CYRTOCOCCUM multinode (Lam.) W.D. Clayton [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, page 451, (1982) Author: W. D. CLAYTON and S.A. RENVOIZE
Names
CYRTOCOCCUM multinode (Lam.) W.D. Clayton [family POACEAE], in K.B. 33: 22 (1978). Type: Mauritius, Commerson (P, holo., K, photo.!)
Panicum multinode Lam. [family POACEAE], Encycl. Méth. Bot. 4: 747 (1796)
Panicum cyrtococcoides Napper [family POACEAE], in Kirkia 3: 126 (1963); G.T.: 59 (1965). Type: Uganda, Lubanyi Hill, G.H.S. Wood 65 (EA, holo., K, iso.!)
Information
Trailing perennial, rooting at the lower nodes and forming a mat; culms 30–100 cm. high. Leaf-blades lanceolate, 5–20 cm. long, 8–25 mm. wide. Panicle diffuse, 8–22 cm. long, the branches glabrous or sparsely hirsute; terminal pedicels much longer than the spikelets, subangular, obscurely scaberulous. Spikelets 1.2–1.5 mm. long, not strongly gibbous, glabrous or puberulous at the tip; lower glume subacute to obtuse; upper lemma with a short obscure crest.
Range
DISTR. U2–4; T2, 3
Altitude range
900–1300 m.
Distribution
TANZANIA Moshi District Rau forest, 16 July 1968, A.J. Sharp in C.A. W.M. 3220TANZANIA Lushoto District Amani, Eichinger 5898! & 30 Sept. 1908, Mucke 88!UGANDA Busoga District Lubanyi [Lubani] Hill, 7 Nov. 1950, G.H.S. Wood 65!UGANDA Mengo District Kajansi Forest, July 1935, Chandler 1268! & Mabira Forest near Namanyama, 19 Apr. 1950, Dawkins 571!
Distribution (external)
Madagascar
Mauritius
other Mascarene Is
Notes
This species has been placed in Panicum, but resembles Cyrtococcum in its glumes and upper lemma (though the crest is small and difficult to see). In some respects it is intermediate between the two genera.
CYRTOCOCCUM multinode (Lam.) W.D. Clayton [family POACEAE]
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