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Stiburus alopecuroides

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Identification
Stiburus alopecuroides (Hack.) Stapf [family POACEAE ]
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Flora

Entry for STIBURUS alopecuroides Stapf [family POACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Capensis
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Capensis, Vol 7, page 310, (1900) Author: (By O. STAPF.)
Names
STIBURUS alopecuroides Stapf [family POACEAE]
Lasiochloa alopecuroides Hack. [family POACEAE], in Bull. Herb. Boiss. iii. 393.
Triphlebia alopecuroides Stapf [family POACEAE], in Hook. Icon. Pl. t. 2612.
Kœleria Gerrardi Munro ex Benth. [family ], in Benth. & Hook. Gen. Pl. iii. 1184 (name only).
Information
densely cæspitose; culms erect, 1/3–1 1/2 ft. long, glabrous, simple, or branched at the base; leaves all basal, with scattered fine spreading hairs all over to glabrous; sheaths crowded, rather firm, pallid, smooth, persistent; blades usually setaceous or filiform, very acute, 3 to more than 12 in. long, sometimes flat and then up to 1 lin. broad, rather rigid; panicle 3/4–3 in. by 3–3 1/2 lin., sometimes interrupted at the base; branches solitary, adpressed to the rhachis; lowest 1/3 to almost 1 in. long, divided from the base or nearly so, smooth; pedicels unequal, mostly very short; spikelets about 2 lin. long, densely crowded, usually dark purple; glumes, valves and pales equally villous from fine greyish hairs; glumes about 1 1/2 lin. long, tips firm, subulate; valves very slightly shorter, often mucronulate; anthers 2/3 lin. long; grain 7/8–1 lin. long, reddish-brown. null
Distribution
EASTERN REGION Pondoland; Fakus Territory, Sutherland! Griqualand East; grassy rocky places on the summit of Malowe Mountain, 6000 ft., Tyson, 2773! MacOwan & Bolus, Herb. Norm. Aust. Afr., 1217! summit of Mount Currie, near Kokstad, 7500 ft.; Tyson, 1311! Natal; De Beers Pass, Wood, 5993! Noods Berg, Wood, 884! Kar Kloof, Rehmann, 7361! Umpumulo to Riet Vlei, Buchanan, 166! 167! and without precise locality, Buchanan, 32! Gerrard, 474!KALAHARI REGION Orange Free State; without precise locality, Cooper, 723! 3352! Transvaal; Spitzkop Goldmine, Wilms, 1697! Lymklip Spruit, Nelson, 52*! Steelport River, Nelson, 12*! Houtbosch Berg, Nelson, 82*!

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