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Pseudechinolaena polystachya

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Name

Identification
Pseudechinolaena polystachya (Kunth) Stapf [family POACEAE ]
Related name
  • Pseudechinolaena polystachya
Common name
  • nane (def. -i) (FCD) (SIERRA LEONE, MENDE), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 2

Flora

Entry for PSEUDECHINOLAENA polystachya (Kunth) Stapf [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, page 451, (1982) Author: W. D. CLAYTON and S.A. RENVOIZE
Names
PSEUDECHINOLAENA polystachya (Kunth) Stapf [family POACEAE], in F.T.A. 9: 495 (1919); Fl. Agrost. Congo Belge 2: 74 (1934); Ann. list grasses Ug.: 39 (1947); F.P.N.A. 3: 80 (1955); R.K.G.: 47 (1958); Ann. list Nyasaland grasses: 55 (1958); I.G.U.: 50 (1960); G.T.: 79 (1965); Clayton in F.W.T.A., ed. 2, 3: 436 (1972). Type: Colombia, Tenerife to Zambrano, Humboldt & Bonpland (P, holo., K, microfiche!)
Echinolaena polystachya Kunth [family POACEAE], in Humb. & Bonpl., Nov. Gen. Sp. 1: 119 (1816)
Panicum uncinatum Raddi [family POACEAE], Agrost. Bras.: 41 (1823). Type: Brazil, Rio de Janeiro, Raddi (FI, holo.!)
Panicum polystachyum (Kunth) K. Schum. [family POACEAE], in P.O.A. C: 103 (1895), non L. (1759)
Panicum heterochlamys Peter [family POACEAE], F.D.O.-A. 1, Anh.: 23, fig. 8/2(1930). Type: Tanzania, Lushoto District, Amani–Kwamkoro, Peter 20024 (B, holo.†)
Loxostachys uncinata (Raddi) Peter [family POACEAE], F.D.O.-A. 1: 204 (1930)
Echinochloa polystachya (Kunth) Roberty [family POACEAE], in Bull. I.F.A.N., sér. A, 17: 64 (1955), non (Kunth) Hitchc. (1920)
Information
Annual with slender prostrate culms, often forming a mat; culms 10–30 cm. high. Leaf-blades 1–8 cm. long, 3–14 mm. wide. Inflorescence 2–20 cm. long, the lowest raceme 1–6 cm. long, with distant spikelets. Spikelets 3.5–5.7 mm. long; lower glume lanceolate to elliptic, almost as long as the spikelet, acute to acuminate; upper glume strongly gibbous, mostly as long as the spikelet, armed with hooked bristles or these often reduced to short appressed hairs; upper lemma subcoriaceous. Fig. 131.
Range
DISTR. U1–4; K3–6; T2–6 throughout the tropics
Altitude range
500–2300 m.
Distribution
KENYA Trans-Nzoia District Kitale, 17 Dec. 1953, Bogdan 3887!KENYA Kiambu District Limuru, 28 Apr. 1959, McCallum Webster K 13!KENYA N. Kavirondo District Kakamega Forest Reserve, 28 Nov. 1971, Magogo 1537!TANZANIA Arusha District Arusha National Park, The Glades, 13 Oct. 1965, Greenway & Kanuri 12138! & Mangala–Itikony, 5 Apr. 1968, Greenway & Kanuri 13423!TANZANIA Mpanda District Kahoko, 23 July 1959, Newbould & Harley 4587!UGANDA Mbale District Mt. Elgon, 19 Aug. 1927, Snowden 1183!UGANDA Masaka District Bugala I., 10 June 1932, A.S. Thomas 179!UGANDA Mengo District Maanyi [Manyi], 21 June 1956, Harker 571 !

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