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Name

Identification
Isotype of Eragrostis frankii C.A.Mey. ex Steud. [family POACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Stephen Douglas Koch, Poa tenella L. [family POACEAE ]
Related name
  • Poa tenella
  • Poa eragrostis
  • Eragrostis minor
  • Poa tenellula
  • Poa distans
  • Eragrostis amabilis
  • Poa japonica
  • Eragrostis frankii
  • Eragrostis plumosa
  • Eragrostis tenellula
  • Eragrostis interrupta
  • Eragrostis milleflora
  • Poa plumosa
  • Eragrostis tenella
  • Eragrostis japonica
  • Eragrostis not on sheet

Flora

Entry for ERAGROSTIS tenella var. tenella [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
ERAGROSTIS tenella var. tenella [family POACEAE]
Poa tenella L. [family POACEAE], Sp. Pl.: 69 (1753)
Poa amabilis L. [family POACEAE], Sp. Pl.: 68 (1753). Types: India, Plukenet 1: 187 & Ceylon, Hermann 2: 59 (both BM, syn.)
Poa plumosa Retz. [family POACEAE], Obs. Bot. 4: 20 (1786). Type: India, Koenig (LD, holo.)
Eragrostis plumosa (Retz.) Link [family POACEAE], Hort. Reg. Bot. Berol. 1: 192 (1827); Chiov., Fl. Somala 2: 458 (1932)
Eragrostis amabilis (L.) Hook. & Arn. [family POACEAE], Bot. Beechey Voy.: 251 (1840)
Poa lepida A. Rich. [family POACEAE], Tent. Fl. Abyss. 2: 424 (1851). Type: Ethiopia, Tigre, Ailet, Schimper 1040 (K, iso.!)
Eragrostis lepida (A. Rich.) Steud. [family POACEAE], Syn. Pl. Glum. 1: 269 (1854)
Eragrostis amabilis K. Schum. var. duriuscula [family POACEAE], in P.O.A. C: 115 (1895). Types: Tanzania, Usambara Mts., Holst 204, 8941 & 8977 (B, syn. †)
Eragrostis tenella (Retz.) Stapf var. plumosa [family POACEAE], in Fl. Brit. Ind. 7: 315(1896)
Information
Panicle spreading.
Range
DISTR. U2–4; K5–7; T1–4, 6, 8, Z throughout the tropics
Altitude range
sea-level to 1400 m.
Distribution
KENYA Masai District Namanga River Hotel, 19 Sept. 1962, Greenway 10799!KENYA Kwale District Ukunda, 9 May 1953, Awando in Bally 8936 !KENYA Kilifi District Gede Forest, 26 Oct. 1958, Bogdan 4717 !TANZANIA Kilosa, 12 Feb. 1926, B. D. Burtt 139 !TANZANIA Morogoro, June 1957, Semsei 2693 !TANZANIA Songea District Mbamba Bay, 5 Apr. 1956, Milne-Redhead & Taylor 9521 !TANZANIA Zanzibar I., Chuini, 1 Jan. 1929, Greenway 1261 !UGANDA Ankole District Mbarara, 31 May 1929, Snowden 1366!UGANDA Busoga District Namwendwa, July 1926, Maitland 1424 !UGANDA Mengo District Kawanda, Nov. 1943, A.S. Thomas 4111!

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