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Sorghastrum friesii

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Identification
Sorghastrum friesii (Pilg.) Pilg. [family POACEAE ] Verified by Not on sheet, Sorghastrum nudipes Nash [family POACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on sheet,
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  • Sorghastrum nudipes
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Flora

Entry for Sorghastrum nudipes Nash [family GRAMINEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Zambesiaca
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
FZ, Vol 10, Part 4, (2002) Author: T. A. Cope
Names
Sorghastrum nudipes Nash [family GRAMINEAE], N. Amer. Fl. 17: 129 (1912). Type from Mexico.
Sorghum nutans var. angolense Rendle [family GRAMINEAE], in Hiern et al., Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw. 2: 152 (1899). Type from Angola.
Andropogon friesii Pilg. [family GRAMINEAE], in R.E. Fries, Wiss. Ergebn. Schwed. Rhod.-Kongo-Exped. 1: 195 (1916). Type: Zambia, Bangweulu, near Kamindas, Fries 965 and 974 (UPS, syntypes).
Sorghum micratherum Stapf [family GRAMINEAE], in Prain, F.T.A. 9: 142 (1917). —Stent & Rattray in Proc. & Trans. Rhodesia Sci. Assoc. 32: 8 (1933). Type as for S. nutans var. angolense Rendle.
Sorghum friesii Pilg. C.E. Hubb. [family GRAMINEAE], in Bull. Misc. Inform., Kew 1934: 109 (1934). —Simon in Kirkia 8: 20, 54 (1971).
Sorghastrum friesii Pilg. Pilg. [family GRAMINEAE], in Notizbl. Bot. Gart. Berlin-Dahlem 14: 96 (1938). —Setshogo in Kirkia 17: 137 (2001).
Information
Caespitose, shortly rhizomatous perennial up to 120 cm high, often rooting from the lower nodes; culms with velvety-pubescent hairs; leaf sheaths without auricles, glabrous; ligule a glabrous membrane 0.5–1.5 mm long; leaf laminas up to 20 cm × 2–6 mm, linear to linear-lanceolate, usually reflexed, glabrous, expanded at the base. Panicle loose and open with divided primary branches; racemes (2)4–7-jointed, the internodes and pedicels pilose. Sessile spikelet 5–7(8) mm long, lanceolate; callus obtuse, barbate; inferior glume chartaceous, pilose on the back, slightly depressed longitudinally; superior glume chartaceous, glabrous; inferior floret empty, represented by a lemma only, this c. 5 mm long, ovate, hyaline, finely 2-nerved, ciliate on the margins above, emarginate at the apex; upper floret bisexual, epaleate, the lemma c. 4 mm long, bilobed at the apex, the lobes glabrous, awned between the lobes; awn 3–8(10) mm long, straight, glabrous; anthers 4–5 mm long. Pedicelled spikelet absent; pedicel c. 5 mm long, shorter than the sessile spikelet.
Habitat
Typically favours wet areas such as swamps, road drains and stream banks; often on poor sandy soils
Altitude range
0–1400 m.
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Distribution
Caprivi Strip Okavango R., 19 km north of Shakawe, 16.iii.1965, Wild & Drummond 7091 (BM; K).Botswana N Xudum drainage, Okavango, 1000 m, 15.iii.1961, Vesey-FitzGerald 3241 (BM).Zambia B Kabompo Distr., Lusongwa flood plain, 8 km south of Lusongwa School, 850 m, 26.xii.1969, Simon & Williamson 2054 (K).Zimbabwe N Gokwe Distr., c. 0.8 km north of Gokwe, 11.ii.1963, Bingham 484 (K; PRE; SRGH).Malawi C Lilongwe Distr., Naminyanga Dambo, Dzalanyama, 4.xii.1951, Jackson 699 (K).Mozambique MS Beira, ii.1912, Rogers 5939 (K).Zambia N Mbala Distr., Saisi R. near Jericho Range, 27.iii.1958, Vesey-FitzGerald 1547 (K).Zambia C Kabwe Distr., Mushwishi Agric. Station, 1160 m, 8.xii.1953, Hinds 175 (K).Zambia S Mazabuka Distr., Mabwingombe Hills, 5.ii.1960, White 6837 (K).Zimbabwe W Nkayi Distr., Gwampa vlei at Tunke Pan, Gwampa Forest Reserve, 910 m, ii.1956, Goldsmith 31/56 (K).Zimbabwe C Gweru Distr., Gwelo Teachers College, 10.ii.1967, Biegel 1989 (BM; K; PRE; SRGH).Zimbabwe S Masvingo (Victoria), 30.iii.1973, Chiparawasha 665 (K; PRE).
Distribution (external)
South Africa

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