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Themeda triandra

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Identification
Themeda triandra Forssk. [family POACEAE ]
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Entry for THEMEDA triandra Forssk. [family POACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Somalia
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Somalia, Vol 4, (1995) Author: by T. A. Cope [updated by M. Thulin 2008]
Names
THEMEDA triandra Forssk. [family POACEAE], (1775). Fig. 159.
THEMEDA forskaolii (Retz.) Hack. var. imberbis [family POACEAE], in DC., Monogr. Phan. 6: 661 (1889).
THEMEDA forskaolii (Hochst. ex A. Rich.) Hack. var. punctata [family POACEAE], op. cit.: 662 (1889).
Information
Tufted perennial up to 2 m high (but usually much less), erect, slender. False panicle up to 30 cm long; spatheole 1.5–3.5 cm long, glabrous to tuberculate-hairy. Raceme with 1 fertile spikelet; involucral spikelets narrowly elliptic, 6–14 mm long, glabrous to tuberculate-hairy. Sessile spikelet 6–11 mm long, including the pungent, rufously bearded 2–4 mm long callus; lower glume brown, smooth except for the appressedly pubescent tip; awn 2.5–7 cm long. Pedicelled spikelet 6–14 mm long, glabrous or tuberculate-hairy; callus 2–3 mm long.
Range
N1, 2 tropical and subtropical Old World.
Altitude range
1650–2130 m.
Distribution
SOMALIA Glover & Gilliland 1163; Hansen & Heemstra 6246.
Notes
Daboshobil (Som.).

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