Gillett 14081 (K, holo. !)
PEROTIS scabra (Robyns & Tournay) Cuf. var. parvispicula [family POACEAE], E.P.A.: 1302 (1969)
Information
Loosely tufted annual or short-lived perennial; culms 30–60 cm. high, ascending, tough and wiry. Leaf-blades lanceolate to narrowly ovate, 1–7 cm. long, 3–12 mm. wide, glaucous. Spike 5–30 cm. long, long-exserted from the uppermost sheath, the spikelets densely packed and ascending or spreading horizontally. Spikelets 1.2–2.7 mm. long, rounded at the base and without a definite callus; glumes scaberulous to minutely hispidulous, with a flexuous awn 9–17 mm. long. Caryopsis terete.
Range
DISTR. U1–4; K1–7; T1, 2, 4–6, 8 tropical and South Africa, Madagascar
Altitude range
300–2000 m.
Distribution
KENYA N. Kavirondo District 4 km. N. of Bungoma, 27 June 1955, Bogdan 4037 !KENYA Kwale District Cha Shimba Forest, 3 Feb. 1953, Drummond & Hemsley 1099 ! & Shimba Hills, Lango ya Mwagandi [Longomwagandi] area, 15 Feb. 1968, Magogo & Glover 109 !TANZANIA Mbulu District Lake Manyara National Park, Ndala R., 24 Feb. 1964, Greenway & Kanuri 11240 !TANZANIA Kondoa District near Kolo, 31 Jan. 1928, B. D. Burtt 1278!TANZANIA Morogoro District Turiani, 31 Mar. 1953, Drummond & Hemsley 1920!UGANDA Teso District Serere, Apr.–May 1932, Chandler 746 ! & Soroti, 13 Oct. 1952, Verdcourt 820 !UGANDA Mbale District Butiru, 20 June 1927, Snowden 1122 !
Notes
Best separated from the other African species by the complete absence of a stalk-like base on the fallen spikelet. The spikelets have rather a wide size range, but this is apparently continuous and without taxonomic significance.

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