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Snowdenia microcarpha

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Name

Identification
Isotype of Snowdenia microcarpha C.E.Hubb. [family POACEAE ] (stored under name);
Related name
  • Beckera microcarpha
  • Snowdenia microcarpha

Flora

Entry for SNOWDENIA microcarpha C.E. Hubbard [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
SNOWDENIA microcarpha C.E. Hubbard [family POACEAE], in K.B. 1929: 31 (1929); Ann. list grasses Ug.: 43 (1947); I.G.U.: 55 (1960). Type: Uganda, Mt. Elgon, Snowden 1228 (K, holo.!)
Information
Annual; culms weak, 15–30 cm. high, decumbent and rooting at the nodes below, rambling above. Leaf-blades linear-lanceolate, 1–3 cm. long, 2–5 mm. wide; sheaths smooth, or pubescent near the top, not scabrid. Racemes 2–4 cm. long. Spikelets lanceolate, 3.5–4 mm. long; lower lemma acuminate to a slender awn 3–5 mm. long; upper lemma acute, mucronate.
Range
DISTR. U3 known only from Uganda
Altitude range
2300 m.
Distribution
UGANDA Mbale District Mt. Elgon, Butandiga, 9 Dec. 1927, Snowden 1228!
Notes
Possibly no more than a variant of S. petitiana.

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