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Tricholaena grandiflora

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Name

Identification
Tricholaena grandiflora Rendle [family POACEAE ] Melinis repens (Willd.) Zizka [family POACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Zizka,
Related name
  • Rhynchelytrum brevipilum
  • Tricholaena rosea
  • Rhynchelytrum roseum
  • Panicum insigne
  • Melinis repens
  • Rhynchelytrum repens
  • Rhynchelytrum grandiflorum
  • Tricholaena grandiflora

Flora

Entry for RHYNCHELYTRUM grandiflorum Hochst. [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
RHYNCHELYTRUM grandiflorum Hochst. [family POACEAE], in Flora 27: 249 (1844); F.T.A. 9: 874 (1930); F.P.S. 3: 522 (1956). Type: Sudan, Corosco to Berber, Kotschy 370 (K, iso.!)
Tricholaena brevipila Hack. [family POACEAE], in Verhandl. Bot. Ver. Prov. Brandenb. 30: 143 (1888). Type: Namibia, Great Namaqualand, Schinz 631 (K, iso.!)
Tricholaena uniglumis Th. Dur. & Schinz [family POACEAE], Consp. Fl. Afr. 5: 770 (1895). Based on Rhynchelytrum grandiflorum Hochst., non Tricholaena grandiflora A. Rich. (1851)
Tricholaena grandiflora Rendle var. glabrescens [family POACEAE], Cat, Afr. Pl. Welw. 2: 196 (1899). Types: Angola, Quipola, Welwitsch 2610 & Lopollo, Welwitsch 7653 (both K, isosyn.!)
Melinis brevipila (Hack.) Hack. [family POACEAE], in Oest. Bot. Zeitschr. 51: 464 (1901)
Melinis grandiflora (Hochst.) Hack. [family POACEAE], in Oest. Bot. Zeitschr. 51: 464 (1901)
Rhynchelytrum brevipilum (Hack.) Chiov. [family POACEAE], in Ann. Ist. Bot. Roma 8: 310 (1908)
Melinis otaviensis Mez [family POACEAE], in E.J. 57: 195 (1921). Type: Namibia, Otavi, Morgenstern (B, holo.)
Melinis ejubata Mez [family POACEAE], in E.J. 57: 196 (1921). Type: Namibia, Gaub, Dinter 2435 (B, lecto.)
Rhynchelytrum costatum Stapf & Hubbard [family POACEAE], Rhynchelytrum costatum in F.T.A. 9: 874 (1930), nom. superfl. Based on Melinis ejubata Mez
Information
Tufted annual; culms 30–120 cm. high, erect or decumbent. Leaf-blades 5–15 cm. long, 2–5 mm. wide. Panicle narrowly oblong to ovate, 5–15 cm. long; pedicels glabrous. Spikelets oblong, 6–11 mm. long, yellowish brown, glabrous to pubescent; lower glume narrowly oblong, 1–3 mm. long, separated from the upper by an internode 1–2 mm. long; upper glume glabrous on the back, coriaceous with the nerves slightly raised, ± drawn out into a long narrow beak, usually with a tuft of hairs from the middle of the back, ciliate on the margins, with an awn 2–10 mm. long; lower floret ♂ or sterile, its lemma narrower and less gibbous than the upper glume, its palea ciliate on the keels.
Range
DISTR. T2 Ethiopia to Transvaal and Namibia
Altitude range
1500 m.
Distribution
TANZANIA Mbulu District Manda, 10 May 1965, Hukui 59!
Notes
R. microstachyum Balf. f. from Socotra may be a depauperate form of this species.

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