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Cynodon nlemfuensis Vanderyst [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
Cynodon nlemfuensis Vanderyst [family GRAMINEAE], in Bull. Agric. Congo Belge 13: 342 (1922). —Simon in Kirkia 8: 25 & 59 (1971). —Clayton in F.T.E.A., Gramineae: 319 (1974). —Gibbs Russell et al., Grasses Southern Africa [Mem. Bot. Surv. S. Africa No. 58]: 97 (1990). Syntypes from Dem. Rep. Congo (Zaire). Cynodon sp. [family GRAMINEAE], of Jackson & Wiehe, Annot. Check List Nyasal. Grass.: 34 (1958), pro parte.
Information
Stoloniferous perennial without rhizomes; stolons stout; culms robust to fairly slender, up to 60 cm tall, soft, not woody (but stolons woody); leaf laminas 4–11.5 cm × 2–6 mm, flat.Racemes 4–16 in 1 or sometimes 2 whorls, 4–20 cm long.Spikelets 2–2.6 mm long, green or pigmented with red or purple; glumes narrowly lanceolate in profile, the superior 1/2–3/4 as long as the spikelet; lemma silky-pubescent to softly ciliate on the keel.

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
Cynodon nlemfuensis Vanderyst [family GRAMINEAE], in Bull. Agric. Congo Belge 13: 342 (1922). —Simon in Kirkia 8: 25 & 59 (1971). —Clayton in F.T.E.A., Gramineae: 319 (1974). —Gibbs Russell et al., Grasses Southern Africa [Mem. Bot. Surv. S. Africa No. 58]: 97 (1990). Syntypes from Dem. Rep. Congo (Zaire). Cynodon sp. [family GRAMINEAE], of Jackson & Wiehe, Annot. Check List Nyasal. Grass.: 34 (1958), pro parte.
Information
Stoloniferous perennial without rhizomes; stolons stout; culms robust to fairly slender, up to 60 cm tall, soft, not woody (but stolons woody); leaf laminas 4–11.5 cm × 2–6 mm, flat.Racemes 4–16 in 1 or sometimes 2 whorls, 4–20 cm long.Spikelets 2–2.6 mm long, green or pigmented with red or purple; glumes narrowly lanceolate in profile, the superior 1/2–3/4 as long as the spikelet; lemma silky-pubescent to softly ciliate on the keel.

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
Cynodon nlemfuensis Vanderyst [family GRAMINEAE], in Bull. Agric. Congo Belge 13: 342 (1922). —Simon in Kirkia 8: 25 & 59 (1971). —Clayton in F.T.E.A., Gramineae: 319 (1974). —Gibbs Russell et al., Grasses Southern Africa [Mem. Bot. Surv. S. Africa No. 58]: 97 (1990). Syntypes from Dem. Rep. Congo (Zaire). Cynodon sp. [family GRAMINEAE], of Jackson & Wiehe, Annot. Check List Nyasal. Grass.: 34 (1958), pro parte.
Information
Stoloniferous perennial without rhizomes; stolons stout; culms robust to fairly slender, up to 60 cm tall, soft, not woody (but stolons woody); leaf laminas 4–11.5 cm × 2–6 mm, flat.Racemes 4–16 in 1 or sometimes 2 whorls, 4–20 cm long.Spikelets 2–2.6 mm long, green or pigmented with red or purple; glumes narrowly lanceolate in profile, the superior 1/2–3/4 as long as the spikelet; lemma silky-pubescent to softly ciliate on the keel.
Cynodon nlemfuensis Vanderyst [family GRAMINEAE]
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