Setaria oligochaeteK. Schum. [family GRAMINEAE ] Verified by Not on sheet, Setaria plicatilis(Hochst.) Hack. ex Engl. [family GRAMINEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on sheet,
Related name
Ptychophyllum plicatile
Setaria oligochaete
Setaria plicatilis
Setaria acuta
Panicum plicatile
Panicum nepalense
Setaria megaphylla
Flora
Entry for SETARIA megaphylla (Steud.) T. Durand & Schinz [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 megaphylla(Steud.) T. Durand & Schinz [family POACEAE], (1894).
Clump-forming perennial up to 300 cm high, the stems stout and erect or slender and radiating outwards to form a leafy tuft with emergent flowering shoots; leaves broadly linear to narrowly lanceolate, conspicuously pleated, sometimes falsely petiolate. Panicle linear to lanceolate, 10–60 cm long, with short projecting, ascending or appressed densely spiculate branches, the rhachis puberulous; bristles 3–15 mm long, often inconspicuous. Spikelets narrowly ovate to elliptic, 2.2–3.5 mm long; lower glume 1/3–1/2 the length of the spikelet; upper glume 1/2–3/4 the length of the spikelet; lower floret male or barren; upper lemma smooth or obscurely rugose, often shiny, becoming light brown.
Range
N1 tropical Africa and Arabia southwards to South Africa, also in tropical America
Altitude range
above 1700 m.
Distribution
SOMALIA Bally & Melville 16221; Wood 73/116.
Distribution (external)
India
Notes
Typically a robust plant, but variants of more slender habit and shorter stature, and with a tendency towards a male lower floret have been segregated as S. plicatilis. To what extent these differences are environmentally controlled is impossible to say, especially from herbarium material, but it seems that recognising them as species criteria is perhaps overemphasising them.
