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Thelepogon elegans

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Identification
Thelepogon elegans Roem. & Schult. [family POACEAE ]
Related name
  • Thelepogon elegans
Common name
  • kagera kagum from kagera: bustard (JMD)NOTE: Hausa names allude to the bitter taste. (NIGERIA, KANURI), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 2
  • hanhande (JMD) labaho (Saunders) tagarawal (Taylor) (NIGERIA, FULA-FULFULDE (Nigeria)), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 2
  • daàtà-dáátàá (ZOG) dáátanniyáá (ZOG) dáátannìyár dáácíí (ZOG) dáddáátàà (JMD; ZOG) dandata (JMD) data-data (JMD) δatanniya (auctt.) δatarniya (JMD; ZOG) δwaatanna (auctt.) δwaatarniya (JMD; ZOG) gíshírín dáwaakíí = salt of the horse (JMD; ZOG) (NIGERIA, HAUSA), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 2
  • o-ndeuss (after K&A) σ-ngέn σ-tyérún (FG&G) (SENEGAL, BASARI), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 2

Flora

Entry for THELEPOGON elegans Roem. & Schult. [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, page 451, (1982) Author: W. D. CLAYTON and S.A. RENVOIZE
Names
THELEPOGON elegans Roem. & Schult. [family POACEAE], Syst. Veg. 2: 277 (1817); F.T.A. 9: 34 (1917); Ann. list grasses Ug.: 46 (1947); F.P.S. 3: 551 (1956); Ann. list Nyasaland grasses: 62 (1958); I.G.U.: 58 (1960); G.T.: 95 (1965); Clayton in F.W.T.A., ed. 2, 3: 473 (1972). Type: India, Heyne (B, holo.†)
Andropogon princeps A. Rich. [family POACEAE], Tent. Fl. Abyss, 2: 470, fig. 102 (1851). Type: Ethiopia, Tacazze R., Quart in Dillon & Petit (P, holo.!)
Jardinea abyssinica Steud. [family POACEAE], Syn. Pl. Glum. 1: 360 (1854), nom. superfl. Based on Andropogon princeps
Rhytachne princeps (A. Rich.) Th. Dur. & Schinz [family POACEAE], Consp. Fl. Afr. 5: 700 (1895)
Information
Coarse annual; culms 10–150 cm. high, erect, supported by prop roots. Leaf-blades lanceolate, 4–20 cm. long, 5–30 mm. wide, cordate and often amplexicaul, glabrous or hispidulous, the margins finely pectinate ciliate. Inflorescence composed of 2–17 racemes, the lower verticillate, the upper borne on a short common axis 1–5 cm. long; racemes 4–15 cm. long, very fragile. Sessile spikelet 5–13 mm. long; lower glume narrowly ovate, prominently rugose; upper glume rugose across the back; upper lemma with an awn 1.5–2.5 cm. long. Pedicel glabrous, a little longer than the sessile spikelet. Fig. 174.
Range
DISTR. U1, 3; T1, 2, 4–8 throughout tropical Africa, extending through India to Indonesia
Altitude range
150–1800 m.
Distribution
TANZANIA Shinyanga District Huruhuru Plains, Mar. 1936, B.D. Burtt 5679!TANZANIA Masai District Eluanata, 3 May 1965, Leippert 5727!TANZANIA Singida District 43 km. from Issuna on Singida-Manyoni road, 13 Apr. 1964, Greenway & Polhill 11546!UGANDA Karamoja District Toror Hills, 4 June 1940, A.S. Thomas 3702! & Moroto, 27 Aug. 1954, Clayton 81! & Apedet, 20 July 1957, Dyson-Hudson 304!

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