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Tristachya mukuluensis

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Name

Identification
Tristachya mukuluensis De Wild. [family POACEAE ] Verified by Not on sheet, Tristachya leucothrix Nees [family POACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on sheet,
Related name
  • Tristachya leucothrix
  • Tristachya hispida
  • Tristachya mukuluensis

Flora

Entry for TRISTACHYA leucothrix Nees [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 2), page 177, (1974) Author: W. D. CLAYTON, S. M. PHILLIPS AND S. A. RENVOIZE
Names
TRISTACHYA leucothrix Nees [family POACEAE], ,Agrost. Bras.: 460 (1829). Type: South Africa, Zeyher (K, iso.!)
Avena hispida L. f. [family ], Suppl. Pl.: 111 (1781), nom. superfl. Based on Avena capensis Burm. (1768), a species whose identity is uncertain
Avena hispida Thunb. [family ], Prodr. Pl. Cap.: 22 (1794), nom. illegit. Type: South Africa, Cape of Good Hope, Thunberg (UPS, holo., K, microfiche !)
Anthistiria hispida (L.f.) Thunb. [family POACEAE], Fl. Cap. 1: 403 (1818)
Danthonia hispida (L. f.) Spreng. [family POACEAE], Syst. Veg. 1: 331 (1825)
Anthistiria ciliata (L. f.) Nees var. hispida [family POACEAE], Fl. Afr. Austr.: 121 (1841)
Tristachya monocephala Hochst. [family POACEAE], in Flora 29: 120 (1846). Type: South Africa, Natal, Pietermaritzburg [Pieter Mauritzberg], Krauss (K, iso.!)
Tristachya hispida (L. f.) K. Schum. [family POACEAE], in P.O.A. C: 109 (1895); Hubbard in F.T.A. 10: 63 (1937); Ann. list Nyasaland grasses: 64 (1958); G.T.: 53 (1965)
Tristachya leucothrix De Wild. var. sapinii [family POACEAE], in B. J.B.B. 3: 278 (1911). Type: Zaire, Kasai, Bienge, Sapin (BR, holo. !)
Tristachya granulosa Chiov. [family POACEAE], in Ann. Bot. Roma 13: 52 (1914). Type: Zaire, Katanga, Biano Plateau, Bovone 99 (TO, holo. !)
Tristachya leucothrix De Wild. var. bolusii [family POACEAE], in B.J.B.B. 6: 51 (1919). Type: South Africa, Natal, Belfort, Bolus 12446 (BR, holo. !)
Tristachya leucothrix De Wild. var. longiaristata [family POACEAE], in B.J.B.B. 6: 52 (1919). Type: Zaire, Lubumbashi [Elisabethville], Bequaert 309 (BR, holo.!)
Tristachya mukuluensis Vanderyst [family POACEAE], in Bull. Agric. Congo Belge 11: 113 (1920), nom. prov. Type: Zaire, Mukulu, Vanderyst 3183 (K, iso. !)
Apochaete hispida (Thunb.) Phipps [family POACEAE], in Kirkia 4: 105 (1964)
Information
Compactly tufted perennial; culms 30–120 cm. high; basal leaf-sheaths ± silky pubescent to fulvously tomentose. Leaf-blades flat, 5–40 cm. long, 2–9 mm. wide, usually stiffly pubescent. Panicle nodding, 7–20 mm. long, comprising 1–7 triads, each borne at the end of a slender flexuous branch; pedicels connate. Spikelets narrowly lanceolate, 24–45 mm. long, pale yellow or yellowish brown, villous from rows of black tubercles; lower glume narrowly lanceolate, 3/4 as long as the spikelet; upper glume very narrowly lanceolate, almost as long as the spikelet, the lower lemma a little longer; upper lemma 9–14 mm. long, glabrous, acutely bilobed; awn 6–10 cm. long; callus 3 mm. long, pubescent. Caryopsis hairy on top.
Range
DISTR. T4, 7, 8 Zaire to South Africa
Altitude range
1200–2100 m.
Distribution
TANZANIA Tabora District near Tura Nullah, Grant !TANZANIA Iringa District Sao Hill, Nov. 1962, Procter 2156 !TANZANIA Songea District N. of Songea, Lumecha Bridge, 23 Jan. 1956, Milne-Redhead & Taylor 8404 !
Notes
In the older literature names based on Avena hispida are often cited as synonyms of Themeda triandra Forsk., a completely different plant.

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