Entry for Kampochloa brachyphylla Clayton [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
Kampochloa brachyphyllaClayton [family GRAMINEAE], in Kew Bull. 21: 103 (1967). —Simon in Kirkia 8: 59 (1971). TAB. 67. Type from Angola.
Information
Densely caespitose perennial up to 30 cm tall; leaf laminas 3–7 cm × 2–3 mm, sometimes flat but more usually involute.Raceme 1–2.5 cm long.Spikelets c. 3.5 mm long; inferior glume c. 2.4 mm long, narrowly lanceolate, with an awnlet c. 1 mm long; superior glume c. 2.7 mm long, lanceolate, with an awn c. 2.7 mm long; fertile lemma c. 3 mm long, ovate; 2nd lemma c. 2.9 mm long, narrowly oblong-elliptic, with an awn c. 3 mm long; distal florets reduced to a scale up to 1 mm long and 4 awns c. 3.5 mm long.
Habitat
In sandy soil in laterite pans
Altitude range
c. 1130 m.
1130
1130
Distribution
Zambia W Mwinilunga Distr., 5.6 km north of Salujinga turnoff (5.6 km north of Zambezi R.), c. 1130 m, 24.xii.1969, Simon & Williamson 1993 (BM; K).
