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Styppeiochloa gynoglossa

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Identification
Styppeiochloa gynoglossa (Gooss.) De Winter [family POACEAE ]
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Flora

Entry for Styppeiochloa gynoglossa Gooss. De Winter [family GRAMINEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Zambesiaca
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
FZ, Vol 10, Part 2, (1999) Author: T. Cope
Names
Styppeiochloa gynoglossa Gooss. De Winter [family GRAMINEAE], in Bothalia 9: 136 (1966). —Gibbs Russell et al., Grasses Southern Africa [Mem. Bot. Surv. S. Africa No. 58]: 330 (1990). TAB. 2. Type from South Africa (Transvaal).
Crinipes gynoglossa Gooss. [family GRAMINEAE], in Bull. Misc. Inform., Kew 1934: 200 (1934). —Chippindall in Meredith, Grasses & Pastures of South Africa: 123 (1955).
Information
Densely caespitose sclerophyllous perennial up to 75 cm tall, erect or geniculately ascending; leaf laminas 4–25 cm long, convolute, somewhat rigid.Panicle 3–10 cm long, narrowly elliptic, usually contracted and dense.Spikelets 4.5–7.5 mm long; glumes unequal, the inferior 3.1–3.4 mm long, lanceolate, 1(3)-nerved, the superior 3.4–3.8 mm long, broadly lanceolate, 1–3(5)-nerved; lemmas 3.2–3.3 mm long (excluding awn), broadly lanceolate to oblong-elliptic; awn 1.5–2.5 mm long.
Habitat
In montane and submontane grasslands, growing preferably in seepage areas on rocks overlaid by a thin layer of soil. Often to be found in extensive patches
Distribution
Mozambique M Namaacha, 16.xii.1952, Myre & Carvalho 1312 (SRGH).Mozambique MS Gorongosa Mt., Gogogo summit area, i.1952, Tinley 2316 (K; SRGH).Zimbabwe E Chimanimani (Melsetter), 18.iv.1957, Goodier & Phipps 20 (SRGH).
Distribution (external)
South Africa (Mpumalanga, KwaZulu-Natal)
Swaziland

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