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Stipagrostis papposa

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Identification
Stipagrostis papposa (Trin. & Rupr.) De Winter [family POACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Lewejohann, K., 1976 Aristida concinna Sonder [family POACEAE ] Verified by Lobin, W., 1981 Stipagrostis uniglumis (Licht.) De Winter [family POACEAE ] Verified by Lobin, W., 1981 Aristida concinna Sonder [family POACEAE ] Verified by Lewejohann, K., 1976
Related name
  • Aristida concinna
  • Aristida papposa
  • Stipagrostis uniglumis
  • Stipagrostis papposa

Flora

Entry for STIPAGROSTIS uniplumis (Licht.) de Winter [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 1), page 1, (1970) Author: W. D. Clayton
Names
STIPAGROSTIS uniplumis (Licht.) de Winter [family POACEAE], in Kirkia 3: 136 (1963) & in Bothalia 8: 359 (1965). Type: South Africa, Cape Province, Lichtenstein (B, holo.!)
Aristida uniplumis Licht. [family POACEAE], in Roem. & Schult., Syst. Veg. 2: 401 (1817); F.D.O.-A. 1: 279 (1930)
Aristida papposa Trin. & Rupr. [family POACEAE], Sp. Gram. Stip.: 173 (1842); Chiov., Fl. Somala 1: 336 (1932); Imp. grassl. pl. Kenya: 46 (1951); F.P.S. 3: 398 (1956); R.K.G.: 33 (1958); I.G.U.: 16 (1960). Type: Sudan Republic, near Khartoum, Kotschy 430 (LE, holo., K, iso.!)
Stipa prolifera Steud. [family POACEAE], Syn. Pl. Glum. 1: 131 (1854). Type: Sudan Republic, Nubia, Kotschy (P, holo.!)
Stipagrostis papposa (Trin. & Rupr.) de Winter [family POACEAE], in Kirkia 3: 135 (1963)
Information
Perennial, sometimes short-lived, usually densely caespitose, up to 75 cm. or more high. Leaf-blades setaceous, convolute, up to 15 cm. long, glabrous beneath, scaberulous above. Panicle 10–15 cm. long, contracted or sometimes effuse. Spikelets pallid; glumes glabrous or with a few hairs on the margins, unequal, the lower 8 mm. long, the upper 9–10 mm. long; lemma 2–3.5 mm. long, finely tuberculate above, abruptly passing into the awn; callus 1 mm. long, acute, bearded, the bristles gradually increasing in length upward; column of awn ± 5 mm. long, with a dense pencil of hairs at the branching point of the awns, otherwise glabrous; central awn 2–3.5 cm. long, plumose in the upper two-thirds; lateral awns naked, up to 12 mm. long. Fig. 46.
Range
DISTR. U1; K1, 2, 4, 6, 7; T2 from Somali Republic to Senegal; also in South Africa, extending northward to Rhodesia and Angola
Altitude range
400–1000 m.
Distribution
KENYA Northern Frontier Province Wajir, 22 June 1951, Kirrika 68! & Jan. 1955, Hemming 456! & Lake Rudolph, 4 May 1962, Pratt KS 49!TANGANYIKA Masai District Angata Salei-Msereki, 14 May 1962, Newbould 6043!UGANDA Karamoja District E. Matheniko, Turkana escarpment, Sept. 1955, J. Wilson 195! & Mar. 1959, J. Wilson 703!
Notes
A species closely allied to, and hybridizing with S. hirtigluma. It is distinguished by the glabrous glumes, the finer tubercles and abruptly narrowed tip of the lemma, the shorter awns with naked column and bearded branching point, and by the callus-hairs which are not arranged in tufts.

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