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Setaria avettae

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Name

Identification
Setaria incrassata (Hochst.) Hack. [family GRAMINEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Data not digitized, Setaria avettae Pirotta [family GRAMINEAE ] Verified by Data not digitized,
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  • Setaria incrassata
  • Setaria avettae

Flora

Entry for SETARIA incrassata (Hochst.) Hack. [family POACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Somalia
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Somalia, Vol 4, (1995) Author: by T. A. Cope [updated by M. Thulin 2008]
Names
SETARIA incrassata (Hochst.) Hack. [family POACEAE], (1891).
SETARIA avettae Pirotta [family POACEAE], (1896).
Information
Tufted perennial arising from a short rhizome; stems up to 200 cm high, pubescent at the nodes; leaves flat or inrolled, attenuate to a filiform tip. Panicle contracted, spike-like, cylindrical or somewhat interrupted, 3–30 cm long, the bristles pallid, often with purple tips, sometimes wholly purple, the rhachis tomentellous to sparsely pilose; bristles 2–15 mm long. Spikelets broadly ovate to gibbously suborbicular, somewhat laterally compressed, 2–3(–4) mm long; lower glume 1/2–2/3 the length of the spikelet; upper glume 2/3 as long to as long as the spikelet, 7- to 9-nerved; lower floret male; upper lemma punctate to obscurely rugose.
Range
S2, 3 tropical and South Africa.
Distribution
SOMALIA Rose Innes 654; Deshmukh 427.

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