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Rhytachne pilosa

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Name

Identification
Rhytachne pilosa Ballard & Hubbard [family POACEAE ] Loxodera bovonei (Chiov.) Launert [family POACEAE ] (stored under name);
Related name
  • Rhytachne pilosa
  • Loxodera bovonei

Flora

Entry for Loxodera bovonei Chiov. Launert [family GRAMINEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Zambesiaca
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
FZ, Vol 10, Part 4, (2002) Author: T. A. Cope
Names
Loxodera bovonei Chiov. Launert [family GRAMINEAE], in Senckenberg. Biol. 46: 122 (1965). Type from Dem. Rep. Congo.
Rottboellia bovonei Chiov. [family GRAMINEAE], in Ann. Bot. (Rome) 13: 36 (1914).
Rhytachne bovonei Chiov. Chiov. [family GRAMINEAE], in Nuovo Giorn. Bot. Ital., n.s. 26: 73 (1919).
Loxodera rigidiuscula Launert [family GRAMINEAE], in Bol. Soc. Brot., sér. 2, 37: 81 (1963). Type: Zambia N: Mbala Distr., Vesey-FitzGerald 2936 (BM, holotype; SRGH).
Rhytachne pilosa F. Ballard & C.E. Hubb. [family GRAMINEAE], in Bull. Misc. Inform., Kew 1934: 108 (1934). Type: Zambia W: Mwinilunga Distr., Milne-Redhead 987 (K, holotype).
Information
Densely caespitose perennial; culms up to 95 cm high; leaf laminas 7–20 cm × 2–5 mm. Raceme 6–9 cm long, stiff, grey; internodes narrowly clavate, densely pubescent, the scarious rim at the summit complete and concealing much of the callus. Sessile spikelet lanceolate-oblong; inferior glume 6.5–10 mm long, densely long-pilose to appressed tuberculate-hispid, the nerves raised but not prominently rib-like, the margins not muricate. Pedicelled spikelet much reduced, up to 6 mm long including the occasional awn of the inferior glume.
Habitat
Growing in upland dambos
Altitude range
1370–1680 m.
1680
1370
Distribution
Zambia W Mwinilunga Distr., Chinkobolo (Sinkabolo) Dambo, 20.x.1937, Milne-Redhead 2866 (K; PRE).Zambia N Mbala Distr., Safu Dambo, north of Chilwa School, 1680 m, 23.x.1967, Simon, Williamson & Richards 1165 (K; PRE).
Distribution (external)
Dem. Rep. Congo
Notes
A variable species, especially in the indumentum of the inferior glume. This ranges from long-pilose to stiffly hispid, but always covers the glume from base to apex. The nerves of the glume are not so prominently rib-like as in other members of the genus, and the glume of the pedicelled spikelet is sometimes awned.

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