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Sporobolus glaucifolius

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Identification
Sporobolus glaucifolius (Steud.) T.Durand & Schinz [family POACEAE ] Sporobolus helvolus (Trin.) T.Durand & Schinz [family POACEAE ] (stored under name);
Related name
  • Sporobolus flagelliferus
  • Sporobolus glaucifolius
  • Vilfa glaucifolia
  • Sporobolus helvolus

Flora

Entry for SPOROBOLUS helvolus (Trin.) 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, Part (Part 2), page 177, (1974) Author: W. D. CLAYTON, S. M. PHILLIPS AND S. A. RENVOIZE
Names
SPOROBOLUS helvolus (Trin.) Th. Dur. & Schinz [family POACEAE], ,Consp. Fl. Afr. 5: 820 (1895); Ann. list grasses Ug.: 45 (1947); Imp. grassl. pl. Kenya: 40 (1951); F.P.S. 3: 548 (1956); R.K.G.: 28 (1958); I.G.U.: 56 (1960); G.T.: 47 (1965); Clayton in F.W.T.A., ed. 2, 3: 408 (1972). Types: Arabia, Habessin, Ehrenberg & Senegal, Dagana, Leprieur & Richard Tol, Lelièvre (all LE, syn.!)
Vilfa helvola Trin. [family POACEAE], in Mém. Acad. Sci. Pétersb., sér. 6, 2: 52 (1840)
Vilfa glaucifolia Steud. [family POACEAE], Syn. Pl. Glum. 1: 154 (1854). Type: Sudan, Kordofan, Kotschy 74 (K, TUB, iso. !)
Sporobolus glaucifolius (Steud.) Th. Dur. & Schinz [family POACEAE], Consp. Fl. Afr. 5: 820 (1895)
Sporobolus podotrichus Chiov. [family POACEAE], in Ann. Ist. Bot. Roma 6: 168 (1896). Type: Somali Republic (S.), R. Webi, Robecchi-Briccheti 241 (FI, holo. !)
Sporobolus trichophorus Gand. [family POACEAE], in Bull. Soc. Bot. Fr. 69: 351 (1922). Type: Somali Republic (S.), Benadir Giumbo, Fiori 44 (LY, holo. !, FI, iso. !)
Sporobolus senegalensis Chiov. var. microstachyus [family POACEAE], Pl. Nov. Min. Not. Aeth.: 26 (1928). Type: Somali Republic (S.), Bugda, Puccioni & Stefanini 206 (FI, holo.!)
Sporobolus senegalensis (Steud.) Chiov. var. glaucifolius [family POACEAE], ., Fl. Somala: 334 (1929)
Sporobolus senegalensis (Chiov.) Chiov. var. podotrichus [family POACEAE], ., Fl. Somala: 334 (1929)
Sporobolus flagelliferus Peter [family POACEAE], F.D.O.-A. 1, Anh.: 82 (1930). Types: Tanzania, Lushoto District, Buiko, Peter 10344b (B, syn. †) & Mkomazi-Buiko, Peter 41034b (B, syn. †) & Peter 41012 (B, syn., K, photo. !)
Sporobolus modestus Peter [family POACEAE], F.D.O.-A. 1: 288 (1931), nom. nud. Based on Peter 10344b from Tanzania
Information
Tufted perennial with long slender stolons; culms wiry, 15–60 cm. high, ± 1 mm. in diameter at the base. Leaf-blades flat, 2–15 cm. long, 2–4 mm. wide, glaucous, tapering to a filiform tip. Panicle linear to narrowly lanceolate, 4–12 cm. long, 5–20 mm. wide, usually distinctly branched with the primary branches 0.5–2 cm. long and bearing dense clusters of spikelets from the base, sometimes contracted and subspiciform. Spikelets 1.4–2 mm. long, greenish brown; glumes narrowly lanceolate to lanceolate, as long as the spikelet or the lower a little shorter, smooth or scaberulous, acuminate; lemma narrowly ovate, as long as the glumes, acute; anthers 3, 0.6–0.8 mm. long. Grain ellipsoid, 0.5 mm. long.
Range
DISTR. U1; K1–4, 6, 7; T1–7 Mauritania to the Somali Republic, Arabia and India
Altitude range
200–1500 m.
Distribution
KENYA Northern Frontier Province El Wak, 26 May 1952, Gillett 13338 !KENYA Machakos District Kiboko, 17 Feb. 1949, Bogdan 2285 !KENYA Teita District Tsavo National Park East, Voi Gate to Sobo Rocks, 9 Jan. 1967, Greenway & Kanuri 13000 !TANZANIA Masai District Ngaserai, 3 June 1965, Leippert 5828 ! & Ardai plain, 29 June 1944, Greenway 7015!TANZANIA Mbeya District Buhoro Flats, July 1959, Procter 1300!UGANDA Karamoja District near R. Apule, 29 Oct. 1939, A. S. Thomas 3099! & 5 km. W. of Moroto, 22 Oct. 1956, Langdale-Brown 1566 !
Notes
Distinguished from 20, S. virginicus and 21, S. consimilis by the wiry culms and acuminate glumes.

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