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Sacciolepis lebrunii

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Identification
Isotype of Sacciolepis lebrunii Robyns [family POACEAE ] (stored under name);
Related name
  • Sacciolepis spiciformis
  • Sacciolepis myosuroides
  • Sacciolepis lebrunii

Flora

Entry for SACCIOLEPIS huillensis (Rendle) Stapf [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 huillensis (Rendle) Stapf [family POACEAE], in F.T.A. 9: 755 (1920); Ann. list Nyasaland grasses: 57 (1958); G.T.: 55 (1965). Type: Angola, Humpata, Welwitsch 2699 (K, iso.!)
Panicum huillense Rendle [family POACEAE], Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw. 2: 174 (1899)
Sacciolepis lebrunii Robyns [family POACEAE], in B.J.B.B. 9: 185 (1932); Fl. Agrost. Congo Belge 2: 236 (1934). Type: Zaire, Amadi to Poko, Lebrun 3109 (K, iso.!)
Sacciolepis micrococca [family POACEAE], [sensu G.T.: 55 (1965), non Mez]
Information
Annual, growing in clumps; culms 5–70 cm. high. Leaf-blades linear, 2–20 cm. long, 1–5 mm. wide, papillose on the nerves above. Panicle cylindrical, slender, 1–14 cm. long. Spikelets ovate, slightly laterally compressed, 1–1.7 mm. long, glabrous or hispidulous; lower glume ovate, 1/3–2/3 as long as the spikelet; upper glume membranous; lower floret barren with a palea 0.2–0.5(–0.8) mm. long; upper lemma 1/2–3/4 as long as the spikelet, white to light brown.
Range
DISTR. U3; T3–8; Z westwards to Cameroun; southwards to Natal;
Altitude range
0–1650 m.
Distribution
TANZANIA Tanga District Sawa, 31 July 1965, Faulkner 3602!TANZANIA Singida District Kiomboi, 30 Apr. 1962, Polhill & Paulo 2256a!TANZANIA Kilosa District SW. boundary, 20 June 1973, Greenway & Kanuri 15193!TANZANIA Zanzibar I., Mahonda, 31 July 1963, Faulkner 3234!UGANDA Busoga District Igwe, 17 Oct. 1950, G.H. Wood 79!
Distribution (external)
Madagascar
Notes
Closely related to the preceding, both species having a distinctive papillose upper leaf epidermis. S. huillensis is recognized mainly by its slightly longer spikelets, which extend beyond the tip of the upper lemma. It is distinguished from S. spiciformis (A. Rich.) Stapf, a little known Ethiopian species, only by the slightly longer spikelets (1.8–2 mm.) of the latter.

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