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Sporobolus helvolus

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Name

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 podotrichus
  • Sporobolus ioclados
  • Sporobolus trichophorus
  • Sporobolus senegalensis
  • Vilfa glauca
  • Sporobolus glaucifolius
  • Vilfa glaucifolia
  • Sporobolus helvolus
  • Vilva glaucifolia
  • Agrostis not on sheet
  • Sporobolus robustus
Common name
  • màndà-mábdàà (Golding; ZOG) (NIGERIA, HAUSA), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 2
  • schakatee (Davey) (MALI, MANDING-BAMBARA), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 2
  • afer (A.Chev.) (MALI, TAMACHEK), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 2
  • ngarziiri (ABM) (NIGER, FULA-FULFULDE (Niger)), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 2
  • sakatéré (Davey) (MALI, FULA-PULAAR (Mali)), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 2

Flora

Entry for SPOROBOLUS helvolus (Trin.) 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
SPOROBOLUS helvolus (Trin.) T. Durand & Schinz [family POACEAE], (1895).
SPOROBOLUS senegalensis (Hochst. ex Steud.) Chiov. var. glaucifolius [family POACEAE], Fl. Somala 1: 334 (1929).
SPOROBOLUS podotrichus Chiov. [family POACEAE], (1896);. type: S Somalia, “Webi”, Robecchi-Bricchetti 241 (FT holo.);
SPOROBOLUS senegalensis (Chiov.) Chiov. var. podotrichus [family POACEAE], loc. cit. (1929). [type as above]
SPOROBOLUS trichophorus Gand. [family POACEAE], (1922);. type: S2, Fiori 44 (LY holo.).
SPOROBOLUS senegalensis Chiov. var. microstachys [family POACEAE], Pl. Nov. Aethiop.: 251 (1928);. type: C2, Puccioni & Stefanini 206 (FT holo.).
Information
Tufted perennial up to 60 cm high, with slender stolons, the stems wiry, about 1 mm in diam. at the base; leaves flat, glaucous. Panicle linear to narrowly lanceolate, 4–12 cm long, the primary branches bearing spikelets or densely spiculate branchlets from the base, mostly appressed to the axis but sometimes somewhat spreading. Spikelets 1.4–2 mm long; glumes narrowly lanceolate to lanceolate, acuminate, the lower 1-nerved, sometimes a little shorter than the upper; lemma narrowly ovate, acute, as long as the upper glume; anthers 3, 0.6–0.8 mm long. Grain ellipsoid, c. 0.5 mm long.
Range
N1–3; C1, 2; S1–3 tropical Africa to India.
Altitude range
10–760 m.
Distribution
SOMALIA Hansen & Heemstra 6190; Glover & Gilliland 1040; Hansen & Heemstra 6310; Bally & Melville 15352; Rose Innes 841; Gillett & Hemming 24268; Rose Innes & Trump 935; Rose Innes 667.
Notes
Aggagar, dabro, domar, dub derigan, jarbo, saydho (Som.).

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