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HABROCHLOA bullockii C. E. Hubbard [family POACEAE]

Date Updated: 19 August 2007

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 1), page 1, (1970) Author: W. D. Clayton
Names
HABROCHLOA bullockii C. E. Hubbard [family POACEAE], in Hook., Ic. Pl. 37, t. 3645 (1967). Type: Zambia, Abercorn District, Kalambo Falls, Bullock 2857 (K, holo.!)
Information
Delicate annual. Culms 10–25 cm. high, very slender, erect or ascending. Leaf-blades 3–7 cm. long and 1–2.5 mm. wide, flat, flaccid, glabrous or with weak scattered hairs. Panicle ovate or oblong, 2–7 cm. long, very loose with capillary branches. Spikelets oblong-cuneate, 2–2.5 mm. long; lower glume 1.5–2 mm. long, the upper as long as the spikelet; lemmas ovate-oblong, 1–1.3 mm. long; awn up to 6 mm. long. Fig. 44, p. 134.
Range
DISTR. T4, 7, 8
Altitude range
up to 1700 m.
Distribution
TANGANYIKA Ufipa District Sumbawanga, between Kasanga and Mbala [Abercorn], 31 Mar. 1959, McCallum Webster T 234!TANGANYIKA Songea District NW. of Ruanda turn-off, Mkuanga Hill, 11 Apr. 1956, Milne-Redhead & Taylor 9608!
Distribution (external)
Zambia Malawi Rhodesia
HABROCHLOA bullockii C. E. Hubbard [family POACEAE]
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