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HYPARRHENIA hirta (L.) 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, page 451, (1982) Author: W. D. CLAYTON and S.A. RENVOIZE
Names
HYPARRHENIA hirta (L.) Stapf [family POACEAE], in F.T.A. 9: 315 (1919); Chiov. et al., Miss. Biol. Borana, Race. Bot: 273 (1939); Ann. list grasses Ug.: 24 (1947); F.P.S. 3: 468 (1956); R.K.G.: 60 (1958); G.T.: 107 (1965); Clayton in F.W.T.A., ed. 2, 3: 492 (1972). Type: Italy, Burser I.119 (UPS, holo., K, michrofiche!)
Andropogon hirtus L. [family POACEAE], Sp.Pl.: 1046 (1753)
Andropogon podotrichus Hochst. [family POACEAE], in sched., Schimp. Iter Abyss. 2: 1056 (1842). Type: Ethiopia, without locality, Schimper 1056 (K, iso.!)
Cymbopogon hirtus (L.) Thomson [family POACEAE], in Speke, Journ. Disc. Source Nile: 652 (1863)
Hyparrhenia podotricha (Hochst.) Anderss. [family POACEAE], in Schweinf., Beitr. Fl. Aeth.: 310 (1867), nom. invalid., publ. gen. ante
Andropogon hirtus (Hochst.) Hack. var. podotrichus [family POACEAE], in DC., Monogr. Phan. 6: 620 (1889)
Andropogon transvaalensis Stapf [family POACEAE], in Fl. Cap. 7: 363 (1898). Type: South Africa, Johannesburg, E.S.C.A. Herb. 301 (K, holo.!)
Cymbopogon transvaalensis (Stapf) Burtt-Davy [family POACEAE], in Ann. Transv. Mus. 3: 122 (1912)
Cymbopogon modicus De Wild. [family POACEAE], in B.J.B.B. 6: 16 (1919). Type: Zaire, Lubumbashi [Elisabethville], Bequaert 310 (BR, holo.!)
Hyparrhenia modica (De Wild.) Robyns [family POACEAE], Fl. Agrost. Congo Belge 1: 172 (1929)
Hyparrhenia hirta (Hochst.) Pic.-Serm. var. podotricha [family POACEAE], in Miss. Stud. Lago Tana 7, Ricerche Bot. 1: 174 (1951)
Information
Caespitose perennial arising from short underground rhizomes, the basal leaf-sheaths glabrous or very rarely obscurely puberulous; flowering culms wiry, typically 30–60 cm. high (1 m. or more in exceptionally robust plants), standing over a dense leafy tussock 10–20 cm. high. Leaf-blades narrowly linear to conduplicate and filiform, 2–15(–30) cm. long, 1–2(–4) mm. wide, flexuous, glaucous, harshly scaberulous. False panicle typically scanty, up to 30 cm. long, bearing 2–10 raceme-pairs or sometimes more; spatheoles linear-lanceolate, 3–8 cm. long, at length reddish, the peduncles about as long; racemes 2–4 cm. long, 8–13(–16)-awned per pair, white villous, never deflexed; raceme-bases unequal, the upper 2.5–5 mm. long, filiform, glabrous or more often pubescent to hirsute. Homogamous pairs 1 at the base of the lower or both racemes. Sessile spikelet 4–6.5 mm. long, white villous (occasionally the hairs rather sparse); callus 0.5–1.5 mm. long, subacute to acute; awn 10–35 mm. long, puberulous with white hairs 0.1–0.3 mm. long. Pedicelled spikelet white villous, muticous.
Range
DISTR. U1, 3; K1, 3, 4, 6; T1–3, 5, 7, 8 Mediterranean and NE. tropical Africa, through Arabia and the Middle East to Pakistan; South Africa; isolated records from Niger, Zambia and Angola; also, probably introduced, in Australia and central America
Altitude range
600–2600 m.
Distribution
KENYA Northern Frontier Province Mt. Kulal, 9 Oct. 1947, Bally 5538a !KENYA Nakuru District Soysambu Estate, 30 July 1947, Bogdan 933!KENYA Masai District Ngong, 15 Jan. 1945, van Someren 9547!TANZANIA Musoma District Klein’s Camp, 6 Apr. 1961, Greenway & Turner 9999!TANZANIA Masai District W. side of Ngorongoro Crater floor, Engitai Hill, 24 July 1966, Greenway & Kanuri 12608!TANZANIA Lushoto District Mombo-Soni road, 24 June 1953, Drummond & Hemsley 3002!UGANDA Karamoja District Napak [Kamalinga], 22 Dec. 1938, D.R. Brown 21! & July 1930, Liebenberg 1748!
Notes
A widespread and variable species, which intergrades with a number of others. It is recognized by the scanty panicle of white villous racemes which never deflex; by the many-awned racemes with 0–1 homogamous pairs at the base of the upper (specimens bordering on H. anamesa are often difficult to assign with certainty); and by the harsh narrow leaves forming a basal tussock.
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
HYPARRHENIA hirta (L.) Stapf [family POACEAE], in F.T.A. 9: 315 (1919); Chiov. et al., Miss. Biol. Borana, Race. Bot: 273 (1939); Ann. list grasses Ug.: 24 (1947); F.P.S. 3: 468 (1956); R.K.G.: 60 (1958); G.T.: 107 (1965); Clayton in F.W.T.A., ed. 2, 3: 492 (1972). Type: Italy, Burser I.119 (UPS, holo., K, michrofiche!)
Andropogon hirtus L. [family POACEAE], Sp.Pl.: 1046 (1753)
Andropogon podotrichus Hochst. [family POACEAE], in sched., Schimp. Iter Abyss. 2: 1056 (1842). Type: Ethiopia, without locality, Schimper 1056 (K, iso.!)
Cymbopogon hirtus (L.) Thomson [family POACEAE], in Speke, Journ. Disc. Source Nile: 652 (1863)
Hyparrhenia podotricha (Hochst.) Anderss. [family POACEAE], in Schweinf., Beitr. Fl. Aeth.: 310 (1867), nom. invalid., publ. gen. ante
Andropogon hirtus (Hochst.) Hack. var. podotrichus [family POACEAE], in DC., Monogr. Phan. 6: 620 (1889)
Andropogon transvaalensis Stapf [family POACEAE], in Fl. Cap. 7: 363 (1898). Type: South Africa, Johannesburg, E.S.C.A. Herb. 301 (K, holo.!)
Cymbopogon transvaalensis (Stapf) Burtt-Davy [family POACEAE], in Ann. Transv. Mus. 3: 122 (1912)
Cymbopogon modicus De Wild. [family POACEAE], in B.J.B.B. 6: 16 (1919). Type: Zaire, Lubumbashi [Elisabethville], Bequaert 310 (BR, holo.!)
Hyparrhenia modica (De Wild.) Robyns [family POACEAE], Fl. Agrost. Congo Belge 1: 172 (1929)
Hyparrhenia hirta (Hochst.) Pic.-Serm. var. podotricha [family POACEAE], in Miss. Stud. Lago Tana 7, Ricerche Bot. 1: 174 (1951)
Information
Caespitose perennial arising from short underground rhizomes, the basal leaf-sheaths glabrous or very rarely obscurely puberulous; flowering culms wiry, typically 30–60 cm. high (1 m. or more in exceptionally robust plants), standing over a dense leafy tussock 10–20 cm. high. Leaf-blades narrowly linear to conduplicate and filiform, 2–15(–30) cm. long, 1–2(–4) mm. wide, flexuous, glaucous, harshly scaberulous. False panicle typically scanty, up to 30 cm. long, bearing 2–10 raceme-pairs or sometimes more; spatheoles linear-lanceolate, 3–8 cm. long, at length reddish, the peduncles about as long; racemes 2–4 cm. long, 8–13(–16)-awned per pair, white villous, never deflexed; raceme-bases unequal, the upper 2.5–5 mm. long, filiform, glabrous or more often pubescent to hirsute. Homogamous pairs 1 at the base of the lower or both racemes. Sessile spikelet 4–6.5 mm. long, white villous (occasionally the hairs rather sparse); callus 0.5–1.5 mm. long, subacute to acute; awn 10–35 mm. long, puberulous with white hairs 0.1–0.3 mm. long. Pedicelled spikelet white villous, muticous.
Range
DISTR. U1, 3; K1, 3, 4, 6; T1–3, 5, 7, 8 Mediterranean and NE. tropical Africa, through Arabia and the Middle East to Pakistan; South Africa; isolated records from Niger, Zambia and Angola; also, probably introduced, in Australia and central America
Altitude range
600–2600 m.
Distribution
KENYA Northern Frontier Province Mt. Kulal, 9 Oct. 1947, Bally 5538a !KENYA Nakuru District Soysambu Estate, 30 July 1947, Bogdan 933!KENYA Masai District Ngong, 15 Jan. 1945, van Someren 9547!TANZANIA Musoma District Klein’s Camp, 6 Apr. 1961, Greenway & Turner 9999!TANZANIA Masai District W. side of Ngorongoro Crater floor, Engitai Hill, 24 July 1966, Greenway & Kanuri 12608!TANZANIA Lushoto District Mombo-Soni road, 24 June 1953, Drummond & Hemsley 3002!UGANDA Karamoja District Napak [Kamalinga], 22 Dec. 1938, D.R. Brown 21! & July 1930, Liebenberg 1748!
Notes
A widespread and variable species, which intergrades with a number of others. It is recognized by the scanty panicle of white villous racemes which never deflex; by the many-awned racemes with 0–1 homogamous pairs at the base of the upper (specimens bordering on H. anamesa are often difficult to assign with certainty); and by the harsh narrow leaves forming a basal tussock.
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
HYPARRHENIA hirta (L.) Stapf [family POACEAE], in F.T.A. 9: 315 (1919); Chiov. et al., Miss. Biol. Borana, Race. Bot: 273 (1939); Ann. list grasses Ug.: 24 (1947); F.P.S. 3: 468 (1956); R.K.G.: 60 (1958); G.T.: 107 (1965); Clayton in F.W.T.A., ed. 2, 3: 492 (1972). Type: Italy, Burser I.119 (UPS, holo., K, michrofiche!)
Andropogon hirtus L. [family POACEAE], Sp.Pl.: 1046 (1753)
Andropogon podotrichus Hochst. [family POACEAE], in sched., Schimp. Iter Abyss. 2: 1056 (1842). Type: Ethiopia, without locality, Schimper 1056 (K, iso.!)
Cymbopogon hirtus (L.) Thomson [family POACEAE], in Speke, Journ. Disc. Source Nile: 652 (1863)
Hyparrhenia podotricha (Hochst.) Anderss. [family POACEAE], in Schweinf., Beitr. Fl. Aeth.: 310 (1867), nom. invalid., publ. gen. ante
Andropogon hirtus (Hochst.) Hack. var. podotrichus [family POACEAE], in DC., Monogr. Phan. 6: 620 (1889)
Andropogon transvaalensis Stapf [family POACEAE], in Fl. Cap. 7: 363 (1898). Type: South Africa, Johannesburg, E.S.C.A. Herb. 301 (K, holo.!)
Cymbopogon transvaalensis (Stapf) Burtt-Davy [family POACEAE], in Ann. Transv. Mus. 3: 122 (1912)
Cymbopogon modicus De Wild. [family POACEAE], in B.J.B.B. 6: 16 (1919). Type: Zaire, Lubumbashi [Elisabethville], Bequaert 310 (BR, holo.!)
Hyparrhenia modica (De Wild.) Robyns [family POACEAE], Fl. Agrost. Congo Belge 1: 172 (1929)
Hyparrhenia hirta (Hochst.) Pic.-Serm. var. podotricha [family POACEAE], in Miss. Stud. Lago Tana 7, Ricerche Bot. 1: 174 (1951)
Information
Caespitose perennial arising from short underground rhizomes, the basal leaf-sheaths glabrous or very rarely obscurely puberulous; flowering culms wiry, typically 30–60 cm. high (1 m. or more in exceptionally robust plants), standing over a dense leafy tussock 10–20 cm. high. Leaf-blades narrowly linear to conduplicate and filiform, 2–15(–30) cm. long, 1–2(–4) mm. wide, flexuous, glaucous, harshly scaberulous. False panicle typically scanty, up to 30 cm. long, bearing 2–10 raceme-pairs or sometimes more; spatheoles linear-lanceolate, 3–8 cm. long, at length reddish, the peduncles about as long; racemes 2–4 cm. long, 8–13(–16)-awned per pair, white villous, never deflexed; raceme-bases unequal, the upper 2.5–5 mm. long, filiform, glabrous or more often pubescent to hirsute. Homogamous pairs 1 at the base of the lower or both racemes. Sessile spikelet 4–6.5 mm. long, white villous (occasionally the hairs rather sparse); callus 0.5–1.5 mm. long, subacute to acute; awn 10–35 mm. long, puberulous with white hairs 0.1–0.3 mm. long. Pedicelled spikelet white villous, muticous.
Range
DISTR. U1, 3; K1, 3, 4, 6; T1–3, 5, 7, 8 Mediterranean and NE. tropical Africa, through Arabia and the Middle East to Pakistan; South Africa; isolated records from Niger, Zambia and Angola; also, probably introduced, in Australia and central America
Altitude range
600–2600 m.
Distribution
KENYA Northern Frontier Province Mt. Kulal, 9 Oct. 1947, Bally 5538a !KENYA Nakuru District Soysambu Estate, 30 July 1947, Bogdan 933!KENYA Masai District Ngong, 15 Jan. 1945, van Someren 9547!TANZANIA Musoma District Klein’s Camp, 6 Apr. 1961, Greenway & Turner 9999!TANZANIA Masai District W. side of Ngorongoro Crater floor, Engitai Hill, 24 July 1966, Greenway & Kanuri 12608!TANZANIA Lushoto District Mombo-Soni road, 24 June 1953, Drummond & Hemsley 3002!UGANDA Karamoja District Napak [Kamalinga], 22 Dec. 1938, D.R. Brown 21! & July 1930, Liebenberg 1748!
Notes
A widespread and variable species, which intergrades with a number of others. It is recognized by the scanty panicle of white villous racemes which never deflex; by the many-awned racemes with 0–1 homogamous pairs at the base of the upper (specimens bordering on H. anamesa are often difficult to assign with certainty); and by the harsh narrow leaves forming a basal tussock.
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