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Pogonarthria squarrosa

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Identification
Pogonarthria squarrosa (Roem. & Schult.) Pilg. [family POACEAE ]
Related name
  • Pogonarthria squarrosa
Common name
  • lammulammugel = sheep’s salt grass (JMD) (NIGERIA, FULA-FULFULDE (Nigeria)), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 2

Flora

Entry for POGONARTHRIA squarrosa (Roem. & Schult.) Pilg. [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
POGONARTHRIA squarrosa (Roem. & Schult.) Pilg. [family POACEAE], in N.B.G.B. 5: 149 (1910); Ann. list grasses Ug.: 39 (1947); Ann. list Nyasaland grasses: 55 (1958); R.K.G.: 21 (1958); I.G.U.: 50 (1960); G.T.: 38 (1965); Clayton in F.W.T.A., ed. 2, 3: 397 (1972). Type: South Africa, NW. Cape Province, near Kuruman [in the land of the Beetjuans near Rissipien], Lichtenstein 66 (B, holo.!)
Poa squarrosa Roem. & Schult. [family POACEAE], Syst. Veg. 2: 553 (1817)
Eragrostis marlothii Hack. [family POACEAE], in E.J. 11: 404 (1889). Type: South Africa, NW. Cape Province, Koo, Marloth 1039b (B, holo., W, iso.!)
Leptochloa falcata Hack. [family POACEAE], in Bull. Herb. Boiss. 3: 386 (1895). Types: South Africa, Orange Free State, Bloemfontein, Rehmann 3753 & Olifantsfontein, Rehmann 3514 & Transvaal, Boshveld, between Elands R. and Klippan, Rehmann 5118 (all Z, syn., K, isosyn.!)
Pogonarthria falcata (Hack.) Rendle [family POACEAE], in Cat. Welw. Afr. Pl. 2: 232 (1899)
Diplachne menyharthii Hack. [family POACEAE], in Bull. Herb. Boiss., sér. 2, 1: 772 (1901). Type: Mozambique, Tete, Boroma, Zambezi R., Menyharth 1126 (W, holo.!)
Pogonarthria falcata Hack. var. condensata [family POACEAE], in Vier. Nat. Ges. Zür. 49: 173 (1904). Type: South Africa, Transvaal, near Hammanskraal, Schlechter 4195 (Z, holo.)
Pogonarthria menyharthii (Hack.) Hack. [family POACEAE], in Vier. Nat. Ges. Zür. 57: 532 (1912)
Pogonarthria hackelii Chiov. [family POACEAE], in Ann. Bot. Roma 10: 413 (1912). Types: Ethiopia, Eritrea, Acchelè Guzai, Coatit, Pappi 2011 (FI, syn., K, isosyn.!) & Dembelas, Pappi 6100 (FI, syn.)
Pogonarthria orthoclada Peter [family POACEAE], F.D.O.-A. 1, Anh.: 79, t. 43/2 (1930) & 273 (1931). Type: Tanzania, Tabora District, Ngulu, Goweko-Igalula, Peter 45939 (B, holo. †)
Information
Densely tufted perennial; culms 40–150 cm. high, stiffly erect, unbranched. Leaf-blades 4–33 cm. long, 2–5.5 mm. wide, flat or convolute especially towards the narrow tapering tip, scabrid on the upper surface, smooth beneath; ligule 0.25–0.5 mm. long. Inflorescence linear-oblong to pyramidal, 11–44 cm. long; racemes 1–6.5(–8.5) cm. long, ascending or spreading, often falcately curved, tardily deciduous. Spikelets 4–10-flowered, elliptic to narrowly elliptic-oblong, 3.3–7.8 mm. long, biseriate, disarticulating between the florets, but often also with the glumes and lemmas falling irregularly at maturity leaving the paleas on the rhachilla, tips of the rhachilla-internodes shortly and often sparsely bearded; glumes lanceolate, scabrid especially on the keel, dark reddish brown, the lower 0.8–1.5 mm. long, the upper 1.6–2.3 mm. long; lemmas 2–3 mm. long, scabrid, sharply acuminate. Caryopsis elliptic-oblong, 0.5–0.75 mm. long. Fig. 73.
Range
DISTR. U1, 3; K2, 4; T1, 2, 4–8 southwards to Cape Province of South Africa, also from Ghana eastwards to Sudan (Jebel Marra) and Eritrea
Altitude range
500–1870 m.
Distribution
KENYA W. Suk Reserve, 10 June 1952, Bogdan 3447 !KENYA Machakos District near Kibwezi, Athi R., 23–25 May 1959, Napper 1245 !KENYA Kitui District Yatta, 23 May 1955, Wilson 64!TANZANIA Shinyanga, Mar. 1936, B. D. Burtt 5687!TANZANIA Ufipa District Namwele, 18 Mar. 1959, McCallum Webster T. 147!TANZANIA Iringa District Ruaha National Park, 18 May 1968, Renvoize 2231!UGANDA Karamoja District Kaabong, 13 Nov. 1939, A. S. Thomas 3346!UGANDA Teso District Usuku, Abela, June 1938, Fiennes 135 !UGANDA Busoga District Kisiro, 7 Aug. 1957, Langdale-Brown 2322 !
Notes
A common grass in eastern and southern Africa which varies widely in height, leaf width, and particularly in the facies of the inflorescence, depending on the length, direction and degree of crowding of the racemes, and the length of the spikelets.

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