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Sacciolepis africana

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Name

Identification
Isotype of Sacciolepis africana C.E.Hubb. & Snowden [family POACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on sheet,
Related name
  • Panicum interruptum
  • Sacciolepis africana
Common name
  • hσmbσ (NWT) kintibo (NWT) (SIERRA LEONE, LOKO), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 2
  • kσbσrч̃ (FCD) (SIERRA LEONE, MANDING-MANDINKA), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 2
  • umpôlpôl (JDES) (GUINEA-BISSAU, PEPEL), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 2
  • nyara fingho (Macluskie) (THE GAMBIA, MANDING-MANDINKA), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 2
  • birikolonosεfine (NWT) (SIERRA LEONE, KORANKO), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 2
  • ε-linke (NWT) (SIERRA LEONE, TEMNE), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 2
  • tamedi-sara-na applies to Acroceras and probably to similar fodder grasses (FCD) (SIERRA LEONE, YALUNKA), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 2
  • bu su (Har.) (LIBERIA, MANO), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 2
  • be (NWT) (SIERRA LEONE, MENDE), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 2
  • kulugu savandé (Scholz) (UPPER VOLTA, MOORE), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 2
  • babaci (auctt.) bubuci (JMD; ZOG) (NIGERIA, HAUSA), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 2
  • kuli (NWT) (SIERRA LEONE, SUSU), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 2

Flora

Entry for SACCIOLEPIS africana C.E. Hubbard & Snowden [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
SACCIOLEPIS africana C.E. Hubbard & Snowden [family POACEAE], in K.B. 1936: 294 (1936); Ann. list grasses Ug.: 40 (1947); F.P.N.A. 3: 110 (1955); F.P.S. 3: 526 (1956); I.G.U.: 52 (1960); G.T.: 56 (1965); Clayton in F.W.T.A., ed. 2, 3: 425 (1972). Type: Nigeria, Sokoto, Dalziel 478 (K, holo.!)
Information
Rhizomatous perennial; culms 30–180 cm. high, thick, spongy, decumbent and rooting below. Leaf-blades 5–40 cm. long, 3–15 mm. wide. Panicle cylindrical, 4–30 cm. long. Spikelets plumply elliptic, dorsally compressed, 2.5–4 mm. long, light green, glabrous, obtuse to subacute; lower glume subrotund, ± 1/4 the length of the spikelet; upper glume herbaceous, prominently nerved; lower floret sterile, its palea ± reduced. Fig. 120.
Range
DISTR. U1–4; K5; T1, 4, 6, 8; Z; P throughout tropical Africa
Altitude range
0–1600 m.
Distribution
KENYA C. Kavirondo District Maseno, Aug. 1958 McMahon 9!TANZANIA Mpanda District Kasoje, 17 July 1959, Newbould & Harley 444!TANZANIA Ufipa District Kasanga, 30 Mar. 1959, McCallum Webster T229!TANZANIA Kilosa District Kispeire, 5 July 1973, Greenway & Kanuri 15343!TANZANIA Zanzibar I., Mtoni Swamp, Feb. 1931, Vaughan 1288!TANZANIA Pemba I., Ole, 22 Sept. 1974, Mosha 2082UGANDA Acholi District Abera, 9 Nov. 1945, A.S. Thomas 4330!UGANDA Teso District Arabaka Dam, 30 July 1967, Kabuye 91!UGANDA Mbale District Bukedi district, 23 Jan. 1928, Snowden 1257!
Notes
On average the African (S. africana) and Asian (S. interrupta) species are rather different, the former being distinguished by its shorter plumper obtuse spikelets. However, there is a good deal of local variation in both species, so that individual characters overlap considerably. Fortunately the separation is fairly sharp in East Africa, and a correspondingly truncated range of variation has been used in the key.

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