SCHMIDTIA bulbosa Stapf [family ]

Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Capensis
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Capensis, Vol 7, page 310, (1900) Author: (By O. STAPF.)
Names
SCHMIDTIA bulbosa Stapf [family ]
SCHMIDTIA quinqueseta Ficalho and Hiern [family ], in Trans. Linn. Soc. ser. 2, Bot. ii. 31 (partly); Durand & Schinz, Consp. Fl. Afr. v. 871 (partly).
Information
perennial, with numerous villous conical innovation-buds at the base, (base hence more or less bulbous); culms simple or scantily branched, erect or shortly ascending, up to 2 ft. long, 5–8-noded, villous or pubescent below the nodes, internodes mostly enclosed or subexserted; leaves villous or pubescent or glabrescent; sheaths striate, the upper tight; blades linear, long and finely attenuated, 2 1/2–4 in. by 2–3 lin., usually convolute at least above the middle, firm, rather rigid; panicle linear to oblong, 2–4 in. by 6–12 lin., somewhat loosely contracted; branches up to 1 in. long, 3–7-spiculate; spikelets 4–5 lin. long; glumes pubescent, nerves prominent, the lower 3–4 lin. long, ovate, the upper 4–5 lin., oblong; body of valves 1 1/2–2 lin. long, linear-lanceolate, lobes about 1 1/2 lin. long; awns 3–4 lin. long; flaps of pales long silky; anthers 1–1 1/2 lin. long; grain 7/8 lin. long. null
Distribution
KALAHARI REGION Griqualand West; Hünernest Kloof, Rehmann, 3401! St. Clair, Douglas, Orpen, 196! Orange Free State, Buchanan, 52! Bechuana-land; Chooi Desert, near “Giraffe Station,” Burchell, 2361! Transvaal; on the plains, McLea, 136! Bosch Veld, at Klippan, Rehmann, 5365! near Lydenburg, Atherstone!
Notes
S. quinqueseta, Benth., (according to Ficalho and Hiern, as “illustrated by specimens which have been distributed from the Polytechnic School of Lisbon as part of the herbarium of D. A. R. Fereira,”) is a grass, much branched above the base, the branches being intravaginal and erect, the culms very slender and glabrous, the blades rather short (1 1/2–2 in.), stiff, and like the sheaths clothed with spreading gland-tipped hairs. Hackel (Bull. Herb. Boiss. iv. App. iii. 22) indicates S. pappophoroides, Steud., and S. quinqueseta, Benth., from various places in Great Namaqualand; but, in the absence of the specimens, to which he refers, I must leave open the question how far they belong to S. bulbosa or to one of the other 2 species, if the specific distinction of these can be maintained at all.
SCHMIDTIA bulbosa Stapf [family ]
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