Entry From
Flora of Tropical East Africa, Part (Part 1), page 1, (1970) Author: W. D. Clayton
Names
STIPAGROSTIS hirtigluma (Trin. & Rupr.) de Winter [family POACEAE], in Kirkia 3: 136 (1963) & in Bothalia 8: 361 (1965). Type: Arabia, Schimper 165 (K, iso.!)
Aristida hirtigluma Trin. & Rupr. [family POACEAE], Sp. Gram. Stip.: 171 (1842); F.P.S. 3: 398 (1956); R.K.G.: 33 (1958); Ann, list Nyasaland grasses: 29 (1958); I.G.U.: 16 (1960); G.T.: 23 (1965)
Aristida hirtigluma Hack. var. patula [family POACEAE], in Denkschr. Kais. Akad. Naturw. 78: 401 (1906). Type: Mozambique, Menyhart 601 (Z, iso.)
Aristida gracilior Pilg. [family POACEAE], in E.J. 40: 80 (1907). Type: South West Africa, Fritzsche 16 (B, holo.!)
Aristida gracilior Henr. var. pearsonii [family POACEAE], in Med. Rijks Herb. Leiden 54B: 695 (1928). Type: Angola, Mossamedes-R. Coroca, Pearson 2249 (K, holo.!)
Stipagrostis hirtigluma (Henr.) de Winter var. pearsonii [family POACEAE], in Kirkia 3: 134 (1963)
Stipagrostis hirtigluma (Hack.) de Winter var. patula [family POACEAE], in Kirkia 3: 134 (1963)
Range
DISTR. K1, 2, 4, 6; T2, 3 Mali to Somali Republic, thence to Arabia and India,
Distribution
KENYA Turkana District 8 km. W. of Lokichar, 4 July 1954, Hemming 293!KENYA Masai District 16 km. on Narok-Nairobi road, Langena Camp, 15 July 1962, Glover & Samwell [ Paulo ] 3173! & Magadi, 8 Oct. 1955, Greenway 8842!TANGANYIKA Masai District 10 km. Engaruka-Mto wa Mbu, 25 Feb. 1966, Leippert 6365!TANGANYIKA Lushoto District S. Pare Mts., Buiko, 10 July 1942, Greenway 6588!
Notes
De Winter, in Bothalia 8: 363 (1965), recognizes three varieties—var. hirtigluma, annual with a narrow panicle, var. pearsonii, annual with a lax and spreading panicle, and var. patula, perennial with an effuse panicle. All three varieties occur in East Africa, but they are very indistinctly separated and have not been formally adopted here.