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DIGNATHIA hirtella 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 hirtella Stapf [family POACEAE], in Hook., Ic. Pl. 30, t. 2950 (1911); Chiov., Fl. Somala 2: 443 (1932); R.K.G.: 34 (1958). Type: Kenya, without precise locality, Linton 4 (K, holo.!)
Information
Loosely tufted annual; culms 10–25 cm. high, wiry, erect. Leaf-blades 1–6 cm. long, 1–3 mm. wide. Inflorescence 2–5 cm. long, exserted from the sheath, the clusters contiguous to approximate; clusters 5–9 mm. long, comprising (1–)2 fertile spikelets and a reduced terminal spikelet of 2 gaping sterile glumes. Spikelets suborbicular with rostrate tip, 5–7 mm. long; glumes appressed pubescent, ciliate on the margins; lower glume crescent-shaped, shorter than the spikelet; upper glume with gibbous body 1.5–2 mm. long, drawn out into a stiff pointed beak above.
Range
DISTR. K1, 4, 7
Altitude range
300–800 m.
Distribution
KENYA Northern Frontier Province Mandera, Gillett 13317!KENYA Machakos District Kibwezi, 23 May 1959, McCallum Webster K.173! & Bushwhackers Safari Camp (Masalani), 20 Mar. 1969, Napper 1967 !
Distribution (external)
Somali Republic
India (Cutch)
Notes
Differs from D. gracilis only in the size and hairiness of the glumes. The differences seem rather slight, but so far no intermediates between the species have been found.
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 hirtella Stapf [family POACEAE], in Hook., Ic. Pl. 30, t. 2950 (1911); Chiov., Fl. Somala 2: 443 (1932); R.K.G.: 34 (1958). Type: Kenya, without precise locality, Linton 4 (K, holo.!)
Information
Loosely tufted annual; culms 10–25 cm. high, wiry, erect. Leaf-blades 1–6 cm. long, 1–3 mm. wide. Inflorescence 2–5 cm. long, exserted from the sheath, the clusters contiguous to approximate; clusters 5–9 mm. long, comprising (1–)2 fertile spikelets and a reduced terminal spikelet of 2 gaping sterile glumes. Spikelets suborbicular with rostrate tip, 5–7 mm. long; glumes appressed pubescent, ciliate on the margins; lower glume crescent-shaped, shorter than the spikelet; upper glume with gibbous body 1.5–2 mm. long, drawn out into a stiff pointed beak above.
Range
DISTR. K1, 4, 7
Altitude range
300–800 m.
Distribution
KENYA Northern Frontier Province Mandera, Gillett 13317!KENYA Machakos District Kibwezi, 23 May 1959, McCallum Webster K.173! & Bushwhackers Safari Camp (Masalani), 20 Mar. 1969, Napper 1967 !
Distribution (external)
Somali Republic
India (Cutch)
Notes
Differs from D. gracilis only in the size and hairiness of the glumes. The differences seem rather slight, but so far no intermediates between the species have been found.
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 hirtella Stapf [family POACEAE], in Hook., Ic. Pl. 30, t. 2950 (1911); Chiov., Fl. Somala 2: 443 (1932); R.K.G.: 34 (1958). Type: Kenya, without precise locality, Linton 4 (K, holo.!)
Information
Loosely tufted annual; culms 10–25 cm. high, wiry, erect. Leaf-blades 1–6 cm. long, 1–3 mm. wide. Inflorescence 2–5 cm. long, exserted from the sheath, the clusters contiguous to approximate; clusters 5–9 mm. long, comprising (1–)2 fertile spikelets and a reduced terminal spikelet of 2 gaping sterile glumes. Spikelets suborbicular with rostrate tip, 5–7 mm. long; glumes appressed pubescent, ciliate on the margins; lower glume crescent-shaped, shorter than the spikelet; upper glume with gibbous body 1.5–2 mm. long, drawn out into a stiff pointed beak above.
Range
DISTR. K1, 4, 7
Altitude range
300–800 m.
Distribution
KENYA Northern Frontier Province Mandera, Gillett 13317!KENYA Machakos District Kibwezi, 23 May 1959, McCallum Webster K.173! & Bushwhackers Safari Camp (Masalani), 20 Mar. 1969, Napper 1967 !
Distribution (external)
Somali Republic
India (Cutch)
Notes
Differs from D. gracilis only in the size and hairiness of the glumes. The differences seem rather slight, but so far no intermediates between the species have been found.
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