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Sporobolus phyllotrichus

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Identification
Sporobolus phyllotrichus Hochst. [family POACEAE ] Verified by unknown, Sporobolus nervosus Hochst. [family POACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Clayton, W. D.,
Related name
  • Sporobolus affinis
  • Sporobolus nervosus
  • Sporobolus phyllotrichus
  • Sporobolus confinis

Flora

Entry for SPOROBOLUS confinis (Steud.) Chiov. [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 confinis (Steud.) Chiov. [family POACEAE], in Ann. Ist. Bot. Roma 8: 341 (1908). Type: Ethiopia, Tigre, Shire [Chiré], Quartin Dillon (P, holo.!)
SPOROBOLUS affinis A. Rich. [family POACEAE], Tent. Fl. Abyss. 2: 396 (1851), non Kunth (1829), nec Vilfa affinis (Kunth) Steud. (1841), nom. illegit. Type: as for species
Vilfa confinis Steud. [family POACEAE], Syn. Pl. Glum. 1: 160 (1854)
Sporobolus phyllotrichus Hochst. [family POACEAE], in Flora 38: 201 (1855); R.K.G.: 29 (1958) G.T.: 48 (1965). Type: Ethiopia, Schimper in Herb. Buchinger 1312 (whereabouts uncertain, not TUB, P)
Information
Strongly rhizomatous perennial, with long slender creeping rhizomes, the basal sheaths neither fibrous nor indurated; culms 30–60 cm. high, erect or geniculately ascending. Leaf-blades flat, fairly short, 5–15 cm. long, 2–6 mm. wide, the tip filiform. Panicle narrowly ovate, 8–15 cm. long, secondarily branched, the branches bare for their lower 1/3 and the spikelets in secund clusters at the tips of the branchlets. Spikelets 1.6–2.1 mm. long, smooth or scaberulous, dark green; lower glume lanceolate to narrowly oblong, 0.7–1.2 mm. long; upper glume narrowly ovate, 1.2–1.9 mm long, 3/4–4/5 as long as the spikelet; lemma narrowly ovate, as long as the spikelet; anthers 3, 0.9–1.1 mm. long. Grain ellipsoid, 0.7–0.8 mm. long.
Range
DISTR. K1–7; T1, 2
Altitude range
1500–2300 m.
Distribution
KENYA Northern Frontier Province Moyale, 16 Apr. 1952, Gillett 12815 !KENYA Naivasha District E. side of Lake Elmenteita, 27 June 1948, Bogdan 1819 !KENYA Masai District Mara R., Ngebai Langata Endul, 3 Apr. 1961, Glover, Gwynne & Samwell [ Paulo ] 352 !TANZANIA Masai District Ngorongoro crater floor, NE. side, 11 June 1965, Greenway & Kanuri 11844 !TANZANIA Mbulu District S. slopes of Mt. Hanang, Katesh, 15 Feb. 1946, Greenway 7749!TANZANIA Musoma District Wogakuria Hill near Mara R., 30 Dec. 1964, Greenway & Turner in E.A.H. 13124 !
Distribution (external)
Ethiopia
Notes
Allied to 31, S. fimbriatus, being distinguished by its clustered spikelets, rather spindly culms and slender rhizomes.

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