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SCHMIDTIA pappophoroïdes J. A. Schmidt [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
SCHMIDTIA pappophoroïdes J. A. Schmidt [family ], Beitr. Fl. Cap. Verd. Ins.: 145 (1852); F.P.S. 3: 529 (1956); R.K.G.: 16 (1958); Launert in Bol. Soc. Brot., sér. 2, 39: 308 (1965). Type: Cape Verde Is., Boa Vista, J. A. Schmidt (P, iso.)
SCHMIDTIA bulbosa Stapf [family ], in Dyer, Fl. Cap. 7: 658 (1900); Ann. list Nyasaland Grasses: 58 (1958); I.G.U.: 52 (1960); G.T.: 21 (1965). Types: South Africa, N. Cape Province, Burchell 2361 & Griqualand West, Rehmann 3401 & Orpen 196 & Orange Free State, Buchanan 52 & Transvaal, McLea 136, Rehmann 5365 & Atherstone (all K, syn.!)
Antoschmidtia bulbosa (Stapf) Peter [family POACEAE], F.D.O.-A. 1: 307 (1931)
Information
Perennial from a short creeping rhizome, often with long surface stolons. Culms mostly 30–90 cm. high, erect or geniculately ascending, somewhat swollen at the base, often almost suffrutescent with tufts of innovation shoots arising at intervals on the tough wiry culms. Leaf-blades 5–16 cm. long and 2–7 mm. wide, involute or flat, glaucous, pubescent above and beneath. Panicle oblong, 6–12 cm. long and 2–4.5 cm. wide, loose or slightly contracted. Spikelets obovate in side view, up to 15 mm. long, the florets silky villous; glumes grey-green, glabrous or finely pubescent, acute to subobtuse, the lower 4.6–7.5 mm. long, the upper 6–9 mm. long; lowest lemma 8.5–14 mm. long, lobed for one-third of its length, the lobes often mucronate or shortly aristulate; awns 4.5–8 mm. long, straight, scaberulous; palea 4.3–5.8 mm. long, villous. Fig. 54, p. 166.
Range
DISTR. U1; K1, 2, 4, 7; T1–3, 5, 7 Ethiopia to South Africa
Altitude range
200–1800 m.
Distribution
KENYA Northern Frontier Province Wajir, 27 May 1952, Gillett 13369!KENYA W. Suk District 65 km. N. of Kapenguria, Marich [Marech] Pass, 13 Nov. 1953, Bogdan 3845!KENYA Machakos District 240 km. on Mombasa-Nairobi road, 15 Apr. 1960, Verdcourt & Polhill 2701!TANGANYIKA Musoma District 90 km. from Seronera to Klein’s Camp, 17 May 1961, Greenway 10301!TANGANYIKA Lushoto District Buiko, 10 July 1942, Greenway 6585!TANGANYIKA Iringa District Ruaha National Park, Feb. 1963, Procter 2385!UGANDA Karamoja District Arnudat, May 1948, Eggeling 5819!
Distribution (external)
Senegal
Mauritania
Cape Verde Is
Notes
S. pappophoroïdes has been associated with considerable taxonomic confusion, for the plants vary from densely caespitose to suffrutescent with arching runners. Launert (l.c.) has shown that these forms are intergrading and are uncorrelated with the manifest variation in spikelet dimensions. He concludes that only one species should be recognized.
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
SCHMIDTIA pappophoroïdes J. A. Schmidt [family ], Beitr. Fl. Cap. Verd. Ins.: 145 (1852); F.P.S. 3: 529 (1956); R.K.G.: 16 (1958); Launert in Bol. Soc. Brot., sér. 2, 39: 308 (1965). Type: Cape Verde Is., Boa Vista, J. A. Schmidt (P, iso.)
SCHMIDTIA bulbosa Stapf [family ], in Dyer, Fl. Cap. 7: 658 (1900); Ann. list Nyasaland Grasses: 58 (1958); I.G.U.: 52 (1960); G.T.: 21 (1965). Types: South Africa, N. Cape Province, Burchell 2361 & Griqualand West, Rehmann 3401 & Orpen 196 & Orange Free State, Buchanan 52 & Transvaal, McLea 136, Rehmann 5365 & Atherstone (all K, syn.!)
Antoschmidtia bulbosa (Stapf) Peter [family POACEAE], F.D.O.-A. 1: 307 (1931)
Information
Perennial from a short creeping rhizome, often with long surface stolons. Culms mostly 30–90 cm. high, erect or geniculately ascending, somewhat swollen at the base, often almost suffrutescent with tufts of innovation shoots arising at intervals on the tough wiry culms. Leaf-blades 5–16 cm. long and 2–7 mm. wide, involute or flat, glaucous, pubescent above and beneath. Panicle oblong, 6–12 cm. long and 2–4.5 cm. wide, loose or slightly contracted. Spikelets obovate in side view, up to 15 mm. long, the florets silky villous; glumes grey-green, glabrous or finely pubescent, acute to subobtuse, the lower 4.6–7.5 mm. long, the upper 6–9 mm. long; lowest lemma 8.5–14 mm. long, lobed for one-third of its length, the lobes often mucronate or shortly aristulate; awns 4.5–8 mm. long, straight, scaberulous; palea 4.3–5.8 mm. long, villous. Fig. 54, p. 166.
Range
DISTR. U1; K1, 2, 4, 7; T1–3, 5, 7 Ethiopia to South Africa
Altitude range
200–1800 m.
Distribution
KENYA Northern Frontier Province Wajir, 27 May 1952, Gillett 13369!KENYA W. Suk District 65 km. N. of Kapenguria, Marich [Marech] Pass, 13 Nov. 1953, Bogdan 3845!KENYA Machakos District 240 km. on Mombasa-Nairobi road, 15 Apr. 1960, Verdcourt & Polhill 2701!TANGANYIKA Musoma District 90 km. from Seronera to Klein’s Camp, 17 May 1961, Greenway 10301!TANGANYIKA Lushoto District Buiko, 10 July 1942, Greenway 6585!TANGANYIKA Iringa District Ruaha National Park, Feb. 1963, Procter 2385!UGANDA Karamoja District Arnudat, May 1948, Eggeling 5819!
Distribution (external)
Senegal
Mauritania
Cape Verde Is
Notes
S. pappophoroïdes has been associated with considerable taxonomic confusion, for the plants vary from densely caespitose to suffrutescent with arching runners. Launert (l.c.) has shown that these forms are intergrading and are uncorrelated with the manifest variation in spikelet dimensions. He concludes that only one species should be recognized.
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
SCHMIDTIA pappophoroïdes J. A. Schmidt [family ], Beitr. Fl. Cap. Verd. Ins.: 145 (1852); F.P.S. 3: 529 (1956); R.K.G.: 16 (1958); Launert in Bol. Soc. Brot., sér. 2, 39: 308 (1965). Type: Cape Verde Is., Boa Vista, J. A. Schmidt (P, iso.)
SCHMIDTIA bulbosa Stapf [family ], in Dyer, Fl. Cap. 7: 658 (1900); Ann. list Nyasaland Grasses: 58 (1958); I.G.U.: 52 (1960); G.T.: 21 (1965). Types: South Africa, N. Cape Province, Burchell 2361 & Griqualand West, Rehmann 3401 & Orpen 196 & Orange Free State, Buchanan 52 & Transvaal, McLea 136, Rehmann 5365 & Atherstone (all K, syn.!)
Antoschmidtia bulbosa (Stapf) Peter [family POACEAE], F.D.O.-A. 1: 307 (1931)
Information
Perennial from a short creeping rhizome, often with long surface stolons. Culms mostly 30–90 cm. high, erect or geniculately ascending, somewhat swollen at the base, often almost suffrutescent with tufts of innovation shoots arising at intervals on the tough wiry culms. Leaf-blades 5–16 cm. long and 2–7 mm. wide, involute or flat, glaucous, pubescent above and beneath. Panicle oblong, 6–12 cm. long and 2–4.5 cm. wide, loose or slightly contracted. Spikelets obovate in side view, up to 15 mm. long, the florets silky villous; glumes grey-green, glabrous or finely pubescent, acute to subobtuse, the lower 4.6–7.5 mm. long, the upper 6–9 mm. long; lowest lemma 8.5–14 mm. long, lobed for one-third of its length, the lobes often mucronate or shortly aristulate; awns 4.5–8 mm. long, straight, scaberulous; palea 4.3–5.8 mm. long, villous. Fig. 54, p. 166.
Range
DISTR. U1; K1, 2, 4, 7; T1–3, 5, 7 Ethiopia to South Africa
Altitude range
200–1800 m.
Distribution
KENYA Northern Frontier Province Wajir, 27 May 1952, Gillett 13369!KENYA W. Suk District 65 km. N. of Kapenguria, Marich [Marech] Pass, 13 Nov. 1953, Bogdan 3845!KENYA Machakos District 240 km. on Mombasa-Nairobi road, 15 Apr. 1960, Verdcourt & Polhill 2701!TANGANYIKA Musoma District 90 km. from Seronera to Klein’s Camp, 17 May 1961, Greenway 10301!TANGANYIKA Lushoto District Buiko, 10 July 1942, Greenway 6585!TANGANYIKA Iringa District Ruaha National Park, Feb. 1963, Procter 2385!UGANDA Karamoja District Arnudat, May 1948, Eggeling 5819!
Distribution (external)
Senegal
Mauritania
Cape Verde Is
Notes
S. pappophoroïdes has been associated with considerable taxonomic confusion, for the plants vary from densely caespitose to suffrutescent with arching runners. Launert (l.c.) has shown that these forms are intergrading and are uncorrelated with the manifest variation in spikelet dimensions. He concludes that only one species should be recognized.
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