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HOLCOLEMMA inaequale W.D. Clayton [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, page 451, (1982) Author: W. D. CLAYTON and S.A. RENVOIZE
Names
HOLCOLEMMA inaequale W.D. Clayton [family POACEAE], in K.B. 32: 773 (1978). Type: Kenya, Kurawa, Polhill & Paulo 564 (K, holo.!)
HOLCOLEMMA canaliculatum [family POACEAE], [sensu F.T.A. 9: 867 (1930); R.K.G.: 42 (1958), non (Steud.) Stapf & Hubbard]
Information
Loosely tufted perennial, the culms geniculately ascending from a knotty rootstock; culms 30–60 cm. high, slender. Leaf-blades linear, 4–15 cm. long, 2–4 mm. wide. Panicle subspiciform, 5–17 cm. long, interrupted, with very short appressed branchlets, at least the longer branchlets terminating in a bristle 2–5 mm. long, but these inconspicuous. Spikelets lanceolate, 2.5–3.5 mm. long; glumes obtuse to subacute, the lower 1/4, the upper 1/2 as long as the spikelet; lower floret ♂, its lemma with a median groove widening towards the base, its palea as long as and broader than the lemma with coriaceous keels; upper lemma rugose, ± 0.5 mm. shorter than the lower lemma.
Range
DISTR. K7; T6 endemic to East Africa
Altitude range
10–200 m.
Distribution
KENYA Mombasa, Boivin !KENYA Tana River District Kurawa, 25 Sept. 1961, Polhill & Paulo 564! & 7 Oct. 1961, Polhill & Paulo 619!TANZANIA Morogoro District Selous Reserve, Behobeho, 27 Jan. 1968, Nicholson 113!
Notes
This species is closely related to H. canaliculatum (Steud.) Stapf & Hubbard from southern India and Sri Lanka. The latter has subequal lemmas, the upper being finely and rather indistinctly rugose.
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, page 451, (1982) Author: W. D. CLAYTON and S.A. RENVOIZE
Names
HOLCOLEMMA inaequale W.D. Clayton [family POACEAE], in K.B. 32: 773 (1978). Type: Kenya, Kurawa, Polhill & Paulo 564 (K, holo.!)
HOLCOLEMMA canaliculatum [family POACEAE], [sensu F.T.A. 9: 867 (1930); R.K.G.: 42 (1958), non (Steud.) Stapf & Hubbard]
Information
Loosely tufted perennial, the culms geniculately ascending from a knotty rootstock; culms 30–60 cm. high, slender. Leaf-blades linear, 4–15 cm. long, 2–4 mm. wide. Panicle subspiciform, 5–17 cm. long, interrupted, with very short appressed branchlets, at least the longer branchlets terminating in a bristle 2–5 mm. long, but these inconspicuous. Spikelets lanceolate, 2.5–3.5 mm. long; glumes obtuse to subacute, the lower 1/4, the upper 1/2 as long as the spikelet; lower floret ♂, its lemma with a median groove widening towards the base, its palea as long as and broader than the lemma with coriaceous keels; upper lemma rugose, ± 0.5 mm. shorter than the lower lemma.
Range
DISTR. K7; T6 endemic to East Africa
Altitude range
10–200 m.
Distribution
KENYA Mombasa, Boivin !KENYA Tana River District Kurawa, 25 Sept. 1961, Polhill & Paulo 564! & 7 Oct. 1961, Polhill & Paulo 619!TANZANIA Morogoro District Selous Reserve, Behobeho, 27 Jan. 1968, Nicholson 113!
Notes
This species is closely related to H. canaliculatum (Steud.) Stapf & Hubbard from southern India and Sri Lanka. The latter has subequal lemmas, the upper being finely and rather indistinctly rugose.
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, page 451, (1982) Author: W. D. CLAYTON and S.A. RENVOIZE
Names
HOLCOLEMMA inaequale W.D. Clayton [family POACEAE], in K.B. 32: 773 (1978). Type: Kenya, Kurawa, Polhill & Paulo 564 (K, holo.!)
HOLCOLEMMA canaliculatum [family POACEAE], [sensu F.T.A. 9: 867 (1930); R.K.G.: 42 (1958), non (Steud.) Stapf & Hubbard]
Information
Loosely tufted perennial, the culms geniculately ascending from a knotty rootstock; culms 30–60 cm. high, slender. Leaf-blades linear, 4–15 cm. long, 2–4 mm. wide. Panicle subspiciform, 5–17 cm. long, interrupted, with very short appressed branchlets, at least the longer branchlets terminating in a bristle 2–5 mm. long, but these inconspicuous. Spikelets lanceolate, 2.5–3.5 mm. long; glumes obtuse to subacute, the lower 1/4, the upper 1/2 as long as the spikelet; lower floret ♂, its lemma with a median groove widening towards the base, its palea as long as and broader than the lemma with coriaceous keels; upper lemma rugose, ± 0.5 mm. shorter than the lower lemma.
Range
DISTR. K7; T6 endemic to East Africa
Altitude range
10–200 m.
Distribution
KENYA Mombasa, Boivin !KENYA Tana River District Kurawa, 25 Sept. 1961, Polhill & Paulo 564! & 7 Oct. 1961, Polhill & Paulo 619!TANZANIA Morogoro District Selous Reserve, Behobeho, 27 Jan. 1968, Nicholson 113!
Notes
This species is closely related to H. canaliculatum (Steud.) Stapf & Hubbard from southern India and Sri Lanka. The latter has subequal lemmas, the upper being finely and rather indistinctly rugose.
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