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Setaria schweinfurthii

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Name

Identification
Isotype of Setaria schweinfurthii R.A.W.Herrm. [family POACEAE ] Setaria restioidea (Franch.) Stapf [family POACEAE ] (stored under name);
Related name
  • Setaria schweinfurthii
  • Setaria restioidea

Flora

Entry for SETARIA restioidea (Franch.) 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
SETARIA restioidea (Franch.) Stapf [family POACEAE], in F.T.A. 9: 811 (1930); Fl. Agrost. Congo Belge 2: 268 (1934); Ann. list grasses Ug.: 42 (1947); F.P.S. 3: 534 (1956);I.G.U.: 54 (1960). Type: Congo, Brazzaville, Brazza & Thollon 70 (K, iso.!)
Panicum restioideum Franch. [family POACEAE], in Bull. Soc. Hist. Nat. Autun 8: 353 (1895)
Setaria schweinfurthii Herm. [family POACEAE], in Beitr. Biol. Pflanz. 10: 48 (1910); Troupin, Fl. Garamba 1: 80 (1956); F.P.S. 3: 534 (1956). Type: Sudan, Seriba Ghattas, Schweinfurth 2050 (K, iso.!)
Setaria ipamuensis Vanderyst [family POACEAE], in Bull. Agric. Congo Belge 16: 683 (1925). Type: Zaire, Idiofa, Vanderyst 8659 (BR, holo.!)
Information
Caespitose perennial; culms 60–150 cm. high, often wiry. Leaf-blades often convolute, 10–60 cm. long, 1–4 mm. wide, attenuate to a filiform tip. Panicle spiciform, 5–18 cm. long, very dense, the rhachis tomentellous to pilose; bristles 2–8 mm. long, slender, flexuous, fuscous, copious. Spikelets elliptic, 2–2.5 mm. long, dorsally compressed, buried among the bristles, readily deciduous; glumes up to 1/2 as long as the spikelet; lower floret sterile without a palea, its lemma membranous; upper lemma finely longitudinally striate.
Range
DISTR. U1
Altitude range
1000–1200 m.
Distribution
UGANDA Acholi District Aswa R., 20 Nov. 1945, A.S. Thomas 4421!UGANDA no precise locality, Fiennes 180 A!
Distribution (external)
Zaire
Sudan
Angola
Notes
Related to S. rigida Stapf from South Africa, which has scanty stiff bristles, the larger of them grooved on the outer face.

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