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Urochloa gorinii

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Name

Identification
Urochloa rudis Stapf [family GRAMINEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Data not digitized, Urochloa gorinii Chiov. [family GRAMINEAE ] Verified by Data not digitized,
Related name
  • Urochloa rudis
  • Urochloa helopus
  • Urochloa gorinii
  • Panicum holtzii

Flora

Entry for UROCHLOA rudis Stapf [family POACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Somalia
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Somalia, Vol 4, (1995) Author: by T. A. Cope [updated by M. Thulin 2008]
Names
UROCHLOA rudis Stapf [family POACEAE], (1920);. type: C1, “Obbia”, Drake-Brockman 954 (K holo.).
UROCHLOA gorinii Chiov. [family POACEAE], (1926);. type: S3, Kismayu, Gorini 35 (FT holo.).
Information
Creeping annual, rooting from the lower nodes, up to 100 cm high; leaves broadly linear to narrowly lanceolate, pubescent to velvety-tomentose. Inflorescence of 2–5 racemes on an axis 2–6 cm long; racemes 2–6 cm long, bearing single spikelets on a narrowly winged rhachis. Spikelets broadly elliptic, plumply plano-convex, 3.5–5 mm long, cuspidate; lower glume cuff-like, up to 1/4 the length of the spikelet, truncate; upper glume tuberculate, the tubercles often with spines or bristles; lower lemma tuberculate; lower palea with hyaline centre (middle 1/3–1/2) flanked by wide coriaceous strips along the keels; upper lemma submuricate, with a mucro 0.5 mm long.
Range
C1, 2; S2, 3
Altitude range
0–350 m.
Distribution
SOMALIA Thulin & al. 7299; Kuchar 17562; Thulin & Warfa 7115; Gillett & al. 25318A.
Distribution (external)
Kenya
Tanzania
Zanzibar

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