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Identification
Rendlia altera (Rendle) Chiov. [family POACEAE ]
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Entry for RENDLIA altera (Rendle) Chiov. [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
RENDLIA altera (Rendle) Chiov. [family POACEAE], in Ann. Bot. Roma 13: 53 (1914); Ann. list Nyasaland grasses: 55 (1958); G.T.: 42 (1965). Type: Malawi, Mt. Mlanje, Whyte 64 (K, isolecto.!)
Harpochloa altera Rendle [family POACEAE], in T.L.S., ser. 2, 4: 57, t. 10/7–12 (1894)
Enteropogon muticus Hack. [family POACEAE], in Bull. Herb. Boiss. 7: 25 (1899). Type: South Africa, Pondoland, Bachmann 187 (whereabouts uncertain, not G)
Microchloa altera (Rendle) Stapf [family POACEAE], in Fl. Cap. 7: 637 (1900)
Microchloa altera Stapf var. nelsonii [family POACEAE], in Fl. Cap. 7: 637 (1900). Type: South Africa, Transvaal, Nelson 14 (K, holo.!)
Rendlia mutica (Hack.) Chiov. [family POACEAE], in Ann. Bot. Roma 13: 54 (1914)
Rendlia obtusifolia Chiov. [family POACEAE], in Ann. Bot. Roma 13: 54 (1914). Type: Zaire, Katanga, Bovone 91 (whereabouts uncertain, not Fl, TO)
Rendlia nelsonii (Stapf) Chiov. [family POACEAE], in Ann. Bot. Roma 13: 54 (1914)
Information
Small, densely caespitose perennial, the base often clad in the fibrous remains of old leaf-sheaths. Culms up to 30(–70) cm. high, slender, erect, wiry, glabrous to woolly tomentose. Leaf-blades very narrow, often filiform, 3–25 cm. long, rarely more than 1.5 mm. wide, folded or very rarely expanded, erect, often curved, glabrous or hairy towards the base, tapering to a blunt or obtuse tip. Spike 2–7(–9) cm. long, erect, straight or curved. Spikelets 4–5.5 mm. long; glumes subequal, 3.8–5.5 mm. long, glabrous or sometimes ± lanose; lower lemma (2.3–)2.9–4(–4.5) mm. long, pubescent to ciliate on the keel (rarely glabrous), densely ciliate with white to reddish hairs on the margins, obtusely bilobed or entire; upper floret banana-shaped, ±2.5 mm. long, ♂ or barren. Fig. 93.
Range
DISTR. T7 southwards to South Africa
Altitude range
2250–2400 m.
Distribution
TANZANIA Iringa District uplands without precise locality, W. J. Hill 32 !TANZANIA Njombe District Ukinga-Upangwa-E. Ubena area, W. J. Hill in Herb. Amani H.3/30 /37! & Elton Plateau, Oct. 1963, Procter 2442 !
Notes
The species is rather variable and has been subdivided, but the characters intergrade to such an extent that no clear divisions can be recognized.

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