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Urochloa helopus

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Name

Identification
Urochloa helopus (Trin.) Stapf [family POACEAE ] (stored under name); Panicum hirsutum J.König [family POACEAE ]
Related name
  • Urochloa pubescens
  • Panicum geminatum
  • Urochloa panicoides
  • Urochloa rudis
  • Urochloa helopus
  • Panicum hochstetterianum
  • Panicum controversum
  • Panicum hirsutum
  • Urochloa gorinii
  • Panicum holtzii
  • Panicum helopus

Flora

Entry for UROCHLOA panicoides P. Beauv. [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 panicoides P. Beauv. [family POACEAE], (1812).
UROCHLOA helopus (Trin.) Stapf [family POACEAE], (1920).
UROCHLOA helopus (A. Rich.) Chiov. var. hochstetterianum [family POACEAE], Fl. Somala 2: 444 (1932).
Information
Agar fowdo, farsho. Annual up to 100 cm high, often ascending from a prostrate rooting base; leaves linear to narrowly lanceolate, subamplexicaul, coarse, glabrous or pubescent, the margins tuberculate-ciliate at least near the base. Inflorescence of 2–7 racemes on an axis 1–9 cm long; racemes 1–7 cm long, bearing single or paired spikelets on a narrowly winged rhachis. Spikelets elliptic, (2.5–)3.5–4.5(–5.5) mm long, acute; lower glume ovate, 1/4–1/2 the length of the spikelet, 3- to 5-nerved, obtuse to subacute; upper glume smooth; lower lemma smooth, sometimes with a setose fringe; lower palea hyaline throughout; upper lemma rugulose, with a mucro 0.3–1 mm long.
Range
N1; C1, 2; S1–3 East tropical Africa southwards to South Africa and eastwards tointroduced in
Altitude range
50–1500 m.
Distribution
SOMALIA Gillett 3913; Moggi & al. 143; Kuchar 17464; Eagleton 27; Alstrup & Michelsen 61; Kazmi & al. 616.
Distribution (external)
India
Australia

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