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Oxyrhachis gracillima Baker C.E. Hubb. [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 4, (2002) Author: T. A. Cope
Names
Oxyrhachis gracillima Baker C.E. Hubb. [family GRAMINEAE], in Hooker’s Icon. Pl. 35: t. 3454 (1947). —Simon in Kirkia 8: 53 (1971). —Clayton in F.W.T.A., ed. 2, 3: 506 (1972). —Clayton & Renvoize in F.T.E.A., Gramineae: 855, fig. 204 (1982). TAB. 61. Type from Madagascar. Rottboellia gracillima Baker [family GRAMINEAE], in J. Linn. Soc., Bot. 22: 533 (1887). Oxyrhachis mildbraediana Pilg. [family GRAMINEAE], in Notizbl. Bot. Gart. Berlin-Dahlem 11: 655 (1932). Type from Tanzania.
Information
Densely caespitose perennial; culms up to 60 cm high. Leaf laminas 5–30 cm long, filiform. Racemes 5–16 cm long, slender, long-exserted, purplish. Spikelet narrowly lanceolate, embedded in the internode; inferior glume 3–6 mm long, obtuse at the apex.
Habitat
Swampy grassland and dambos
Altitude range
c. 40–1430 m. 1430 40
Distribution
Zambia N Mporokoso Distr., 97 km SE of Mporokoso, 1430 m, 20.xii.1967, Simon & Williamson 1462 (K; SRGH).Mozambique MS Cheringoma Coast, Nyamanza Dambo, v.1973, Tinley 2907 (K; LISC; PRE).
Distribution (external)
Sierra Leone Cameroon Tanzania Madagascar

Date Updated: 26 July 2007

Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Zambesiaca
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
FZ, Vol 10, Part 4, (2002) Author: T. A. Cope
Names
Oxyrhachis gracillima Baker C.E. Hubb. [family GRAMINEAE], in Hooker’s Icon. Pl. 35: t. 3454 (1947). —Simon in Kirkia 8: 53 (1971). —Clayton in F.W.T.A., ed. 2, 3: 506 (1972). —Clayton & Renvoize in F.T.E.A., Gramineae: 855, fig. 204 (1982). TAB. 61. Type from Madagascar. Rottboellia gracillima Baker [family GRAMINEAE], in J. Linn. Soc., Bot. 22: 533 (1887). Oxyrhachis mildbraediana Pilg. [family GRAMINEAE], in Notizbl. Bot. Gart. Berlin-Dahlem 11: 655 (1932). Type from Tanzania.
Information
Densely caespitose perennial; culms up to 60 cm high. Leaf laminas 5–30 cm long, filiform. Racemes 5–16 cm long, slender, long-exserted, purplish. Spikelet narrowly lanceolate, embedded in the internode; inferior glume 3–6 mm long, obtuse at the apex.
Habitat
Swampy grassland and dambos
Altitude range
c. 40–1430 m. 1430 40
Distribution
Zambia N Mporokoso Distr., 97 km SE of Mporokoso, 1430 m, 20.xii.1967, Simon & Williamson 1462 (K; SRGH).Mozambique MS Cheringoma Coast, Nyamanza Dambo, v.1973, Tinley 2907 (K; LISC; PRE).
Distribution (external)
Sierra Leone Cameroon Tanzania Madagascar

Date Updated: 26 July 2007

Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Zambesiaca
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
FZ, Vol 10, Part 4, (2002) Author: T. A. Cope
Names
Oxyrhachis gracillima Baker C.E. Hubb. [family GRAMINEAE], in Hooker’s Icon. Pl. 35: t. 3454 (1947). —Simon in Kirkia 8: 53 (1971). —Clayton in F.W.T.A., ed. 2, 3: 506 (1972). —Clayton & Renvoize in F.T.E.A., Gramineae: 855, fig. 204 (1982). TAB. 61. Type from Madagascar. Rottboellia gracillima Baker [family GRAMINEAE], in J. Linn. Soc., Bot. 22: 533 (1887). Oxyrhachis mildbraediana Pilg. [family GRAMINEAE], in Notizbl. Bot. Gart. Berlin-Dahlem 11: 655 (1932). Type from Tanzania.
Information
Densely caespitose perennial; culms up to 60 cm high. Leaf laminas 5–30 cm long, filiform. Racemes 5–16 cm long, slender, long-exserted, purplish. Spikelet narrowly lanceolate, embedded in the internode; inferior glume 3–6 mm long, obtuse at the apex.
Habitat
Swampy grassland and dambos
Altitude range
c. 40–1430 m. 1430 40
Distribution
Zambia N Mporokoso Distr., 97 km SE of Mporokoso, 1430 m, 20.xii.1967, Simon & Williamson 1462 (K; SRGH).Mozambique MS Cheringoma Coast, Nyamanza Dambo, v.1973, Tinley 2907 (K; LISC; PRE).
Distribution (external)
Sierra Leone Cameroon Tanzania Madagascar
Oxyrhachis gracillima Baker C.E. Hubb. [family GRAMINEAE]
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