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Schmidtia pappophoroides Steud. ex J. A. Schmidt [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
Schmidtia quinqueseta Benth. ex Ficalho & Hiern [family GRAMINEAE], in Trans. Linn. Soc., Bot., Sér. 2, 2: 31 (1881). Type from Angola.
Antoschmidtia quinqueseta Benth. Boiss. [family GRAMINEAE], Fl. Orient. 5: 559 (1884). Type as above.
Schmidtia bulbosa Stapf [family GRAMINEAE], in Harv. & Sond., F.C. 7: 658 (1900). — R.E. Fr., Wiss. Ergebn. Schwed. Rhod.-Kong.-Exped. 1: 210 (1916). — C. E. Hubbard in Mem. N. Y. Bot. Gard. 9, 1: 104 (1954). — Sturgeon in Rhod. Agric. Journ. 51: 226 (1954). — Chippindall in Meredith, Grasses & Pastures of S. Afr.: 232 (1955). — Jackson & Wiehe, Annot. Check List Nyasal. Grass.: 58 (1958). — Harker & Napper, Ill. Guide Grass. Uganda: 52 (1960). — Napper, Grass. Tangan.: 21 (1965). Syntypes from S. Africa.
Schmidtia glabra Pilg. [family GRAMINEAE], in Engl., Bot. Jahrb. 43: 386 (1909). Type from S. Africa.
Antoschmidtia bulbosa Stapf Peter [family GRAMINEAE], in Fedde, Report. Beih. 40: 307 (1931). non Bremek. & Oberm. (1935). Type as for Schmidtia bulbosa.
Schmidtia pappophoroides Steud. ex J. A. Schmidt [family GRAMINEAE], Beitr. Fl. Cap. Verd. Ins.: 145 (1852); Syn. Pl. Glum. 1: 199 (1854). — C. E. Hubb. in F.W.T.A. 2: 510 (1936). — F. W. Andr., Fl. Pl. Sudan, 3: 529 (1956). — Bogdan, Rev. List Kenya Grass.: 16 (1958). — Launert in Bol. Soc. Brot., Sér .2, 39: 308 (1965); in Merxm., Prodr. Fl. SW. Afr. 160: 169 (1970). — W. D. Clayton, F.T.E.A., Gramineae: 165 (1970). TAB. 40. Type from the Cape Verde Is.
Information
Perennial, with a short creeping rhizome, often with long surface stolons. Culms up to 100 cm. tall (usually much less!), 3- to many-noded, erect or geniculately ascending, almost always bulbous-like thickened at the base, simple or more often branched from the lower nodes, often with crowded intra-vaginal innovation-shoots and then suffrutescent in appearance, sometimes woody, finely striate, pubescent or sometimes glabrous, often somewhat viscous with gland-tipped hairs; the lower internodes usually short, the uppermost long exserted and slender. Leaf-sheaths tight when young, later loose and slipping off the culm; the lowermost scale-like, subcoriaceous, densely packed and often sericeous or villous. Leaf-laminae 5-16 x 0.2-0.7 (rarely more) cm., linear or linear-lanceolate, tapering to a setaceous point, sometimes somewhat curling towards the apex, involute or flat, glaucous, pubescent on both surfaces and sometimes slightly viscous with gland-tipped hairs. Panicle 6-12 x 2-4.5 cm., loose to somewhat contracted, ovate, elliptic, elliptic-oblong in outline, erect or rarely drooping; branches spreading to ascending, sometimes appressed to the rhachis; rhachis, branches and pedicels scabrous and often hairy. Spikelets up to 1.5 cm. long, pedicelled to subsessile, obovate to obovate-oblong in lateral view, sericeous to villous. Glumes light grey-green or dull green, acute to subobtuse, glabrous or finely pubescent, rarely with a few gland-tipped hairs, smooth or asperulous; the inferior (4.6)5-7.5(10.5) mm. long, (7)9-11(13)-nerved; the superior (6)6.5-9 (rarely -11.5) mm. long, (8) 9-11 (rarely -14)-nerved, always slightly shorter than the spikelet. Lowest lemma (8.5)9.5-14(-18) mm. long; awns (4.5) 5.75-8(13) mm. long. Palea 4.25-5.75 mm. long, usually with a few gland-tipped hairs along the keels towards the apex or sometimes without glands. Anthers (2)2.5-3.5(4) mm. long. Caryopsis c. 1.5 mm. long, yellowish-brown.
Habitat
In sandveld, woodland, open canopy woodland, on stony hillsides or sloping river banks, sometimes on lake-shore fringes, roadsides and around abandoned habitations, usually growing on sandy soil, also between granite and basalt rocks in shallow soil, often forming pure associations but usually in small tussocks
Distribution
Zimbabwe N Mtoko, N. Mtoko Reserve, 8.i.1958, Cleghorn 334 (BM; SRGH).Zambia B Senanga, Mashi R. bank near SW. corner, 1.xi.1964, Verboom 1506 (SRGH).Botswana N Francistown, 1040 m., 7.iii.1961, Vesey-FitzGerald 3114 (BM; SRGH).Mozambique M Magude, near Moine, 16.ii.1953, Myre & Balsinhas 1508 (K).Mozambique GI Caniçado, between Caniçado and Nalázi, 15.v.1948, Torre 7818 (LISC).Mozambique MS Chemba, Chiou, Experimental Station of C.I.C.A., 18.iv.1960, Lemos & Macuácua 119 (BM; COI; K; LISC; SRGH).Zimbabwe S Beitbridge, Chiturupazi, 25.ii.1961, Wild 5425 (BM; SRGH).Zimbabwe E Chipinga, 379 m., 19.i.1957, Phipps 14 (LISC; SRGH).Zimbabwe C Hartley, Poole Farm, 25.i.1944, Hornby 2353 (K; SRGH).Zimbabwe W Nyamandhlovu, Capt. Bury’s farm, 24.ii.1932, Rattray 488 (BM; K; SRGH).Zambia S Mazabuka, 6?4 km. from Chirundu Bridge on Lusaka road, 6.ii.1958, Drummond 5490 (K; LISC; SRGH).Botswana SE Morale Pasture Station, Mahalapye, 980 m., iii.1957, de Beer 81854 (K; LISC; SRGH).Botswana SW c. 11?2 km. SW. of Kang on road to Murumush, 17.ii.1960, de Winter 7345 (K; SRGH).Mozambique T Tete, near the Campo de Aviação, c. 130 m., 12.iii.1964, Torre & Paiva 11180 (COI; LISC).Malawi S Port Herald, between Thangadzi and Lilanje R., c. 90 m., 25.iii.1960, Phipps 2705 (BM; K; SRGH).
Distribution (external)
Mauritania
Cape Verde Islands
Socotra
West Africa
Sudan
Republic
Angola
Uganda
Tanzania
Kenya
Somalia
Ethiopia
south-western Africa
South Africa
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
Schmidtia quinqueseta Benth. ex Ficalho & Hiern [family GRAMINEAE], in Trans. Linn. Soc., Bot., Sér. 2, 2: 31 (1881). Type from Angola.
Antoschmidtia quinqueseta Benth. Boiss. [family GRAMINEAE], Fl. Orient. 5: 559 (1884). Type as above.
Schmidtia bulbosa Stapf [family GRAMINEAE], in Harv. & Sond., F.C. 7: 658 (1900). — R.E. Fr., Wiss. Ergebn. Schwed. Rhod.-Kong.-Exped. 1: 210 (1916). — C. E. Hubbard in Mem. N. Y. Bot. Gard. 9, 1: 104 (1954). — Sturgeon in Rhod. Agric. Journ. 51: 226 (1954). — Chippindall in Meredith, Grasses & Pastures of S. Afr.: 232 (1955). — Jackson & Wiehe, Annot. Check List Nyasal. Grass.: 58 (1958). — Harker & Napper, Ill. Guide Grass. Uganda: 52 (1960). — Napper, Grass. Tangan.: 21 (1965). Syntypes from S. Africa.
Schmidtia glabra Pilg. [family GRAMINEAE], in Engl., Bot. Jahrb. 43: 386 (1909). Type from S. Africa.
Antoschmidtia bulbosa Stapf Peter [family GRAMINEAE], in Fedde, Report. Beih. 40: 307 (1931). non Bremek. & Oberm. (1935). Type as for Schmidtia bulbosa.
Schmidtia pappophoroides Steud. ex J. A. Schmidt [family GRAMINEAE], Beitr. Fl. Cap. Verd. Ins.: 145 (1852); Syn. Pl. Glum. 1: 199 (1854). — C. E. Hubb. in F.W.T.A. 2: 510 (1936). — F. W. Andr., Fl. Pl. Sudan, 3: 529 (1956). — Bogdan, Rev. List Kenya Grass.: 16 (1958). — Launert in Bol. Soc. Brot., Sér .2, 39: 308 (1965); in Merxm., Prodr. Fl. SW. Afr. 160: 169 (1970). — W. D. Clayton, F.T.E.A., Gramineae: 165 (1970). TAB. 40. Type from the Cape Verde Is.
Information
Perennial, with a short creeping rhizome, often with long surface stolons. Culms up to 100 cm. tall (usually much less!), 3- to many-noded, erect or geniculately ascending, almost always bulbous-like thickened at the base, simple or more often branched from the lower nodes, often with crowded intra-vaginal innovation-shoots and then suffrutescent in appearance, sometimes woody, finely striate, pubescent or sometimes glabrous, often somewhat viscous with gland-tipped hairs; the lower internodes usually short, the uppermost long exserted and slender. Leaf-sheaths tight when young, later loose and slipping off the culm; the lowermost scale-like, subcoriaceous, densely packed and often sericeous or villous. Leaf-laminae 5-16 x 0.2-0.7 (rarely more) cm., linear or linear-lanceolate, tapering to a setaceous point, sometimes somewhat curling towards the apex, involute or flat, glaucous, pubescent on both surfaces and sometimes slightly viscous with gland-tipped hairs. Panicle 6-12 x 2-4.5 cm., loose to somewhat contracted, ovate, elliptic, elliptic-oblong in outline, erect or rarely drooping; branches spreading to ascending, sometimes appressed to the rhachis; rhachis, branches and pedicels scabrous and often hairy. Spikelets up to 1.5 cm. long, pedicelled to subsessile, obovate to obovate-oblong in lateral view, sericeous to villous. Glumes light grey-green or dull green, acute to subobtuse, glabrous or finely pubescent, rarely with a few gland-tipped hairs, smooth or asperulous; the inferior (4.6)5-7.5(10.5) mm. long, (7)9-11(13)-nerved; the superior (6)6.5-9 (rarely -11.5) mm. long, (8) 9-11 (rarely -14)-nerved, always slightly shorter than the spikelet. Lowest lemma (8.5)9.5-14(-18) mm. long; awns (4.5) 5.75-8(13) mm. long. Palea 4.25-5.75 mm. long, usually with a few gland-tipped hairs along the keels towards the apex or sometimes without glands. Anthers (2)2.5-3.5(4) mm. long. Caryopsis c. 1.5 mm. long, yellowish-brown.
Habitat
In sandveld, woodland, open canopy woodland, on stony hillsides or sloping river banks, sometimes on lake-shore fringes, roadsides and around abandoned habitations, usually growing on sandy soil, also between granite and basalt rocks in shallow soil, often forming pure associations but usually in small tussocks
Distribution
Zimbabwe N Mtoko, N. Mtoko Reserve, 8.i.1958, Cleghorn 334 (BM; SRGH).Zambia B Senanga, Mashi R. bank near SW. corner, 1.xi.1964, Verboom 1506 (SRGH).Botswana N Francistown, 1040 m., 7.iii.1961, Vesey-FitzGerald 3114 (BM; SRGH).Mozambique M Magude, near Moine, 16.ii.1953, Myre & Balsinhas 1508 (K).Mozambique GI Caniçado, between Caniçado and Nalázi, 15.v.1948, Torre 7818 (LISC).Mozambique MS Chemba, Chiou, Experimental Station of C.I.C.A., 18.iv.1960, Lemos & Macuácua 119 (BM; COI; K; LISC; SRGH).Zimbabwe S Beitbridge, Chiturupazi, 25.ii.1961, Wild 5425 (BM; SRGH).Zimbabwe E Chipinga, 379 m., 19.i.1957, Phipps 14 (LISC; SRGH).Zimbabwe C Hartley, Poole Farm, 25.i.1944, Hornby 2353 (K; SRGH).Zimbabwe W Nyamandhlovu, Capt. Bury’s farm, 24.ii.1932, Rattray 488 (BM; K; SRGH).Zambia S Mazabuka, 6?4 km. from Chirundu Bridge on Lusaka road, 6.ii.1958, Drummond 5490 (K; LISC; SRGH).Botswana SE Morale Pasture Station, Mahalapye, 980 m., iii.1957, de Beer 81854 (K; LISC; SRGH).Botswana SW c. 11?2 km. SW. of Kang on road to Murumush, 17.ii.1960, de Winter 7345 (K; SRGH).Mozambique T Tete, near the Campo de Aviação, c. 130 m., 12.iii.1964, Torre & Paiva 11180 (COI; LISC).Malawi S Port Herald, between Thangadzi and Lilanje R., c. 90 m., 25.iii.1960, Phipps 2705 (BM; K; SRGH).
Distribution (external)
Mauritania
Cape Verde Islands
Socotra
West Africa
Sudan
Republic
Angola
Uganda
Tanzania
Kenya
Somalia
Ethiopia
south-western Africa
South Africa
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
Schmidtia quinqueseta Benth. ex Ficalho & Hiern [family GRAMINEAE], in Trans. Linn. Soc., Bot., Sér. 2, 2: 31 (1881). Type from Angola.
Antoschmidtia quinqueseta Benth. Boiss. [family GRAMINEAE], Fl. Orient. 5: 559 (1884). Type as above.
Schmidtia bulbosa Stapf [family GRAMINEAE], in Harv. & Sond., F.C. 7: 658 (1900). — R.E. Fr., Wiss. Ergebn. Schwed. Rhod.-Kong.-Exped. 1: 210 (1916). — C. E. Hubbard in Mem. N. Y. Bot. Gard. 9, 1: 104 (1954). — Sturgeon in Rhod. Agric. Journ. 51: 226 (1954). — Chippindall in Meredith, Grasses & Pastures of S. Afr.: 232 (1955). — Jackson & Wiehe, Annot. Check List Nyasal. Grass.: 58 (1958). — Harker & Napper, Ill. Guide Grass. Uganda: 52 (1960). — Napper, Grass. Tangan.: 21 (1965). Syntypes from S. Africa.
Schmidtia glabra Pilg. [family GRAMINEAE], in Engl., Bot. Jahrb. 43: 386 (1909). Type from S. Africa.
Antoschmidtia bulbosa Stapf Peter [family GRAMINEAE], in Fedde, Report. Beih. 40: 307 (1931). non Bremek. & Oberm. (1935). Type as for Schmidtia bulbosa.
Schmidtia pappophoroides Steud. ex J. A. Schmidt [family GRAMINEAE], Beitr. Fl. Cap. Verd. Ins.: 145 (1852); Syn. Pl. Glum. 1: 199 (1854). — C. E. Hubb. in F.W.T.A. 2: 510 (1936). — F. W. Andr., Fl. Pl. Sudan, 3: 529 (1956). — Bogdan, Rev. List Kenya Grass.: 16 (1958). — Launert in Bol. Soc. Brot., Sér .2, 39: 308 (1965); in Merxm., Prodr. Fl. SW. Afr. 160: 169 (1970). — W. D. Clayton, F.T.E.A., Gramineae: 165 (1970). TAB. 40. Type from the Cape Verde Is.
Information
Perennial, with a short creeping rhizome, often with long surface stolons. Culms up to 100 cm. tall (usually much less!), 3- to many-noded, erect or geniculately ascending, almost always bulbous-like thickened at the base, simple or more often branched from the lower nodes, often with crowded intra-vaginal innovation-shoots and then suffrutescent in appearance, sometimes woody, finely striate, pubescent or sometimes glabrous, often somewhat viscous with gland-tipped hairs; the lower internodes usually short, the uppermost long exserted and slender. Leaf-sheaths tight when young, later loose and slipping off the culm; the lowermost scale-like, subcoriaceous, densely packed and often sericeous or villous. Leaf-laminae 5-16 x 0.2-0.7 (rarely more) cm., linear or linear-lanceolate, tapering to a setaceous point, sometimes somewhat curling towards the apex, involute or flat, glaucous, pubescent on both surfaces and sometimes slightly viscous with gland-tipped hairs. Panicle 6-12 x 2-4.5 cm., loose to somewhat contracted, ovate, elliptic, elliptic-oblong in outline, erect or rarely drooping; branches spreading to ascending, sometimes appressed to the rhachis; rhachis, branches and pedicels scabrous and often hairy. Spikelets up to 1.5 cm. long, pedicelled to subsessile, obovate to obovate-oblong in lateral view, sericeous to villous. Glumes light grey-green or dull green, acute to subobtuse, glabrous or finely pubescent, rarely with a few gland-tipped hairs, smooth or asperulous; the inferior (4.6)5-7.5(10.5) mm. long, (7)9-11(13)-nerved; the superior (6)6.5-9 (rarely -11.5) mm. long, (8) 9-11 (rarely -14)-nerved, always slightly shorter than the spikelet. Lowest lemma (8.5)9.5-14(-18) mm. long; awns (4.5) 5.75-8(13) mm. long. Palea 4.25-5.75 mm. long, usually with a few gland-tipped hairs along the keels towards the apex or sometimes without glands. Anthers (2)2.5-3.5(4) mm. long. Caryopsis c. 1.5 mm. long, yellowish-brown.
Habitat
In sandveld, woodland, open canopy woodland, on stony hillsides or sloping river banks, sometimes on lake-shore fringes, roadsides and around abandoned habitations, usually growing on sandy soil, also between granite and basalt rocks in shallow soil, often forming pure associations but usually in small tussocks
Distribution
Zimbabwe N Mtoko, N. Mtoko Reserve, 8.i.1958, Cleghorn 334 (BM; SRGH).Zambia B Senanga, Mashi R. bank near SW. corner, 1.xi.1964, Verboom 1506 (SRGH).Botswana N Francistown, 1040 m., 7.iii.1961, Vesey-FitzGerald 3114 (BM; SRGH).Mozambique M Magude, near Moine, 16.ii.1953, Myre & Balsinhas 1508 (K).Mozambique GI Caniçado, between Caniçado and Nalázi, 15.v.1948, Torre 7818 (LISC).Mozambique MS Chemba, Chiou, Experimental Station of C.I.C.A., 18.iv.1960, Lemos & Macuácua 119 (BM; COI; K; LISC; SRGH).Zimbabwe S Beitbridge, Chiturupazi, 25.ii.1961, Wild 5425 (BM; SRGH).Zimbabwe E Chipinga, 379 m., 19.i.1957, Phipps 14 (LISC; SRGH).Zimbabwe C Hartley, Poole Farm, 25.i.1944, Hornby 2353 (K; SRGH).Zimbabwe W Nyamandhlovu, Capt. Bury’s farm, 24.ii.1932, Rattray 488 (BM; K; SRGH).Zambia S Mazabuka, 6?4 km. from Chirundu Bridge on Lusaka road, 6.ii.1958, Drummond 5490 (K; LISC; SRGH).Botswana SE Morale Pasture Station, Mahalapye, 980 m., iii.1957, de Beer 81854 (K; LISC; SRGH).Botswana SW c. 11?2 km. SW. of Kang on road to Murumush, 17.ii.1960, de Winter 7345 (K; SRGH).Mozambique T Tete, near the Campo de Aviação, c. 130 m., 12.iii.1964, Torre & Paiva 11180 (COI; LISC).Malawi S Port Herald, between Thangadzi and Lilanje R., c. 90 m., 25.iii.1960, Phipps 2705 (BM; K; SRGH).
Distribution (external)
Mauritania
Cape Verde Islands
Socotra
West Africa
Sudan
Republic
Angola
Uganda
Tanzania
Kenya
Somalia
Ethiopia
south-western Africa
South Africa
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