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Rottboellia arundinacea

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Identification
Isotype of Rottboellia arundinacea Hochst. ex A.Rich. [family POACEAE ] Verified by Not on sheet, Rottboellia cochinchinensis (Lour.) Clayton [family POACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on sheet,
Related name
  • Rottboellia arundinacea
  • Rottboellia exaltata
  • Rottboellia cochinchinensis

Flora

Entry for ROTTBOELLIA cochinchinensis (Lour.) 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, page 451, (1982) Author: W. D. CLAYTON and S.A. RENVOIZE
Names
ROTTBOELLIA cochinchinensis (Lour.) W.D. Clayton [family POACEAE], in K.B. 35: 817 (1981). Type: Cochinchina (whereabouts uncertain)
ROTTBOELLIA exaltata L. f. [family POACEAE], Suppl. Pl: 114 (1781); F.T.A. 9: 73 (1917); E.A. Pasture Plants 2: 4 (1927); Fl. Agrost. Congo Belge 1: 64 (1929); Ann. list grasses Ug.: 40 (1947); Imp. Grassl. Pl. Kenya: 86 (1951); F.P.N.A. 3: 42 (1955); F.P.S. 3: 523 (1956); R.K.G.: 63 (1958); Ann. list Nyasaland grasses: 56 (1958); I.G.U.: 51 (1960); G.T.: 113 (1965); Clayton in F.W.T.A., ed. 2, 3: 506 (1972), non (L.) L. f. (1779). Type: “in Indiis”, Thunberg (LINN, holo.!)
Stegosia cochinchinensis Lour. [family POACEAE], Fl. Cochin. 1: 51 (1790)
Rottboellia arundinacea A. Rich. [family POACEAE], Tent. Fl. Abyss. 2: 444 (1851). Type: Ethiopia, Djeladjeranne, Schimper 1459 (K,. iso.!)
Information
Tall annual supported below by stilt roots, the basal-sheaths painfully hispid; culms 30 cm. to 3 m. high. Leaf-blades broadly linear, up to 45 cm. long, 2 cm. wide. Raceme 3–15 cm. long, glabrous, terminating in a tail of reduced spikelets, gathered into a spathate false panicle. Sessile spikelet oblong-elliptic, pallid; lower glume 3.5–5 mm. long; upper glume with the keel narrowly winged towards the tip. Pedicelled spikelet narrowly ovate, 3–5 mm. long, herbaceous, green; pedicel shorter than the internode. Fig. 203.
Range
DISTR. U1–4; K1–5, 7; T1–8; Z throughout the Old World tropics, and introduced to the Caribbean
Altitude range
0–2000 m.
Distribution
KENYA Northern Frontier Province Marsabit, 24 Mar. 1959, Bogdan 4781!KENYA Trans-Nzoia District 24 km. SW. of Kitale, Tilney’s Farm, 27 Aug. 1948, Bogdan 1882!KENYA S. Kavirondo District Lambwe valley, 21 Aug. 1965, Makin 148!TANZANIA Pangani District Kilimangwido area, 10 July 1973, Bond 107!TANZANIA Kondoa District Kikore, 24 Dec. 1930, B.D. Burtt 2666!TANZANIA Iringa District Msembe–Mbagi–Kimiramatonge track junction, 2 Mar. 1970, Greenway & Kanuri 14009!TANZANIA Zanzibar I., Zingwe-Zingwe, 21 Jan. 1929, Greenway 1109!UGANDA Karamoja District Omanimani [Manimani] R. 25 km. W. of Moroto, 27 Aug. 1954, Clayton 78!UGANDA Teso District Serere, May–June 1932, Chandler 766!UGANDA Mbale District Bugishu, Snowden 1117!

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