TRICHOPTERYX elegantula (Hook. f.) Stapf [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
TRICHOPTERYX elegantula (Hook. f.) Stapf [family POACEAE], in Hook., Ic. Pl. 24, t. 2394 (1895); Hubbard in F.T.A. 10: 11 (1937); Clayton in F.W.T.A., ed. 2, 3: 420 (1972). Type: Cameroun, Cameroon Mt., Mann 2092 (K, holo.!)
Arundinella elegantula Hook. f. [family POACEAE], in J.L.S. 7: 233 (1864)
Trichopteryx elegantula Peter [family POACEAE], F.D.O.-A. 1, Anh.: 93, fig. 52/2 (1930), non Stapf. Type: Tanzania, Buha District, Mkigo to Mkalinzi [Lussimbi], Peter 38805 (B, holo. †)
Trichopteryx glanvillei C. E. Hubbard [family POACEAE], in K.B. 1934: 426 (1934) & in F.T.A. 10: 11 (1937). Type: Sierra Leone, Bintumane, Glanville 335 (K, holo. !)
Trichopteryx elegantula Chippindall var. katangensis [family POACEAE], in Blumea, Suppl. 3: 29, fig. 3 (1946). Type: Zaire, Katanga, Lubumbashi [Elisabethville], Quarré 1097 (PRE, holo. !)
Trichopteryx delicatissima Phipps [family POACEAE], in Kirkia 4: 119 (1964). Type: Zambia, Kalambo Falls, Exell, Mendonça & Wild 1284 (SRGH, holo., BM, iso !)
Information
Annual; culms 4–25 cm. high, erect or ascending. Leaf-blades lanceolate to ovate, 0.5–2.5 cm. long, 1–6 mm. wide. Panicle obovate, 0.5–7 cm. long, loose to moderately dense. Spikelets 2.5–3.5 mm. long, glabrous or setose with tubercle-based hairs; upper lemma 1.5–2 mm. long, pubescent with short lateral tufts; central awn 8–15 mm. long, the laterals 3–4 mm. long; callus rounded.
Range
DISTR. U2; T4, 8
Altitude range
850–1200 m.
Distribution
TANZANIA Buha District Mkenke stream, 12 Mar. 1964, Pirozynski 558a !TANZANIA Songea District Matogoro Hills S. of Songea, May 1956, Milne-Redhead & Taylor 9969 !UGANDA Kigezi District Kirwa, Mar. 1942, Eggeling 4768 ! & Bukimbiri, May 1950, Purseglove 3378!
Distribution (external)
Sierra Leone
Cameroun
Zaire
Zambia
Malawi
Notes
The Ugandan specimens are intermediate between this species and T. stolziana, having the open panicle of the former, but the truncate callus of the latter.
TRICHOPTERYX elegantula (Hook. f.) Stapf [family POACEAE]
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