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Pogonarthria refracta Launert [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 2, (1999) Author: T. Cope
Names
Pogonarthria refracta Launert [family GRAMINEAE], in Senckenberg. Biol. 47: 304 (1966). —Simon in Kirkia 8: 62 (1971). TAB. 43. Type: Zambia, Namwala, 17.ii.1962, B.L. Mitchell 13/9 (BM, holotype; FR; K; SRGH).
Information
Caespitose annual; culms up to 35 cm tall, erect or geniculately ascending, branched from the lower nodes; leaf laminas (1.5)3–15(20) cm × 1.5–2.5 mm, flat or somewhat involute, tapering to a fine point.Inflorescence 4–12 cm long (or more); racemes 0.8–1.5 cm long, spreading or more often ± reclined.Spikelets 4–6 mm long, 3–5-flowered, narrowly elliptic; rhachilla internodes thickened, shortly clavate (except the uppermost), stiffly pilose towards the apex, rarely glabrous; glumes ovate-lanceolate or triangular-lanceolate, the inferior 1.5–1.7 mm long, the superior 2.1–2.4 mm long; lemmas c. 2.8 mm long, ovate-lanceolate to ovate-triangular, acute.
Habitat
On Kalahari Sands, usually in woodland, and in disturbed ground
Range
Endemic to Namwala area
Altitude range
c. 1000 m. 1000 1000
Distribution
Zambia S Namwala, 168 km NNW of Choma, c. 1000 m, 9.i.1957, E.A. Robinson 2095 (K).
Pogonarthria refracta Launert [family GRAMINEAE]
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