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Tragus pedunculatus Pilg. [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
Tragus pedunculatus Pilg. [family GRAMINEAE], in Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 45: 208 (1910). —Dinter in Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. 24: 14 (1928). —Schweickerdt in Ann. Natal Mus. 10: 19, fig. 1 (1941). —Chippindall in Meredith, Grasses & Pastures of South Africa: 107, fig. 80 (1955). —Launert in Merxmüller, Prodr. Fl. SW. Afrika, fam. 160: 206 (1970). —Gibbs Russell et al., Grasses Southern Africa [Mem. Bot. Surv. S. Africa No. 58]: 338 (1990). Type from Namibia.
Information
Annual up to 20 cm tall, erect or ascending; leaf laminas 1.2–2.5 × 1 mm, plicate, the margins strongly thickened, whitish, sparsely pectinate below, smooth or barbellate above.Inflorescence up to 6 cm long, very lax, with only 4–7 racemelets comprising up to 4 fertile and 1 sterile spikelets, erect or deflexed on a peduncle 5–7 mm long.Spikelets 6–7(10) mm long; superior glume prominently 7–9-nerved, alternate nerves bearing long straight or curved, but not hooked, bulbous-based prickles, glabrous between the nerves; anthers 0.9–1.3 mm long.
Habitat
In shallow sand over outcropping limestone, and in compacted bare ground and pan margins on calcrete
Altitude range
c. 1000 m.
1000
1000
Distribution
Botswana N nearBotswana /Namibia border at 19°38'S, 21°00'E, 27.iv.1982, P.A. Smith 3889 (K; SRGH).Botswana SW 60 km NE of Ghanzi on road to Maun via Kuke Pan, 17.iii.1976, Ellis 2700 (K).
Distribution (external)
Namibia
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
Tragus pedunculatus Pilg. [family GRAMINEAE], in Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 45: 208 (1910). —Dinter in Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. 24: 14 (1928). —Schweickerdt in Ann. Natal Mus. 10: 19, fig. 1 (1941). —Chippindall in Meredith, Grasses & Pastures of South Africa: 107, fig. 80 (1955). —Launert in Merxmüller, Prodr. Fl. SW. Afrika, fam. 160: 206 (1970). —Gibbs Russell et al., Grasses Southern Africa [Mem. Bot. Surv. S. Africa No. 58]: 338 (1990). Type from Namibia.
Information
Annual up to 20 cm tall, erect or ascending; leaf laminas 1.2–2.5 × 1 mm, plicate, the margins strongly thickened, whitish, sparsely pectinate below, smooth or barbellate above.Inflorescence up to 6 cm long, very lax, with only 4–7 racemelets comprising up to 4 fertile and 1 sterile spikelets, erect or deflexed on a peduncle 5–7 mm long.Spikelets 6–7(10) mm long; superior glume prominently 7–9-nerved, alternate nerves bearing long straight or curved, but not hooked, bulbous-based prickles, glabrous between the nerves; anthers 0.9–1.3 mm long.
Habitat
In shallow sand over outcropping limestone, and in compacted bare ground and pan margins on calcrete
Altitude range
c. 1000 m.
1000
1000
Distribution
Botswana N nearBotswana /Namibia border at 19°38'S, 21°00'E, 27.iv.1982, P.A. Smith 3889 (K; SRGH).Botswana SW 60 km NE of Ghanzi on road to Maun via Kuke Pan, 17.iii.1976, Ellis 2700 (K).
Distribution (external)
Namibia
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
Tragus pedunculatus Pilg. [family GRAMINEAE], in Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 45: 208 (1910). —Dinter in Repert. Spec. Nov. Regni Veg. 24: 14 (1928). —Schweickerdt in Ann. Natal Mus. 10: 19, fig. 1 (1941). —Chippindall in Meredith, Grasses & Pastures of South Africa: 107, fig. 80 (1955). —Launert in Merxmüller, Prodr. Fl. SW. Afrika, fam. 160: 206 (1970). —Gibbs Russell et al., Grasses Southern Africa [Mem. Bot. Surv. S. Africa No. 58]: 338 (1990). Type from Namibia.
Information
Annual up to 20 cm tall, erect or ascending; leaf laminas 1.2–2.5 × 1 mm, plicate, the margins strongly thickened, whitish, sparsely pectinate below, smooth or barbellate above.Inflorescence up to 6 cm long, very lax, with only 4–7 racemelets comprising up to 4 fertile and 1 sterile spikelets, erect or deflexed on a peduncle 5–7 mm long.Spikelets 6–7(10) mm long; superior glume prominently 7–9-nerved, alternate nerves bearing long straight or curved, but not hooked, bulbous-based prickles, glabrous between the nerves; anthers 0.9–1.3 mm long.
Habitat
In shallow sand over outcropping limestone, and in compacted bare ground and pan margins on calcrete
Altitude range
c. 1000 m.
1000
1000
Distribution
Botswana N nearBotswana /Namibia border at 19°38'S, 21°00'E, 27.iv.1982, P.A. Smith 3889 (K; SRGH).Botswana SW 60 km NE of Ghanzi on road to Maun via Kuke Pan, 17.iii.1976, Ellis 2700 (K).
Distribution (external)
Namibia
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