< Back to the Object

Edit History
Aristida diffusa Trin. [family GRAMINEAE]

Date Updated: 26 July 2007

Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Zambesiaca
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
FZ, Vol 10, Part 1, (1971) Author: E. Launert
Names
Aristida diffusa var. eckloniana Trin. & Rupr. Henrard [family GRAMINEAE], tom. cit.: 667 (1928); Monogr. Aristida 1, tom. cit.: 97, t. 29 (1929). Type as for Aristida vestita var. eckloniana. Aristida diffusa Trin. [family GRAMINEAE], in Mém. Acad. Imp. Sci. Petersb., Sér 6, 1: 86 (1830). — Kunth, Enum. Pl. 1: 193 (1833). — Henrard, Crit. Rev. Aristida 1 in Meded. Rijks-Herb. 54: 142 (1926); Monogr. Aristida 1 in Meded. Rijks-Herb. 58: 96, t. 28 (1929). — de Winter in Bothalia, 8: 275, fig. 53, 54, 55, 159/18 (1965). Type from S. Africa (Cape). Aristida hystrix Thunb. [family GRAMINEAE], Prodr. Pl. Cap. 1: 19 (1794) non L.f. (1781); Fl. Cap. 1: 394 (1813). — Henrard, Crit. Rev. Aristida 2 in Meded. Rijks-Herb. 54a: 252 (1927). Type from S. Africa (Cape). Aristida vestita var. diffusa Trin. Trin. & Rupr. [family GRAMINEAE], Sp. Gram Stip.: 157 (1842). Type as for Aristida diffusa. Aristida vestita var. brevistipitata Trin. & Rupr. [family GRAMINEAE], tom. cit.: 158 (1842), “brevistipitata”. — Henrard, Crit. Rev. Aristida 3 in Meded. Rijks-Herb. 54b: 665 (1928). Type from S. Africa (Cape). Aristida vestita var. eckloniana Trin. & Rupr. [family GRAMINEAE], loc. cit. — Henrard, tom. cit.: 667 (1928). Type from S. Africa (Cape). Aristida vestita var. schraderana Trin. & Rupr. [family GRAMINEAE], loc. cit. (“schraderiana”). — Henrard, tom. cit.: 668 (1928). Type from S. Africa (Cape). Aristida vestita var. pseudohystrix Trin. & Rupr. [family GRAMINEAE], loc. cit. Type from S. Africa (Cape). Aristida pseudohystrix Trin. & Rupr. Steud. [family GRAMINEAE], Syn. Pl. Glum.: 142 (1854). — Henrard, Crit. Rev. Aristida 3 in Meded. Rijks-Herb. 54b: 470 (1928). Type as for Aristida vestita var. pseudohystrix. Aristida diffusa var. brevistipitata Trin. & Rupr. Henrard [family GRAMINEAE], Crit. Rev. Aristida 3 in tom. cit.: 665 (1928). Type as for Aristida vestita var. brevistipitata. Aristida diffusa var. densa Trin. & Rupr. Henrard [family GRAMINEAE], loc. cit.; Monogr. Aristida 1 in Meded. Rijks-Herb. 58: 97 (1929). Type as for Aristida vestita var. densa. Aristida diffusa var. pseudohystrix Trin. & Rupr. Henrard [family GRAMINEAE], Crit. Rev. Aristida 3, tom. cit.: 471 (1928); Monogr. Aristida 1, loc. cit. — Schweickerdt in Bothalia, 4: 169 (1941). Type as for Aristida vestita var. pseudohystrix. Aristida diffusa var. schraderana Trin. & Rupr. Henrard [family GRAMINEAE], Crit. Rev. Aristida 3, tom. cit.: 668 (1928); Monogr. Aristida 1, loc. cit. Type as for Aristida vestita var. schraderana. Aristida diffusa var. genuina Henrard [family GRAMINEAE], Monogr. Aristida 1, loc. cit. — Schweickerdt in Bothalia, 4: 166 (1941). Type as for Aristida diffusa. Aristida vestita var. densa Trin. & Rupr. [family GRAMINEAE], loc. cit. — Henrard, Crit. Rev. Aristida 3, loc. cit. Type from S. Africa (Cape).
Information
Perennial, up to 75 cm. high, densely to laxly caespitose. Culms erect, slender, simple or rarely branched, glabrous, 1- to several-noded; nodes glabrous. Leaf-sheaths firm, glabrous, or the lower densely woolly. Ligule a short-ciliate rim; auricles pubescent or glabrous; collar glabrous. Leaf-laminae up to 30 x 0·25-3 cm., involute, setaceous, curved or flexuous, the upper exceeding the panicle, scaberulous or hispidulous above, smooth beneath. Panicle up to 30 cm. long, or longer, lax, open, with a smooth axis; branches c. 15 cm. long, 2- or 3-nate, filiform or capillary, more or less spreading, remote, flexuous, scaberulous or smooth. Spikelets yellowish, yellowish-brown to purple, purplish-brown, suberect to nodding. Glumes unequal, rather firm, 1-nerved, glabrous, obtuse or slightly emarginate with a glabrous keel; the inferior 4-9 mm. long, fairly broad, obtuse; the superior 10-17 mm. long, narrow, with a subacute but slightly 2-fid apex. Lemma 9-13 mm. long, smooth, or slightly scaberulous towards the apex; callus c. 1 mm. long, 2-fid, barbate; column 2-6 mm. long, slightly twisted; awns fine, subequal, scabrous, the central awn up to 23-25 mm. long, the later ones 20-30 mm. long; articulation between the apex of the lemma and the base of the column.

Date Updated: 26 July 2007

Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Zambesiaca
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
FZ, Vol 10, Part 1, (1971) Author: E. Launert
Names
Aristida diffusa var. eckloniana Trin. & Rupr. Henrard [family GRAMINEAE], tom. cit.: 667 (1928); Monogr. Aristida 1, tom. cit.: 97, t. 29 (1929). Type as for Aristida vestita var. eckloniana. Aristida diffusa Trin. [family GRAMINEAE], in Mém. Acad. Imp. Sci. Petersb., Sér 6, 1: 86 (1830). — Kunth, Enum. Pl. 1: 193 (1833). — Henrard, Crit. Rev. Aristida 1 in Meded. Rijks-Herb. 54: 142 (1926); Monogr. Aristida 1 in Meded. Rijks-Herb. 58: 96, t. 28 (1929). — de Winter in Bothalia, 8: 275, fig. 53, 54, 55, 159/18 (1965). Type from S. Africa (Cape). Aristida hystrix Thunb. [family GRAMINEAE], Prodr. Pl. Cap. 1: 19 (1794) non L.f. (1781); Fl. Cap. 1: 394 (1813). — Henrard, Crit. Rev. Aristida 2 in Meded. Rijks-Herb. 54a: 252 (1927). Type from S. Africa (Cape). Aristida vestita var. diffusa Trin. Trin. & Rupr. [family GRAMINEAE], Sp. Gram Stip.: 157 (1842). Type as for Aristida diffusa. Aristida vestita var. brevistipitata Trin. & Rupr. [family GRAMINEAE], tom. cit.: 158 (1842), “brevistipitata”. — Henrard, Crit. Rev. Aristida 3 in Meded. Rijks-Herb. 54b: 665 (1928). Type from S. Africa (Cape). Aristida vestita var. eckloniana Trin. & Rupr. [family GRAMINEAE], loc. cit. — Henrard, tom. cit.: 667 (1928). Type from S. Africa (Cape). Aristida vestita var. schraderana Trin. & Rupr. [family GRAMINEAE], loc. cit. (“schraderiana”). — Henrard, tom. cit.: 668 (1928). Type from S. Africa (Cape). Aristida vestita var. pseudohystrix Trin. & Rupr. [family GRAMINEAE], loc. cit. Type from S. Africa (Cape). Aristida pseudohystrix Trin. & Rupr. Steud. [family GRAMINEAE], Syn. Pl. Glum.: 142 (1854). — Henrard, Crit. Rev. Aristida 3 in Meded. Rijks-Herb. 54b: 470 (1928). Type as for Aristida vestita var. pseudohystrix. Aristida diffusa var. brevistipitata Trin. & Rupr. Henrard [family GRAMINEAE], Crit. Rev. Aristida 3 in tom. cit.: 665 (1928). Type as for Aristida vestita var. brevistipitata. Aristida diffusa var. densa Trin. & Rupr. Henrard [family GRAMINEAE], loc. cit.; Monogr. Aristida 1 in Meded. Rijks-Herb. 58: 97 (1929). Type as for Aristida vestita var. densa. Aristida diffusa var. pseudohystrix Trin. & Rupr. Henrard [family GRAMINEAE], Crit. Rev. Aristida 3, tom. cit.: 471 (1928); Monogr. Aristida 1, loc. cit. — Schweickerdt in Bothalia, 4: 169 (1941). Type as for Aristida vestita var. pseudohystrix. Aristida diffusa var. schraderana Trin. & Rupr. Henrard [family GRAMINEAE], Crit. Rev. Aristida 3, tom. cit.: 668 (1928); Monogr. Aristida 1, loc. cit. Type as for Aristida vestita var. schraderana. Aristida diffusa var. genuina Henrard [family GRAMINEAE], Monogr. Aristida 1, loc. cit. — Schweickerdt in Bothalia, 4: 166 (1941). Type as for Aristida diffusa. Aristida vestita var. densa Trin. & Rupr. [family GRAMINEAE], loc. cit. — Henrard, Crit. Rev. Aristida 3, loc. cit. Type from S. Africa (Cape).
Information
Perennial, up to 75 cm. high, densely to laxly caespitose. Culms erect, slender, simple or rarely branched, glabrous, 1- to several-noded; nodes glabrous. Leaf-sheaths firm, glabrous, or the lower densely woolly. Ligule a short-ciliate rim; auricles pubescent or glabrous; collar glabrous. Leaf-laminae up to 30 x 0·25-3 cm., involute, setaceous, curved or flexuous, the upper exceeding the panicle, scaberulous or hispidulous above, smooth beneath. Panicle up to 30 cm. long, or longer, lax, open, with a smooth axis; branches c. 15 cm. long, 2- or 3-nate, filiform or capillary, more or less spreading, remote, flexuous, scaberulous or smooth. Spikelets yellowish, yellowish-brown to purple, purplish-brown, suberect to nodding. Glumes unequal, rather firm, 1-nerved, glabrous, obtuse or slightly emarginate with a glabrous keel; the inferior 4-9 mm. long, fairly broad, obtuse; the superior 10-17 mm. long, narrow, with a subacute but slightly 2-fid apex. Lemma 9-13 mm. long, smooth, or slightly scaberulous towards the apex; callus c. 1 mm. long, 2-fid, barbate; column 2-6 mm. long, slightly twisted; awns fine, subequal, scabrous, the central awn up to 23-25 mm. long, the later ones 20-30 mm. long; articulation between the apex of the lemma and the base of the column.

Date Updated: 26 July 2007

Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Zambesiaca
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
FZ, Vol 10, Part 1, (1971) Author: E. Launert
Names
Aristida diffusa var. eckloniana Trin. & Rupr. Henrard [family GRAMINEAE], tom. cit.: 667 (1928); Monogr. Aristida 1, tom. cit.: 97, t. 29 (1929). Type as for Aristida vestita var. eckloniana. Aristida diffusa Trin. [family GRAMINEAE], in Mém. Acad. Imp. Sci. Petersb., Sér 6, 1: 86 (1830). — Kunth, Enum. Pl. 1: 193 (1833). — Henrard, Crit. Rev. Aristida 1 in Meded. Rijks-Herb. 54: 142 (1926); Monogr. Aristida 1 in Meded. Rijks-Herb. 58: 96, t. 28 (1929). — de Winter in Bothalia, 8: 275, fig. 53, 54, 55, 159/18 (1965). Type from S. Africa (Cape). Aristida hystrix Thunb. [family GRAMINEAE], Prodr. Pl. Cap. 1: 19 (1794) non L.f. (1781); Fl. Cap. 1: 394 (1813). — Henrard, Crit. Rev. Aristida 2 in Meded. Rijks-Herb. 54a: 252 (1927). Type from S. Africa (Cape). Aristida vestita var. diffusa Trin. Trin. & Rupr. [family GRAMINEAE], Sp. Gram Stip.: 157 (1842). Type as for Aristida diffusa. Aristida vestita var. brevistipitata Trin. & Rupr. [family GRAMINEAE], tom. cit.: 158 (1842), “brevistipitata”. — Henrard, Crit. Rev. Aristida 3 in Meded. Rijks-Herb. 54b: 665 (1928). Type from S. Africa (Cape). Aristida vestita var. eckloniana Trin. & Rupr. [family GRAMINEAE], loc. cit. — Henrard, tom. cit.: 667 (1928). Type from S. Africa (Cape). Aristida vestita var. schraderana Trin. & Rupr. [family GRAMINEAE], loc. cit. (“schraderiana”). — Henrard, tom. cit.: 668 (1928). Type from S. Africa (Cape). Aristida vestita var. pseudohystrix Trin. & Rupr. [family GRAMINEAE], loc. cit. Type from S. Africa (Cape). Aristida pseudohystrix Trin. & Rupr. Steud. [family GRAMINEAE], Syn. Pl. Glum.: 142 (1854). — Henrard, Crit. Rev. Aristida 3 in Meded. Rijks-Herb. 54b: 470 (1928). Type as for Aristida vestita var. pseudohystrix. Aristida diffusa var. brevistipitata Trin. & Rupr. Henrard [family GRAMINEAE], Crit. Rev. Aristida 3 in tom. cit.: 665 (1928). Type as for Aristida vestita var. brevistipitata. Aristida diffusa var. densa Trin. & Rupr. Henrard [family GRAMINEAE], loc. cit.; Monogr. Aristida 1 in Meded. Rijks-Herb. 58: 97 (1929). Type as for Aristida vestita var. densa. Aristida diffusa var. pseudohystrix Trin. & Rupr. Henrard [family GRAMINEAE], Crit. Rev. Aristida 3, tom. cit.: 471 (1928); Monogr. Aristida 1, loc. cit. — Schweickerdt in Bothalia, 4: 169 (1941). Type as for Aristida vestita var. pseudohystrix. Aristida diffusa var. schraderana Trin. & Rupr. Henrard [family GRAMINEAE], Crit. Rev. Aristida 3, tom. cit.: 668 (1928); Monogr. Aristida 1, loc. cit. Type as for Aristida vestita var. schraderana. Aristida diffusa var. genuina Henrard [family GRAMINEAE], Monogr. Aristida 1, loc. cit. — Schweickerdt in Bothalia, 4: 166 (1941). Type as for Aristida diffusa. Aristida vestita var. densa Trin. & Rupr. [family GRAMINEAE], loc. cit. — Henrard, Crit. Rev. Aristida 3, loc. cit. Type from S. Africa (Cape).
Information
Perennial, up to 75 cm. high, densely to laxly caespitose. Culms erect, slender, simple or rarely branched, glabrous, 1- to several-noded; nodes glabrous. Leaf-sheaths firm, glabrous, or the lower densely woolly. Ligule a short-ciliate rim; auricles pubescent or glabrous; collar glabrous. Leaf-laminae up to 30 x 0·25-3 cm., involute, setaceous, curved or flexuous, the upper exceeding the panicle, scaberulous or hispidulous above, smooth beneath. Panicle up to 30 cm. long, or longer, lax, open, with a smooth axis; branches c. 15 cm. long, 2- or 3-nate, filiform or capillary, more or less spreading, remote, flexuous, scaberulous or smooth. Spikelets yellowish, yellowish-brown to purple, purplish-brown, suberect to nodding. Glumes unequal, rather firm, 1-nerved, glabrous, obtuse or slightly emarginate with a glabrous keel; the inferior 4-9 mm. long, fairly broad, obtuse; the superior 10-17 mm. long, narrow, with a subacute but slightly 2-fid apex. Lemma 9-13 mm. long, smooth, or slightly scaberulous towards the apex; callus c. 1 mm. long, 2-fid, barbate; column 2-6 mm. long, slightly twisted; awns fine, subequal, scabrous, the central awn up to 23-25 mm. long, the later ones 20-30 mm. long; articulation between the apex of the lemma and the base of the column.
Aristida diffusa Trin. [family GRAMINEAE]
PDF

Related Materials