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CLEISTACHNE sorghoides Benth. [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
CLEISTACHNE sorghoides Benth. [family POACEAE], in Hook., Ic. Pl. 14, t. 1379 (1882); F.T.A. 9: 154 (1917); Fl. Agrost. Congo Belge 1: 98 (1929); Ann. list grasses Ug.: 10 (1947); F.P.N.A. 3: 47 (1955); R.K.G.: 56 (1958); Ann. list Nyasaland grasses: 33 (1958); I.G.U.: 22 (1960); G.T.: 98 (1965). Type: Mozambique, Shupanga, Kirk (K, holo.!)
CLEISTACHNE stocksii Hook. f. [family POACEAE], Fl. Brit. Ind. 7: 162 (1896). Types: India, Bababoodan hills, Stocks (K, syn.!) & Ritchie 889 (K, syn.!)
CLEISTACHNE macrantha Stapf [family POACEAE], in F.T.A. 9: 155 (1917). Types: Kenya, Mombasa, Hildebrandt 1956 (K, syn.!) & Tanzania, Lushoto District, Lutindi, Holst 3232 (K, syn.!) & Bombo valley, Holst 3233
Information
Coarse annual, often supported by stilt roots; culms 60–250 cm. high. Leaf-blades 20–90 cm. long, 4–15 mm. wide, often narrowed to the midrib and falsely petiolate below. Panicle linear to narrowly lanceolate, 8–40 cm. long; racemes up to 4–8 cm. long, borne on the main axis or on very short branches; internodes and pedicels pilose. Spikelets oblong-elliptic, (3–)4–5(–6) mm. long; lower glume dark brown to black, pubescent with white or fulvous hairs; lower lemma fulvously pubescent at the tip; awn 15–35 mm. long. Fig. 170.
Range
DISTR. U2–4; K7; T1, 3–8; Z; P eastern Africa from the Sudan, Zaire and Congo (Brazzaville) to the Transvaal
Altitude range
0–2000 m.
Distribution
KENYA Kwale District Kwale road, 26 July 1948, Allan 96!KENYA Kilifi District Kibarani, 3 Aug. 1939, Moggridge 455! & Malindi, 8 Aug. 1949, Bogdan 2549!TANZANIA Lushoto District Sangerawe, 14 Oct. 1936, Greenway 4677!TANZANIA Dodoma District Sagara, 10 July 1965, Faulkner 3594!TANZANIA Morogoro District Uluguru Mts., 17 Mar. 1933, Schlieben 3653!TANZANIA Zanzibar I., Mahonda, 15 June 1962, Faulkner 3051!TANZANIA Pemba I., June-July 1928, Vaughan 204UGANDA Toro District Kitijo (?Katojo), 20 Feb. 1939, A.S. Thomas 2763!UGANDA Ankole District Rubirizi, 29 May 1929, Snowden 1365!UGANDA Mengo District Ngogwe, 8 Mar. 1956, Harker 267!
Distribution (external)
India
Notes
The spikelets are typically 4–5 mm. long, but specimens from Uganda and India tend to have spikelets 3.5–4 mm. long. These local populations clearly emerge as statistical entities, but there is so much overlap that spikelet length is of little diagnostic value.
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
CLEISTACHNE sorghoides Benth. [family POACEAE], in Hook., Ic. Pl. 14, t. 1379 (1882); F.T.A. 9: 154 (1917); Fl. Agrost. Congo Belge 1: 98 (1929); Ann. list grasses Ug.: 10 (1947); F.P.N.A. 3: 47 (1955); R.K.G.: 56 (1958); Ann. list Nyasaland grasses: 33 (1958); I.G.U.: 22 (1960); G.T.: 98 (1965). Type: Mozambique, Shupanga, Kirk (K, holo.!)
CLEISTACHNE stocksii Hook. f. [family POACEAE], Fl. Brit. Ind. 7: 162 (1896). Types: India, Bababoodan hills, Stocks (K, syn.!) & Ritchie 889 (K, syn.!)
CLEISTACHNE macrantha Stapf [family POACEAE], in F.T.A. 9: 155 (1917). Types: Kenya, Mombasa, Hildebrandt 1956 (K, syn.!) & Tanzania, Lushoto District, Lutindi, Holst 3232 (K, syn.!) & Bombo valley, Holst 3233
Information
Coarse annual, often supported by stilt roots; culms 60–250 cm. high. Leaf-blades 20–90 cm. long, 4–15 mm. wide, often narrowed to the midrib and falsely petiolate below. Panicle linear to narrowly lanceolate, 8–40 cm. long; racemes up to 4–8 cm. long, borne on the main axis or on very short branches; internodes and pedicels pilose. Spikelets oblong-elliptic, (3–)4–5(–6) mm. long; lower glume dark brown to black, pubescent with white or fulvous hairs; lower lemma fulvously pubescent at the tip; awn 15–35 mm. long. Fig. 170.
Range
DISTR. U2–4; K7; T1, 3–8; Z; P eastern Africa from the Sudan, Zaire and Congo (Brazzaville) to the Transvaal
Altitude range
0–2000 m.
Distribution
KENYA Kwale District Kwale road, 26 July 1948, Allan 96!KENYA Kilifi District Kibarani, 3 Aug. 1939, Moggridge 455! & Malindi, 8 Aug. 1949, Bogdan 2549!TANZANIA Lushoto District Sangerawe, 14 Oct. 1936, Greenway 4677!TANZANIA Dodoma District Sagara, 10 July 1965, Faulkner 3594!TANZANIA Morogoro District Uluguru Mts., 17 Mar. 1933, Schlieben 3653!TANZANIA Zanzibar I., Mahonda, 15 June 1962, Faulkner 3051!TANZANIA Pemba I., June-July 1928, Vaughan 204UGANDA Toro District Kitijo (?Katojo), 20 Feb. 1939, A.S. Thomas 2763!UGANDA Ankole District Rubirizi, 29 May 1929, Snowden 1365!UGANDA Mengo District Ngogwe, 8 Mar. 1956, Harker 267!
Distribution (external)
India
Notes
The spikelets are typically 4–5 mm. long, but specimens from Uganda and India tend to have spikelets 3.5–4 mm. long. These local populations clearly emerge as statistical entities, but there is so much overlap that spikelet length is of little diagnostic value.
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
CLEISTACHNE sorghoides Benth. [family POACEAE], in Hook., Ic. Pl. 14, t. 1379 (1882); F.T.A. 9: 154 (1917); Fl. Agrost. Congo Belge 1: 98 (1929); Ann. list grasses Ug.: 10 (1947); F.P.N.A. 3: 47 (1955); R.K.G.: 56 (1958); Ann. list Nyasaland grasses: 33 (1958); I.G.U.: 22 (1960); G.T.: 98 (1965). Type: Mozambique, Shupanga, Kirk (K, holo.!)
CLEISTACHNE stocksii Hook. f. [family POACEAE], Fl. Brit. Ind. 7: 162 (1896). Types: India, Bababoodan hills, Stocks (K, syn.!) & Ritchie 889 (K, syn.!)
CLEISTACHNE macrantha Stapf [family POACEAE], in F.T.A. 9: 155 (1917). Types: Kenya, Mombasa, Hildebrandt 1956 (K, syn.!) & Tanzania, Lushoto District, Lutindi, Holst 3232 (K, syn.!) & Bombo valley, Holst 3233
Information
Coarse annual, often supported by stilt roots; culms 60–250 cm. high. Leaf-blades 20–90 cm. long, 4–15 mm. wide, often narrowed to the midrib and falsely petiolate below. Panicle linear to narrowly lanceolate, 8–40 cm. long; racemes up to 4–8 cm. long, borne on the main axis or on very short branches; internodes and pedicels pilose. Spikelets oblong-elliptic, (3–)4–5(–6) mm. long; lower glume dark brown to black, pubescent with white or fulvous hairs; lower lemma fulvously pubescent at the tip; awn 15–35 mm. long. Fig. 170.
Range
DISTR. U2–4; K7; T1, 3–8; Z; P eastern Africa from the Sudan, Zaire and Congo (Brazzaville) to the Transvaal
Altitude range
0–2000 m.
Distribution
KENYA Kwale District Kwale road, 26 July 1948, Allan 96!KENYA Kilifi District Kibarani, 3 Aug. 1939, Moggridge 455! & Malindi, 8 Aug. 1949, Bogdan 2549!TANZANIA Lushoto District Sangerawe, 14 Oct. 1936, Greenway 4677!TANZANIA Dodoma District Sagara, 10 July 1965, Faulkner 3594!TANZANIA Morogoro District Uluguru Mts., 17 Mar. 1933, Schlieben 3653!TANZANIA Zanzibar I., Mahonda, 15 June 1962, Faulkner 3051!TANZANIA Pemba I., June-July 1928, Vaughan 204UGANDA Toro District Kitijo (?Katojo), 20 Feb. 1939, A.S. Thomas 2763!UGANDA Ankole District Rubirizi, 29 May 1929, Snowden 1365!UGANDA Mengo District Ngogwe, 8 Mar. 1956, Harker 267!
Distribution (external)
India
Notes
The spikelets are typically 4–5 mm. long, but specimens from Uganda and India tend to have spikelets 3.5–4 mm. long. These local populations clearly emerge as statistical entities, but there is so much overlap that spikelet length is of little diagnostic value.
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