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HARPACHNE schimperi Hochst. ex A. Rich. [family POACEAE]
Date Updated: 19 August 2007
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Somalia
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Somalia, Vol 4, (1995) Author: by T. A. Cope [updated by M. Thulin 2008]
Names
HARPACHNE schimperi Hochst. ex A. Rich. [family POACEAE], (1850). Fig. 97.
Information
Densely tufted, up to 40 cm high. Panicle oblong, 4–7.5 cm long, the spikelets densely crowded; pedicels 2–6.5 mm long, villous. Spikelets 6- to 13-flowered, 11–14 mm long, wedge-shaped; glumes unequal, oblong-linear, the lower 1.6–2.1 mm long, the upper 3.3–4.5 mm long; lowest lemma lanceolate, 3.8–4.9 mm long, acute, the upper lemmas progressively narrower, becoming setaceously acuminate and up to 6.8 mm long.
Range
N1 Ethiopia and Sudan southwards to Zambia
Distribution
SOMALIA Drake-Brockman 181.
Distribution (external)
Arabia (Asir region)
Date Updated: 19 August 2007
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Somalia
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Somalia, Vol 4, (1995) Author: by T. A. Cope [updated by M. Thulin 2008]
Names
HARPACHNE schimperi Hochst. ex A. Rich. [family POACEAE], (1850). Fig. 97.
Information
Densely tufted, up to 40 cm high. Panicle oblong, 4–7.5 cm long, the spikelets densely crowded; pedicels 2–6.5 mm long, villous. Spikelets 6- to 13-flowered, 11–14 mm long, wedge-shaped; glumes unequal, oblong-linear, the lower 1.6–2.1 mm long, the upper 3.3–4.5 mm long; lowest lemma lanceolate, 3.8–4.9 mm long, acute, the upper lemmas progressively narrower, becoming setaceously acuminate and up to 6.8 mm long.
Range
N1 Ethiopia and Sudan southwards to Zambia
Distribution
SOMALIA Drake-Brockman 181.
Distribution (external)
Arabia (Asir region)
Date Updated: 19 August 2007
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Somalia
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Somalia, Vol 4, (1995) Author: by T. A. Cope [updated by M. Thulin 2008]
Names
HARPACHNE schimperi Hochst. ex A. Rich. [family POACEAE], (1850). Fig. 97.
Information
Densely tufted, up to 40 cm high. Panicle oblong, 4–7.5 cm long, the spikelets densely crowded; pedicels 2–6.5 mm long, villous. Spikelets 6- to 13-flowered, 11–14 mm long, wedge-shaped; glumes unequal, oblong-linear, the lower 1.6–2.1 mm long, the upper 3.3–4.5 mm long; lowest lemma lanceolate, 3.8–4.9 mm long, acute, the upper lemmas progressively narrower, becoming setaceously acuminate and up to 6.8 mm long.
Range
N1 Ethiopia and Sudan southwards to Zambia
Distribution
SOMALIA Drake-Brockman 181.
Distribution (external)
Arabia (Asir region)
![HARPACHNE schimperi Hochst. ex A. Rich. [family POACEAE]](/fsi/img/misc/plants/static_thumbs/flora_somalia_icon96.jpg)
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