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Triraphis andropogonoides

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Name

Identification
Triraphis andropogonoides (Steud.) E.Phillips [family POACEAE ]
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Flora

Entry for Triraphis andropogonoides Steud. E. Phillips [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
Diplachne andropogonoides Steud. Nees [family GRAMINEAE], Fl. Afr. Austral. Ill.: 258 (1841).
Triraphis rehmannii Hack. [family GRAMINEAE], in Bull. Herb. Boissier 3: 388 (1895). Type from South Africa (Free State).
Triraphis andropogonoides Steud. E. Phillips [family GRAMINEAE], Intr. S. Afr. Grass.: 219 (1931). —Chippindall in Meredith, Grasses & Pastures of South Africa: 125, fig. 98 (1955). —Gibbs Russell et al., Grasses Southern Africa [Mem. Bot. Surv. S. Africa No. 58]: 346 (1990). Type from South Africa (Cape Province).
Avena andropogonoides Steud. [family GRAMINEAE], in Flora 12: 486 (1829).
Information
Caespitose perennial with well developed creeping rhizomes; culms up to 120 cm tall, erect, leafy throughout; leaf lamina 20–40 cm × 2–6 mm, flat or involute, setaceously acuminate.Panicle 12–30 cm long, oblong or elliptic, dense, the branches straight or flexuous, spiculate ± throughout.Spikelets 5–10 mm long excluding the awns, 5–7(15)-flowered, narrowly oblong; glumes somewhat unequal in length, the inferior 2.3–4.3 mm long, the superior 3.7–4.5 mm long; lemmas narrowly lanceolate, the body 3–5 mm long; awns 2–2.5 mm long; anthers 1.2–2.3 mm long.
Distribution (external)
Lesotho
South Africa (Cape Province, KwaZulu-Natal, Free State, Transvaal)
Notes
The species is included on the basis of a statement mentioning its occurrence in Botswana by Chippindall and a dot in the distribution map for the species in Gibbs Russell et al.There is no reason to doubt the accuracy of these records, but thus far no material for confirmation has been seen.

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