ANTHEPHORA pubescens Nees [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
ANTHEPHORA pubescens Nees [family POACEAE], Fl. Afr. Austr.: 74 (1841). Type: South Africa, Gariep to Lauwwaterskloof, Lichtenstein 569 (B, holo.†)
ANTHEPHORA hochstetteri Hochst. [family POACEAE], in Flora 27: 249 (1844); F.T.A. 9: 944 (1930); Ann. list grasses Ug.: 3 (1947); F.P.S. 3: 392 (1956); R.K.G. 54 (1958); I.G.U.: 16 (1960); Clayton in F.W.T.A., ed. 2, 3: 457 (1972). Type: Ethiopia, Mt. Scholoda, Schimper 71 (K, iso.!)
ANTHEPHORA kotschyi Hochst. [family POACEAE], in Flora 27: 250 (1844). Type: Sudan, Corosco to Berber, Kotschy 367 (K, iso.!)
ANTHEPHORA abyssinica A. Rich. [family POACEAE], Tent. Fl. Abyss. 2: 389 (1851). Types: Ethiopia, Memshah, Quartin Dillon & Shire [Chiré], Quartin Dillon (both P, syn.!)
ANTHEPHORA cenchroides K. Schum. [family POACEAE], in P.O.A. C: 99 (1895), nom. superfl. Based on A. hochstetteri Hochst.
Information
Tufted perennial; culms 30–100 cm. high. Leaf-blades 3–40 cm. long, 2–6 mm. wide; ligule 2–8 mm. long, with or without auricles. Panicle 5–25 cm. long, the clusters with bearded peduncles. Spikelets lanceolate to narrowly ovate, broadest below the middle, 6–11 mm. long; lower glume sparsely pilose to densely villous, 3–7-nerved, acute to setaceously acuminate; lower lemma densely ciliate, the hairs 1 mm. long and projecting from the spikelet.
Range
DISTR. U1; K2
Altitude range
700–1800 m.
Distribution
KENYA Turkana District Songot, May 1933, Champion 174! & Kaya Ejon, 29 Jan. 1965, Newbould 6839 !KENYA W. Suk District Chessera, 3 Dec. 1959, Bogdan 4955!UGANDA Karamoja District Kaabong, 13 Nov. 1939, A.S. Thomas 3345! & Koputh, 10 June 1940, A.S. Thomas 3733! & Rupa, 9 Nov. 1955, Harker 462!
Distribution (external)
Sudan
Ethiopia
Somalia
Mozambique
Zimbabwe
Angola
South Africa
Mali
Iran
Notes
Tends to intergrade with A. nigritana. The Ugandan specimens are intermediate, having the glume shape of A. nigritana, but the hairiness of A. pubescens.
ANTHEPHORA pubescens Nees [family POACEAE]
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