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Triraphis schinzii

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Identification
Triraphis schinzii Hack. [family POACEAE ]
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Entry for TRIRAPHIS schinzii Hack. [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, Part (Part 1), page 1, (1970) Author: W. D. Clayton
Names
TRIRAPHIS schinzii Hack. [family POACEAE], in Verh. Bot. Ver. Brand. 30: 147 (1888). Type: South West Africa, Amboland, Omatope, Schinz 627 (B, holo.)
TRIRAPHIS schlechteri Stent [family POACEAE], in Bothalia 1: 294 (1921); G.T.: 25 (1965). Type: Mozambique, Lourengo Marques, Schlechter 11664 (K, holo.!)
TRIRAPHIS weberae Peter [family POACEAE], F.D.O.-A. 1, Anh.: 80 (1930). Type: Tanganyika, Uzaramo District, Soga to Baha, Peter 14940 (B, holo. †, K, klasto.!)
Information
Caespitose perennial. Culms ± 1 m. high, erect, tough. Leaf-blades up to 50 cm. long and 5 mm. wide, usually flat, setaceously acuminate. Panicle narrowly oblong, 15–45 cm. long, loose; branches slender, flexuous, densely spiculate towards the tips. Spikelets 4–6(–7)-flowered, narrowly oblong, 6–11 mm. long; glumes 4.5–6.5 mm. long; lemmas narrowly elliptic, 5 mm. long, pilose with hairs ± 2 mm. long on the lateral nerves; awns 5–7 mm. long. Fig. 41.
Range
DISTR. T6 southwards to South and South West Africa
Altitude range
100 m.
Distribution
TANGANYIKA Uzaramo District Vikindu Forest Reserve, Aug. 1953, Semsei 1325!

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