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BROMUNIOLA Stapf & 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
BROMUNIOLA Stapf & Hubbard [family POACEAE], in K.B. 1926: 366 (1926)
Information
Spikelets 4–9-flowered, laterally compressed, disarticulating beneath each floret at maturity; florets glabrous, all hermaphrodite, becoming smaller upwards, or more often with the lowest floret reduced to an empty lemma; lemmas 7-nerved, shortly awned; stamens 3; ovary glabrous.
Range
Species 1; central Africa.
Notes
Bromuniola resembles 22, Bromus, but has a glabrous ovary and cross-veins in the leaf-blades; also 19, Pseudobromus which has fewer (3–5) nerves in the lemma and usually fewer florets in the spikelet. In neither of these genera does the lower part of the palea tend to bulge out from the lemma — a useful distinguishing feature of Bromuniola.
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
BROMUNIOLA Stapf & Hubbard [family POACEAE], in K.B. 1926: 366 (1926)
Information
Spikelets 4–9-flowered, laterally compressed, disarticulating beneath each floret at maturity; florets glabrous, all hermaphrodite, becoming smaller upwards, or more often with the lowest floret reduced to an empty lemma; lemmas 7-nerved, shortly awned; stamens 3; ovary glabrous.
Range
Species 1; central Africa.
Notes
Bromuniola resembles 22, Bromus, but has a glabrous ovary and cross-veins in the leaf-blades; also 19, Pseudobromus which has fewer (3–5) nerves in the lemma and usually fewer florets in the spikelet. In neither of these genera does the lower part of the palea tend to bulge out from the lemma — a useful distinguishing feature of Bromuniola.
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
BROMUNIOLA Stapf & Hubbard [family POACEAE], in K.B. 1926: 366 (1926)
Information
Spikelets 4–9-flowered, laterally compressed, disarticulating beneath each floret at maturity; florets glabrous, all hermaphrodite, becoming smaller upwards, or more often with the lowest floret reduced to an empty lemma; lemmas 7-nerved, shortly awned; stamens 3; ovary glabrous.
Range
Species 1; central Africa.
Notes
Bromuniola resembles 22, Bromus, but has a glabrous ovary and cross-veins in the leaf-blades; also 19, Pseudobromus which has fewer (3–5) nerves in the lemma and usually fewer florets in the spikelet. In neither of these genera does the lower part of the palea tend to bulge out from the lemma — a useful distinguishing feature of Bromuniola.
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