MICROCHLOA kunthii Desv. [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
MICROCHLOA kunthii Desv. [family POACEAE], ,Opusc.: 75 (1831); Ann. list grasses Ug.: 28 (1947); F.P.N.A. 3: 148 (1955); R.K.G.: 24 (1958); Ann. list Nyasaland grasses: 49 (1958); I.G.U.: 42 (1960); G.T.: 42 (1965); Clayton in F.W.T.A., ed. 2, 3: 403 (1972). Type: tropical America, Desveaux (P, holo.)
Michrochloa abyssinica A. Rich. [family ], Tent. Fl. Abyss. 2: 404 (1851). Type: Ethiopia, Tigre, Adua, Schimper 321 (K, iso.!)
Michrochloa indica [family ], [sensu Eggeling, Ann. list grasses Ug.: 28 (1947), non (L. f.) P. Beauv.]
Information
Densely caespitose perennial growing in compact mats; culms 10–60 cm. high, 1–4-noded, the leaves mostly crowded at the base. Leaf-blades filiform, 1–8(–13) cm. long, tapering to a fine point; sheaths eventually splitting into a dense tuft of brown fibres. Spikes 2–25 cm. long, the rhachis 0.8–1.2 mm. wide. Spikelets 2.5–4(–4.5) mm. long; anthers 0.5–1.2 mm. long. Caryopsis 1.5 mm. long. Fig. 88/1–10, p. 315.
Range
DISTR. U1–4; K1–7; T1–8 throughout the tropics
Altitude range
600–2700 m.
Distribution
KENYA Northern Frontier Province Dandu, 5 May 1952, Gillett 13056!KENYA Trans-Nzoia District 32 km. S. of Kitale near Nzoia R., 31 Aug. 1952, Bogdan 3545!KENYA Masai District 11 km. from Ol Tukai towards Namanga, 14 Dec. 1959, Verdcourt 2557!TANZANIA Arusha District N. of Ol Doinyo Sambu, 28 Dec. 1961, Greenway 10408 !TANZANIA Ufipa District Nsangu, 13 Mar. 1959, Vesey-FitzGerald 2352!TANZANIA Songea District by R. Lumecha about 21 km. N. of Songea, 3 Jan. 1956, Milne-Redhead & Taylor 8118!UGANDA Karamoja District Kokumongole, 28 May 1939, A. S. Thomas 2838!UGANDA Ankole District Ibanda, 25 Mar. 1929, Snowden 1328!UGANDA Busoga District E. of Nabiwugulu, 28 Apr. 1953, G. H. Wood 982 !
Notes
Specimens with spikelets up to 4.5 mm. long but with short anthers are difficult to place. They seem to have more in common with M. kunthii than with M. caffra and have been included in the former.
MICROCHLOA kunthii Desv. [family POACEAE]
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