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Streptogyna crinita

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Name

Identification
Streptogyna crinita P.Beauv. [family POACEAE ]
Related name
  • Streptogyna crinita
Common name
  • atiéréfos (B&D) (IVORY COAST, AKAN-ASANTE), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 2
  • etwã (FRI; E&A) (GHANA, AKAN-ASANTE), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 2
  • naganage (NWT; JMD) (SIERRA LEONE, LIMBA), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 2
  • buragai, kongeŋgi (NWT) naga-naga (FCD) nanaka (JMD) nanaŋa (NWT) (SIERRA LEONE, LOKO), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 2
  • kpa mussé (B&D) (IVORY COAST, ‘NÉKÉDIÉ’), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 2
  • èmokok (JB) (SENEGAL, DIOLA), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 2
  • dilag-boinyondo, malomboenda (FCD) (SIERRA LEONE, KISSI), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 2
  • tuabiya (FCD) (SIERRA LEONE, KONO), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 2
  • kaiyowo, kayowo when not in seed (FCD) yoyavi esp. when in seed (auctt.) (SIERRA LEONE, MENDE), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 2
  • ε-, ka-sarẻk (auctt.) ε-sul (NWT) (SIERRA LEONE, TEMNE), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 2
  • fσtom-boŋsεkhεdekhσle-na (FCD) (SIERRA LEONE, YALUNKA), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 2
  • dontrè (B&D) (IVORY COAST, BAULE), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 2
  • kwamossé, kwamurè, pamussè, yoè (B&D) (IVORY COAST, KRU-GUERE (Chiehn)), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 2
  • ako ọzọ (NWT; JMD) (NIGERIA, IGBO), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 2
  • kyeretwẽ = catch antelope (FRI: E&A) (GHANA, FANTE), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 2
  • damordégad (K&A) (SENEGAL, BANYUN), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 2
  • gie kia ku (Har.) (LIBERIA, MANO), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 2
  • sibile (NWT) sibire (NWT) (SIERRA LEONE, KORANKO), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 2
  • detshεngã (FRI) wondu wondu (FRI; AS Thomas) (GHANA, ADANGME-KROBO), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 2

Flora

Entry for STREPTOGYNA crinita P. Beauv. [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
STREPTOGYNA crinita P. Beauv. [family POACEAE], Ess. Agrost.: 80, t. 16/8 (1812); C. E. Hubbard in Hook., Ic. Pl. 36, t. 3572 (1956); F.P.S. 3: 549 (1956); G.T.: 12 (1965). Type: Nigeria, Palisot de Beauvois (G, holo.!)
STREPTOGYNA gerontogaea Hook. f. [family POACEAE], in Trimen, Fl. Ceyl. 5: 301 (1900); Ann. list. grasses Ug.: 58 (1947). Type: Ceylon, Thwaites 922 (K, holo.!)
Information
Culms 30–150 cm. high, arising from scaly rhizomes. Leaf-blades narrowly lanceolate to narrowly elliptic, 10–40 cm. long and 1–3.6 cm. broad; ligule up to 2 mm. long, ciliolate. Raceme 11–30 cm. long, the spikelets imbricate and borne upon short pedicels 1–2 mm. long. Spikelets 22–30 mm. long, dark green to brown; lower glume 3–10 mm. long; upper glume 17–23 mm. long; fertile lemmas narrowly oblong-lanceolate, 18–22 mm. long, appressedly pubescent below, and narrowed into a shortly bearded subacute callus 1.5–2.5 mm. long; awn scaberulous, up to 25 mm. long; stigmas 2, 1–2 cm. long, retrorsely spinulose; ovary pilose above. Fig. 8.
Range
DISTR. U1, 2, 4; T6 West Africa
Altitude range
300–1000 m.
Distribution
TANGANYIKA Ulanga District near Kiberege, Maganga–Mangula, Oct. 1960, Haerdi 614/0!UGANDA Acholi District Gulu, Zoka Forest, 17 Nov. 1941, A. S. Thomas 4031!UGANDA Mengo District Damba I., Muvo Landing, 22 Dec. 1949, Dawkins 459! & Damba I., 3 Apr. 1925, Maitland 801!
Distribution (external)
Congo
Sudan Republics
India
Ceylon
Notes
The name S. crinita has commonly been misapplied to the American species S. americana C. E. Hubbard. The latter is a caespitose plant without rhizomes, and with narrower leaf-blades, glabrous lemma, callus and ovary, and 3 scaberulous stigmas. The dispersal mechanism is unusual, for the springy rhachilla-internode appressed to the base of the lemma makes a most effective trap for hairs; at maturity the disarticulated lemmas dangle like fish-hooks from their tangled stigmas.

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