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DIGNATHIA Stapf [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 2), page 177, (1974) Author: W. D. CLAYTON, S. M. PHILLIPS AND S. A. RENVOIZE
Names
DIGNATHIA Stapf [family POACEAE], in Hook., Ic. Pl. 30, t. 2950 (1911)
Information
Annuals or perennials. Leaf-blades flat, narrow; ligule a membranous rim, ciliate along the top. Inflorescence stiff, cylindrical, spike-like, dense or moderately open, with the spikelets in pedunculate deciduous clusters of 2–3; clusters racemose, the spikelets sessile on a very short curvaceous rhachis. Spikelets narrowly ovate to orbicular, laterally compressed, the upper reduced; glumes well developed, thickly indurated, with narrow hyaline margins, ± gibbous, scaberulous to lanose, the upper drawn out into a stiff point; lemma broadly ovate, shorter than the glumes, membranous, 3-nerved, terminating in a short awn-point; stamens 3. Caryopsis ellipsoid, gibbous, laterally compressed.
Range
Species 4; NE. tropical Africa, and India (Cutch).
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 2), page 177, (1974) Author: W. D. CLAYTON, S. M. PHILLIPS AND S. A. RENVOIZE
Names
DIGNATHIA Stapf [family POACEAE], in Hook., Ic. Pl. 30, t. 2950 (1911)
Information
Annuals or perennials. Leaf-blades flat, narrow; ligule a membranous rim, ciliate along the top. Inflorescence stiff, cylindrical, spike-like, dense or moderately open, with the spikelets in pedunculate deciduous clusters of 2–3; clusters racemose, the spikelets sessile on a very short curvaceous rhachis. Spikelets narrowly ovate to orbicular, laterally compressed, the upper reduced; glumes well developed, thickly indurated, with narrow hyaline margins, ± gibbous, scaberulous to lanose, the upper drawn out into a stiff point; lemma broadly ovate, shorter than the glumes, membranous, 3-nerved, terminating in a short awn-point; stamens 3. Caryopsis ellipsoid, gibbous, laterally compressed.
Range
Species 4; NE. tropical Africa, and India (Cutch).
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 2), page 177, (1974) Author: W. D. CLAYTON, S. M. PHILLIPS AND S. A. RENVOIZE
Names
DIGNATHIA Stapf [family POACEAE], in Hook., Ic. Pl. 30, t. 2950 (1911)
Information
Annuals or perennials. Leaf-blades flat, narrow; ligule a membranous rim, ciliate along the top. Inflorescence stiff, cylindrical, spike-like, dense or moderately open, with the spikelets in pedunculate deciduous clusters of 2–3; clusters racemose, the spikelets sessile on a very short curvaceous rhachis. Spikelets narrowly ovate to orbicular, laterally compressed, the upper reduced; glumes well developed, thickly indurated, with narrow hyaline margins, ± gibbous, scaberulous to lanose, the upper drawn out into a stiff point; lemma broadly ovate, shorter than the glumes, membranous, 3-nerved, terminating in a short awn-point; stamens 3. Caryopsis ellipsoid, gibbous, laterally compressed.
Range
Species 4; NE. tropical Africa, and India (Cutch).
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