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CHAETOPOA C.E. 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, page 451, (1982) Author: W. D. CLAYTON and S.A. RENVOIZE
Names
CHAETOPOA C.E. Hubbard [family POACEAE], in Hook., Ic. Pl. 37, fig. 3646 (1967)
Information
Annuals. Leaf-blades flat; ligule membranous. Inflorescence spike-like, its straight angular rhachis bearing deciduous sessile clusters of 7–9 spikelets; clusters cuneate, the 6–8 outer spikelets sterile (rarely ♂) pedicelled and involucral, the inner hermaphrodite and subsessile. Outer spikelets lanceolate to oblong, dorsally compressed; glumes subulate from a broad base; lower floret reduced to a membranous lemma as long as the spikelet; upper lemma reduced or absent. Inner spikelet larger; lower glume suppressed, the upper subulate or oblong; lower floret reduced to a membranous lemma as long as the spikelet; upper lemma thinly chartaceous with the flat thin margins covering the palea. Caryopsis lanceolate to oblong, dorsally compressed.
Range
Species 2; Tanzania.
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
CHAETOPOA C.E. Hubbard [family POACEAE], in Hook., Ic. Pl. 37, fig. 3646 (1967)
Information
Annuals. Leaf-blades flat; ligule membranous. Inflorescence spike-like, its straight angular rhachis bearing deciduous sessile clusters of 7–9 spikelets; clusters cuneate, the 6–8 outer spikelets sterile (rarely ♂) pedicelled and involucral, the inner hermaphrodite and subsessile. Outer spikelets lanceolate to oblong, dorsally compressed; glumes subulate from a broad base; lower floret reduced to a membranous lemma as long as the spikelet; upper lemma reduced or absent. Inner spikelet larger; lower glume suppressed, the upper subulate or oblong; lower floret reduced to a membranous lemma as long as the spikelet; upper lemma thinly chartaceous with the flat thin margins covering the palea. Caryopsis lanceolate to oblong, dorsally compressed.
Range
Species 2; Tanzania.
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
CHAETOPOA C.E. Hubbard [family POACEAE], in Hook., Ic. Pl. 37, fig. 3646 (1967)
Information
Annuals. Leaf-blades flat; ligule membranous. Inflorescence spike-like, its straight angular rhachis bearing deciduous sessile clusters of 7–9 spikelets; clusters cuneate, the 6–8 outer spikelets sterile (rarely ♂) pedicelled and involucral, the inner hermaphrodite and subsessile. Outer spikelets lanceolate to oblong, dorsally compressed; glumes subulate from a broad base; lower floret reduced to a membranous lemma as long as the spikelet; upper lemma reduced or absent. Inner spikelet larger; lower glume suppressed, the upper subulate or oblong; lower floret reduced to a membranous lemma as long as the spikelet; upper lemma thinly chartaceous with the flat thin margins covering the palea. Caryopsis lanceolate to oblong, dorsally compressed.
Range
Species 2; Tanzania.
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