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Trichopteryx homblei De Wild. [family POACEAE ] Verified by Not on sheet, Tristachya superba (De Not.) Schweinf. & Asch. [family POACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on sheet,
Related name
  • Loudetia superba
  • Trichopteryx homblei
  • Tristachya superba
  • Tristachya thollonii

Flora

Entry for LOUDETIA superba De Not. [family ]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of Tropical Africa, Vol 10, page 1, (1937) Author: (By C. E. HUBBARD.)
Names
LOUDETIA superba De Not. [family ], in Ind. Sem. Hort. Genuens. 24 (1852); Ann. Sci. Nat. Sér. 3, xix. 369 (1853).
Tristachya superba Schweinf. & Aschers. [family POACEAE], in Schweinf. Beitr. Fl. Æthiop. 302 (1867).
Trichopteryx gigantea Stapf [family POACEAE], in Kew Bulletin, 1897, 295; Rendle in Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw. ii. 215; Pilger in R.E. Fries, Wiss. Ergebn. Schwed. Rhod.-Kongo-Exped. 1911–12, i. 209; Eyles in Trans. Roy. Soc. S. Afr. v. 305; Massey, Sudan Grasses, 38; Peter in Fedde, Repert. Beih. xl. I. Descr. Pl. Nov. Afr. Or. 94 and Fl. Deutsch-Ostafr. 300, t. 53.
Trichopteryx gigantea Rendle var. gracilis [family POACEAE], Cat. Afr. Pl. Welw. ii. 215 (1899).
Trichopteryx gigantea Pilger var. spiciformis [family POACEAE], in R.E. Fries, Wiss. Ergebn. Schwed. Rhod.-Kongo-Exped. 1911–12, i. 209 (1916).
Trichopteryx gigantea Peter var. phalacrotes [family POACEAE], in Fedde, Repert. Beih. xl. I. Descr. Pl. Nov. Afr. Or. 95 (1930) and Fl. Deutsch-Ostafr. 300.
Trichopteryx superba Baglietto ex Chiov. [family POACEAE], in Nuovo Giorn. Bot. Ital. n.s. xxvi. 79 (1919); Maitland & C. E. Hubbard in Kew Bulletin, 1927, 295, fig.; Stent & Rattray in Proc. Rhod. Sci. Assoc. xxxii. 39.
Trichopteryx Hockii De Wild. [family POACEAE], in Ann. Soc. Sc. Brux. xxxix. Mém. 154: 1920 (Notes Fl. Katanga, v. 32).
Trichopteryx Homblei De Wild. [family POACEAE], l.c. 155 (l.c. 33).
Information
Perennial. Culms erect from a stout creeping rhizome, bulbous and yellowish at the base, clothed there with silky-villous cataphylls, mostly 5–12 ft. high, up to 3 1/2 lin. in diameter, usually stout, terete, simple, 2–3-noded, glabrous or loosely pilose, smooth or asperulous. Leaves mostly basal; sheaths tough, coarsely to finely striate, the lower overlapping, the lowermost tomentose to villous at the base, the remainder glabrous, rarely pubescent to villous, smooth or rarely minutely tuberculate; ligule a densely ciliolate rim; blade linear to linear-lanceolate, finely acuminate, 1/2–2 1/2 ft. long, mostly 4–10 lin. wide, flat, glaucous, usually densely bearded at the back of the ligule, otherwise glabrous or rarely pilose, asperulous above, coarsely scaberulous on the margins. Panicle narrow, erect, usually rather dense and contracted, 1/2–2 ft. long; rhachis glaucous or whitish, villous at the nodes or all over; branches semi-verticillate, erect, scaberulous, glabrous to villous, the lower up to 6 in. long; pedicels scaberulous, 2–8 lin. long, or the terminal up to 13 lin. long. Spikelets narrowly lanceolate, acuminate, mostly 1–1 1/2 in. long, erect, yellowish- to reddish-brown, prominently nerved with yellowish nerves. Glumes coriaceous; lower narrowly ovate-oblong to broadly ovate, acute, 6 1/2–9 lin. long, glabrous, or rarely hairy near the apex, 3–5-nerved; upper linear-lanceolate to lanceolate, acuminate, acute or obtuse at the apex, 1–1 1/2 in. long, 3-nerved, glabrous. Lower floret ♂: valve linear-oblong to lanceolate, acute or minutely 2-lobed, 10–12 lin. long, coriaceous, 5-nerved, with the lateral nerves close together and near the margins; valvule linear, obtuse, 4–8 lin. long, chartaceous, ciliolate on the margins above the middle. Upper floret linear-oblong: callus linear, pungent, 1 3/4–2 1/2 lin. long, densely bearded with silky stramineous or fulvous hairs; valve 6–7 1/2 lin. long, 2-lobed, with the lobes acute and up to 1 3/4 lin. long, finely 5-nerved, coriaceous, pubescent; awn slender to stout; column twisted, up to 3 in. long; bristle becoming falcate, up to 2 in. long; valvule linear, minutely bifid, 6 1/2–7 lin. long. Anthers 3, 3–4 lin. long, brown. Grain linear, 4 1/2 lin. long, terete, sulcate.
Distribution
Angola Lower Guinea Pungo Andongo; between Candumba and Mangue, in wooded thickets, Welwitsch, 2836! near Condo, Calemba, etc., on the banks of the River Cuanza, Welwitsch, 7412! in sandy woods, Welwitsch, 2782! Bié; Burru-Burru, W.N.W. of Bié, 200 ft., Lynes ! between Munongue and Chibamba, in loose sandy meadows, Gossweiler, 2452! Cassuango, Cuiriri, in short shrub-grown pasturage, open thickets and woods, Gossweiler, 2749! 4113! Bunja—Cuito, in short thickets, Gossweiler, 3572! Huilla; wooded rocks by Lake Ivantala, Welwitsch, 7525!Tanganyika Mozamb. Dist. Manyoni District; Kazikazi, in woody savannah, 4200 ft., Burtt, 4606! Manyoni, Burtt, 3676! Iringa Province; Iringa, Emson, 454! Mufindi West, forest glades, 5800–6500 ft., St. Clair-Thompson, 448! Mbosi, Ipata, 4000 ft., Davies, 609!Nyasaland Mozamb. Dist. Fort Hill, 3500–4000 ft., Whyte !Northern Rhodesia Mozamb. Dist. Bangweolo; near Kamindas, Fries, 942! Ndola, Duff, 91/33! Trapnell, 1419! Mufulira, in open forest, Herb. Eyles, 8373! 8395! Broken Hill, Rogers, 7702! Broken Hill Govt. School, 24! between Lusaka and Broken Hill, Pole Evans, 2838 (45)! Mazabuka, Central Research Station, 3800 ft., Trapnell, 858! near Mumbwa, Macaulay !Southern Rhodesia Mozamb. Dist. south-west of Victoria Falls, Baines ! Deykah River, south of Victoria Falls, Holub !Sudan Nile Land Bahr el Ghazal Province; Dukutu, by the Roah River, Schweinfurth, 2260!Uganda Nile Land Mengo; Bugerere, Kennedy, 570! Budama; Busiu, 3700–4000 ft., Maitland, 1204! 1204A! Bugwere; Kidongole, in savannah, 4000 ft., Snowden, 1134! Serere; Serere, Maitland, 1204B! Lango; Amugo, slightly damp slope near river, Johnston, 1034!Congo South Central Katanga; Bukama, Shantz, 565! Kalule Sud, Shantz, 537! Kapiri Valley, Homblé, 1054! Valley of the Petite Luembe, Hock !
Notes
Stent and Rattray (l.c.) and Peter (l.c.) cite other specimens from Southern Rhodesia and Tanganyika Territory respectively.

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