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Pseudobrachiaria deflexa

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Identification
Pseudobrachiaria deflexa (Schumach.) Launert [family GRAMINEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on sheet, Panicum nudiglume Hochst. [family GRAMINEAE ] Verified by Not on sheet, Brachiaria deflexa (Schumach.) C.E.Hubb. ex Robyns [family GRAMINEAE ] Verified by Not on sheet,
Related name
  • Pseudobrachiaria deflexa
  • Panicum nudiglume
  • Brachiaria deflexa

Flora

Entry for BRACHIARIA deflexa (Schumach.) Robyns [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
BRACHIARIA deflexa (Schumach.) Robyns [family POACEAE], in B.J.B.B. 9: 181 (1932) & Fl. Agrost. Congo Belge 2: 110 (1934); Ann. list grasses Ug.: 6 (1947); F.P.S. 3: 410 (1956); R.K.G.: 46 (1958); Ann. list Nyasaland grasses: 31 (1958); I.G.U.: 20 (1960); G.T.: 69 (1965); Clayton in F.W.T.A., ed. 2, 3: 444 (1972). Type: Ghana, Thonning (C, holo.!)
Panicum deflexum Schumach. [family POACEAE], Beskr. Guin. Pl.: 63 (1827)
Panicum regulare Nees [family POACEAE], Fl. Afr. Austr.: 41 (1841). Type: Ghana, Thonning (S, holo.!)
Panicum nudiglume Hochst. [family POACEAE], in Flora 27: 253 (1844). Types: Sudan, Kotschy s.n. & 53 (both K, isosyn.!)
Panicum petiveri Chiov. var. robustissimum [family POACEAE], in Ann. 1st. Bot. Roma 8: 32 (1903). Type: Ethiopia, Eritrea, Assaorta, Pappi 3418 (whereabouts uncertain)
Panicum petiveri (Hochst.) Chiov. var. nudiglume [family POACEAE], in Ann. 1st. Bot. Roma 8: 303 (1908)
Brachiaria regularis (Nees) Stapf [family POACEAE], in F.T.A. 9: 544 (1919)
Brachiaria clavuliseta Chiov. [family POACEAE], in Agric. Col. 20: 106 (1926). Type: Somalia, Gorini 19 (K, iso.!)
Panicum ramosum (Schumach.) Peter var. deflexum [family POACEAE], F.D.O.-A. 1: 177 (1930)
Pseudobrachiaria deflexa (Schumach.) Launert [family POACEAE], in Mitt. Bot. Staats., München 8: 158 (1970)
Information
Loosely tufted annual; culms 15–70 cm. high, often weak and ascending. Leaf-blades broadly linear, 4–25 cm. long, 4–22 mm. wide. Inflorescence of 7–15 racemes, borne on an axis 6–15 cm. long; racemes 2–10 cm. long, often compound, bearing mostly paired distant spikelets spreading from the triquetrous rhachis, the inflorescence imitating a panicle; pedicels or some of them, longer than the spikelets, up to 15 mm. long. Spikelets broadly elliptic, 2.5–3.5 mm. long, glabrous to pubescent, acute, with a short stipe up to 0.5 mm. long; lower glume 1/3–1/2 the length of the spikelet; upper glume and lower lemma membranous; upper lemma rugose, subacute to acute.
Range
DISTR. U1–3; K1, 2, 4–7; T1–8; Z; P Senegal to Yemen and southwards to South Africa; a few records in India
Altitude range
0–1500 m.
Distribution
KENYA Northern Frontier Province Moyale, 2 Nov. 1952, Gillett 14119!KENYA Masai District Nairobi-Magadi road, 24 May 1948, Bogdan 1622!KENYA Teita District Sagala Hill, 11 Dec. 1961, Polhill & Paulo 963!TANZANIA Mbulu District Mto wa Mchanga, 9 Dec. 1963, Greenway & Kirrika 11166!TANZANIA Tanga District Kange Estate, 22 Oct. 1951, Faulkner 823!TANZANIA Rungwe District 40 km. S. of Mbeya, Jan. 1963, Procter 2362!TANZANIA Zanzibar I., Haitajwa Hill, 28 Jan. 1929, Greenway 1213!UGANDA Karamoja District Moroto, June 1954, J. Wilson 18!UGANDA Bunyoro District Bukumi, 15 May 1941, A.S. Thomas 3899!UGANDA Busoga District about 8 km. SW. of Makutu [Makuta], 17 Apr. 1953, G.H.S. Wood 752!
Notes
B. deflexa intergrades completely with B. ramosa, and may be no more than a geographical race of the latter. This relationship discourages the transfer of B. deflexa to Panicum despite its panicle-like inflorescence.

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