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Ridley TRIBE CENTOTHECEAE [family ]
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
Ridley TRIBE CENTOTHECEAE [family ], Mat. Fl. Malay. Pen. 3: 122 (1907)
Information
Annual or perennial herbs. Leaf-blades broad, flat, with cross-veins, sometimes with a false petiole; ligule obscure, membranous. Inflorescence an open or contracted panicle. Spikelets all alike, hermaphrodite, 1-many-flowered, in the former the fertile floret succeeded by 1 or more empty or ♂ florets, falling entire or the rhachilla disarticulating below each floret; glumes herbaceous, shorter than the lemmas, 3–7-nerved; lemmas similar to the glumes in texture, 3–9-nerved, usually glabrous, awnless or shortly awned from the tip; palea hyaline; lodicules 2, cuneate; stamens 2–3; stigmas 2. Grain with small embryo and oval hilum; starch grains mixed.Leaf anatomy: chlorenchyma diffuse; bundle-sheaths double; silica-bodies cross- or dumb-bell-shaped; 2-celled hairs balanoform; stomatal subsidiary cells triangular. Embryo centothecoïd. Chromosomes small, basic number 12.Genera ± 6; throughout the tropics, in forest shade.
Notes
Anatomical evidence suggests that the tribe is in many ways intermediate between I, Bambuseae and XXII, Eragrostideae.
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
Ridley TRIBE CENTOTHECEAE [family ], Mat. Fl. Malay. Pen. 3: 122 (1907)
Information
Annual or perennial herbs. Leaf-blades broad, flat, with cross-veins, sometimes with a false petiole; ligule obscure, membranous. Inflorescence an open or contracted panicle. Spikelets all alike, hermaphrodite, 1-many-flowered, in the former the fertile floret succeeded by 1 or more empty or ♂ florets, falling entire or the rhachilla disarticulating below each floret; glumes herbaceous, shorter than the lemmas, 3–7-nerved; lemmas similar to the glumes in texture, 3–9-nerved, usually glabrous, awnless or shortly awned from the tip; palea hyaline; lodicules 2, cuneate; stamens 2–3; stigmas 2. Grain with small embryo and oval hilum; starch grains mixed.Leaf anatomy: chlorenchyma diffuse; bundle-sheaths double; silica-bodies cross- or dumb-bell-shaped; 2-celled hairs balanoform; stomatal subsidiary cells triangular. Embryo centothecoïd. Chromosomes small, basic number 12.Genera ± 6; throughout the tropics, in forest shade.
Notes
Anatomical evidence suggests that the tribe is in many ways intermediate between I, Bambuseae and XXII, Eragrostideae.
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
Ridley TRIBE CENTOTHECEAE [family ], Mat. Fl. Malay. Pen. 3: 122 (1907)
Information
Annual or perennial herbs. Leaf-blades broad, flat, with cross-veins, sometimes with a false petiole; ligule obscure, membranous. Inflorescence an open or contracted panicle. Spikelets all alike, hermaphrodite, 1-many-flowered, in the former the fertile floret succeeded by 1 or more empty or ♂ florets, falling entire or the rhachilla disarticulating below each floret; glumes herbaceous, shorter than the lemmas, 3–7-nerved; lemmas similar to the glumes in texture, 3–9-nerved, usually glabrous, awnless or shortly awned from the tip; palea hyaline; lodicules 2, cuneate; stamens 2–3; stigmas 2. Grain with small embryo and oval hilum; starch grains mixed.Leaf anatomy: chlorenchyma diffuse; bundle-sheaths double; silica-bodies cross- or dumb-bell-shaped; 2-celled hairs balanoform; stomatal subsidiary cells triangular. Embryo centothecoïd. Chromosomes small, basic number 12.Genera ± 6; throughout the tropics, in forest shade.
Notes
Anatomical evidence suggests that the tribe is in many ways intermediate between I, Bambuseae and XXII, Eragrostideae.
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