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Sclerodactylon macrostachyum Benth. A. Camus [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
Sclerodactylon macrostachyum Benth. A. Camus [family GRAMINEAE], in Bull. Soc. Bot. France 79: 38 (1932). TAB. 48. Type from Madagascar.
Eleusine macrostachya Benth. [family GRAMINEAE], in J. Linn. Soc., Bot. 19: 107 (1881).
Sclerodactylon juncifolium Stapf [family GRAMINEAE], in Bull. Misc. Inform., Kew 1911: 318 (1911). Type from Madagascar.
Information
Densely caespitose glaucous perennial, sometimes with creeping stolons; culms up to 50 cm tall, erect and straight, simple or rarely fasciculately branched from the lower nodes, the leaves all basal; leaf laminas 20–40 cm × up to 2.5 mm, subulate, cylindrical or ± compressed and elliptic in section, glabrous, pungent.Racemes 2–3, 5–10 cm long, rigid and straight.Spikelets 7–15 mm long, 7–20-flowered, lanceolate or oblong to elliptic or ovate-elliptic; glumes obliquely lanceolate in profile, acute or subacute, the inferior 2–3 mm long, the superior 3–4 mm long; lemmas 4.5–5 mm long, obliquely ovate in profile, the lateral nerves obsolete below but prominent above.
Habitat
Locally dominant on coral rocks on the seashore
Distribution
Mozambique N Cabo Delgado, Pemba (Porto Amélia), 2 km east of town, 4 m, ii.1972, Tinley 2403 (K; SRGH).
Distribution (external)
coasts of Tanzania
Seychelles
Aldabra
Comoro
Madagascar
Mascarenes Islands
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
Sclerodactylon macrostachyum Benth. A. Camus [family GRAMINEAE], in Bull. Soc. Bot. France 79: 38 (1932). TAB. 48. Type from Madagascar.
Eleusine macrostachya Benth. [family GRAMINEAE], in J. Linn. Soc., Bot. 19: 107 (1881).
Sclerodactylon juncifolium Stapf [family GRAMINEAE], in Bull. Misc. Inform., Kew 1911: 318 (1911). Type from Madagascar.
Information
Densely caespitose glaucous perennial, sometimes with creeping stolons; culms up to 50 cm tall, erect and straight, simple or rarely fasciculately branched from the lower nodes, the leaves all basal; leaf laminas 20–40 cm × up to 2.5 mm, subulate, cylindrical or ± compressed and elliptic in section, glabrous, pungent.Racemes 2–3, 5–10 cm long, rigid and straight.Spikelets 7–15 mm long, 7–20-flowered, lanceolate or oblong to elliptic or ovate-elliptic; glumes obliquely lanceolate in profile, acute or subacute, the inferior 2–3 mm long, the superior 3–4 mm long; lemmas 4.5–5 mm long, obliquely ovate in profile, the lateral nerves obsolete below but prominent above.
Habitat
Locally dominant on coral rocks on the seashore
Distribution
Mozambique N Cabo Delgado, Pemba (Porto Amélia), 2 km east of town, 4 m, ii.1972, Tinley 2403 (K; SRGH).
Distribution (external)
coasts of Tanzania
Seychelles
Aldabra
Comoro
Madagascar
Mascarenes Islands
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
Sclerodactylon macrostachyum Benth. A. Camus [family GRAMINEAE], in Bull. Soc. Bot. France 79: 38 (1932). TAB. 48. Type from Madagascar.
Eleusine macrostachya Benth. [family GRAMINEAE], in J. Linn. Soc., Bot. 19: 107 (1881).
Sclerodactylon juncifolium Stapf [family GRAMINEAE], in Bull. Misc. Inform., Kew 1911: 318 (1911). Type from Madagascar.
Information
Densely caespitose glaucous perennial, sometimes with creeping stolons; culms up to 50 cm tall, erect and straight, simple or rarely fasciculately branched from the lower nodes, the leaves all basal; leaf laminas 20–40 cm × up to 2.5 mm, subulate, cylindrical or ± compressed and elliptic in section, glabrous, pungent.Racemes 2–3, 5–10 cm long, rigid and straight.Spikelets 7–15 mm long, 7–20-flowered, lanceolate or oblong to elliptic or ovate-elliptic; glumes obliquely lanceolate in profile, acute or subacute, the inferior 2–3 mm long, the superior 3–4 mm long; lemmas 4.5–5 mm long, obliquely ovate in profile, the lateral nerves obsolete below but prominent above.
Habitat
Locally dominant on coral rocks on the seashore
Distribution
Mozambique N Cabo Delgado, Pemba (Porto Amélia), 2 km east of town, 4 m, ii.1972, Tinley 2403 (K; SRGH).
Distribution (external)
coasts of Tanzania
Seychelles
Aldabra
Comoro
Madagascar
Mascarenes Islands
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