Thelepogon elegans Roth ex Roem. & Schult. [family GRAMINEAE]

Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Zambesiaca
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
FZ, Vol 10, Part 4, (2002) Author: T. A. Cope
Names
Thelepogon elegans Roth ex Roem. & Schult. [family GRAMINEAE], Syst. Veg. 2: 788 (1817). —Stapf in Prain, F.T.A. 9: 34 (1917). —Jackson & Wiehe, Annot. Check List Nyasal. Grass.: 62 (1958). —Hood, A Guide to the Grasses of Zambia: 72 (1967). —Simon in Kirkia 8: 19, 52 (1971). —Clayton in F.W.T.A., ed. 2, 3: 473 (1972). —Clayton & Renvoize in F.T.E.A., Gramineae: 744, fig. 174 (1982). —Gibbs Russell et al., Grasses South. Africa [Mem. Bot. Surv. S. Africa No. 58]: 334 (1990). TAB. 20. Type from India.
Information
Coarse annual; culms up to 150 cm high, erect, supported by stilt-roots; leaf laminas 4–20 cm × 5–30 mm, lanceolate, cordate at the base and often amplexicaul, glabrous or hispidulous, the margins finely pectinate-ciliate. Inflorescence composed of 2–17 racemes, the lowermost whorled, the uppermost borne on a short common axis 1–5 cm long; racemes 5–15 cm long, very fragile. Sessile spikelet 5–13 mm long; inferior glume narrowly ovate; superior lemma with an awn 1.5–2.5 cm long. Pedicel a little longer than the sessile spikelet, glabrous.
Habitat
In grassland, on woodland margins and on lake shores in black clay soils
Range
Throughout tropical Africa, extending through India to Indonesia
Altitude range
550–2300 m.
2300
550
Distribution
Zambia C Lusaka Distr., Chikupi Estate, 12.iv.1963, van Rensburg 1896 (K).Zimbabwe N Binga Distr., Lusulu Vet. Ranch, 24.ii.1965, Bingham 1408 (K; SRGH).Malawi N Rumphi Distr., Nyika Plateau, Mwenembwe (Mwanemba), 2290 m, ii–iii.1903, McClounie 18 (K).Mozambique N east coast of Lake Malawi (Lake Nyasa), 22.ix.1900, W.P. Johnson 91 (K).Zambia E Chipata Distr., Luangwa Valley, Chief Nsefu Area, 1.v.1963, Verboom 959 (K).Zambia S Livingstone Distr., Livingstone to Kazungula (Kazangula), km 16, near Kapanda Bridge Camp, 11.iii.1960, White 7729 (K).Zimbabwe W Hwange Distr., Kazuma Range, c. 1000 m, 10.v.1972, Simon 2185 (K; PRE).Malawi S Mulanje Distr., Namphasa Dambo, road from Namasoko Village to Dzanje Road, Mulanje, 9.ii.1980, Patel & Morris 484 (K).
Thelepogon elegans Roth ex Roem. & Schult. [family GRAMINEAE]
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