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Setaria poiretiana

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Identification
Setaria caudula Stapf [family POACEAE ] Verified by Not on sheet, Setaria poiretiana (Schult.) Kunth. [family POACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on sheet,
Related name
  • Setaria poiretiana
  • Panicum elongatum
  • Panicum longepaniculatum
  • Setaria caudula

Flora

Entry for SETARIA megaphylla (Steud.) Th. Dur. & Schinz [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
SETARIA megaphylla (Steud.) Th. Dur. & Schinz [family POACEAE], Consp. Fl. Afr. 5: 773 (1894); F.T.A. 9: 840 (1930); Fl. Agrost. Congo Belge 2: 279 (1934); F.P.S. 3: 536 (1956); Clayton in F.W.T.A., ed. 2, 3: 424 (1972) & in K.B. 33: 508 (1979). Type: Gabon, Jardin (P, holo.!)
Panicum megaphyllum Steud. [family POACEAE], Syn. Pl. Glum. 1: 53 (1854)
Panicum phyllomacrum Steud. [family POACEAE], Syn. Pl. Glum. 1: 53 (1854). Type: Gabon, Jardin (P, holo.!)
Panicum prolisetum Steud. [family POACEAE], Syn. Pl. Glum. 1: 52 (1854). Type: Principe I. (P, iso.!)
Setaria macrophylla Anderss. [family POACEAE], in Peters, Reise Mossamb., Bot. 2: 550 (1864). Type: Mozambique, Boror, Peters (B, holo.†)
Setaria phyllomacra (Steud.) Th. Dur. & Schinz [family POACEAE], Consp. Fl. Afr. 5: 774 (1894)
Setaria proliseta (Steud.) Th. Dur. & Schinz [family POACEAE], Consp. Fl. Afr. 5: 774 (1894)
Panicum sulcatum Pilg. var. stenophyllum [family POACEAE], in E.J. 33: 46 (1902). Types: Togo, Kling 225 (B, syn.!) & Angola, Antunes 31 (B, syn.)
Setaria chevalieri Stapf [family POACEAE], in F.T.A. 9: 842 (1930); Fl. Agrost. Congo Belge 2: 282 (1934); Ann. list grasses Ug.: 41 (1947); F.P.N.A. 3: 115 (1955); F.P.S. 3: 537 (1956); R.K.G.: 41 (1958); Ann. list Nyasaland grasses: 58 (1958); I.G.U.: 54 (1960); G.T.: 87 (1965); Clayton in F.W.T.A., ed. 2, 3: 424 (1972). Types: Nigeria, Opobo, Jeffreys 13 (K, syn.!) & many other syntypes
Setaria acuta Stapf & Hubbard [family POACEAE], in F.T.A. 9: 846 (1930); Chiov. et al., Miss. Biol. Borana, Racc. Bot.: 276 (1939). Type: Ethiopia, Amba Sea, Schimper 789 (K, holo.!)
Setaria chevalieri de Wit var. racemosa [family POACEAE], in Bull. Bot. Gaxd. Buitenz., ser. 3, 17: 11 (1941), sine descr. lat. Type: South Africa, Port St. Johns, Galpin 2866 (PRE, holo.!)
Setaria insignis de Wit [family POACEAE], in Bull. Bot. Gard. Buitenz., ser. 3, 17: 13 (1941). Type: South Africa, Port St. Johns, Howlett 35 (PRE, holo.!)
Setaria natalensis de Wit [family POACEAE], in Bull. Bot. Gard. Buitenz., ser. 3, 17: 19 (1941). Type: South Africa, Natal, Buchanan 268 (PRE, holo.!)
Setaria megaphylla (Stapf) Berhaut var. chevalieri [family POACEAE], Fl. Sénégal, ed. 2: 401 (1954)
Setaria poiretiana [family POACEAE], [sensu Rominger in Illinois Biol. Monogr. 29: 23 (1962), non (Schult.) Kunth]
Information
Tall perennial forming large clumps; culms 1–3 m. high, stout (5–10 mm. basal diameter, rarely less) erect. Leaf-blades broadly linear to narrowly lanceolate, 15–80 cm. long, 10–110 mm. wide, conspicuously plicate, sometimes falsely petiolate. Panicle linear to lanceolate, 20–60 cm. long, spire- or pagoda-like, with short stiff densely spiculate branches projecting laterally or ascending, sometimes the lower branches longer and flexuous, the rhachis puberulous; bristles 3–10 mm. long. Spikelets narrowly ovate to elliptic, 2.2–3(–3.5) mm. long, acute (rarely somewhat rostrate or with the lemmas unequal, but then less than 3 mm. long); lower glume 1/3–1/2, the upper 2/3–3/4 the length of the spikelet; lower floret sterile, its lemma firmly membranous, as long as the upper lemma, with or without a palea; upper lemma smooth or almost so, often shiny, becoming light brown.
Range
DISTR. U1–4; K4, 6, 7; T2–8; Z; P tropical and South Africa; tropical America; a few records from India
Altitude range
200–2300 m.
Distribution
KENYA Masai District Endama, 23 June 1961, Glover et al. 1908!KENYA Kwale District 16 Nov. 1948, Allan 500! & Mt. Jombo [Dzombo], 8 Apr. 1968, Magogo & Glover 787!TANZANIA Morogoro District Kimboza Forest Reserve, July 1952, Semsei 801!TANZANIA Ulanga District Mahenge, 30 Apr. 1932, Schlieben 2144! & Nambiga Forest between Iragua and Itete, 20 May 1967, Rees 79!TANZANIA Pemba I., Ngezi Forest Reserve, 9 Oct. 1929, Burtt Davy 2359!UGANDA Toro District Buyayu–Sempayo road, Liebenberg 934!UGANDA Masaka District 1 km. N. of Narozari, 29 July 1971, Lye & Katende 6540!UGANDA Mengo District E. of Kakoge, 14 Dec. 1955, Langdale-Brown 1710!

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