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Puelia olyriformis

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Identification
Isotype of Puelia coriacea Clayton [family POACEAE ] Verified by Not on sheet, Puelia olyriformis (Franch.) Clayton [family POACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Bamps P., 1999
Related name
  • Atractocarpa olyriformis
  • Puelia coriacea
  • Puelia dewevrei
  • Microcalamus devosii
  • Puelia olyriformis

Flora

Entry for PUELIA olyriformis (Franch.) W. D. Clayton [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 1), page 1, (1970) Author: W. D. Clayton
Names
PUELIA olyriformis (Franch.) W. D. Clayton [family POACEAE], in K.B. 20: 271 (1966). Type: Congo Republic, Brazzaville, Thollon (P, holo.!)
Atractocarpa olyriformis Franch. [family POACEAE], in Bull. Soc. Linn. Paris 1: 675 (1887) & emend. Franch. in Bonnier, Rev. Gen. Bot. 2: 467 (1890), with t. 25 (1890) as “ olyraefolia ”; G.T.: 12 (1965), as “ olyraefolia ”
Information
Perennial, arising from a short rhizome. Culms 40 cm. to 1 m. high, erect, the leaves and panicle borne upon the same culm. Leaf-blades broadly lanceolate, 12–30 cm. long and 2–6 cm. wide, glabrous, with fine transverse nerves, rounded or broadly cuneate at the base, tapering to an acuminate tip; leaf-sheaths glabrous. Panicle linear, 10–20 cm. long and 1–3 cm. wide, the spikelets clearly pedicelled. Spikelets narrowly ovate, 10–16 mm. long; glumes unequal, the lower 2–4 mm, long, the upper 4–5 mm, long; ♂ lemmas ovate, 9–11 mm. long, herbaceous to chartaceous, finely ridged by the prominent nerves; anthers 3.5 mm. long; ♀ lemma lanceolate, 10–11 mm. long, subtended by a fleshy frill 0.2 mm. high around its base. Fig. 5.
Range
DISTR. T6
Altitude range
1000 m.
Distribution
TANGANYIKA Ulanga District Ifakara, Itula, Mar. 1960, Haerdi 479/0!
Distribution (external)
Sierra Leone
Liberia
Congo Republics

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