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Holotype of Digitaria arushae Clayton [family POACEAE]

Date Updated: 5 September 2005

Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K), K000281511
Collection
Herbarium Specimens
Resource Type
Specimens
Collector
Greenway, P.J.; Kanuri, #12283
Collection Date
05-11-1965
Locality
Arusha district, Ngurdoto National Park, Kinandia swamp T2
Country
Tanzania (Tanzania)
Collection altitude
1402.0
Identifications
Holotype of Digitaria arushae Clayton [family POACEAE] (stored under name); Verified by Clayton,W.D., Digitaria perrottetii (Kunth) Stapf [family POACEAE] Digitaria diagonalis (Nees) Stapf [family POACEAE]
Notes
A perennial tussock grass with procumbent and ascending stems up to 3ft tall often branching towards the base; leaves grey-green thinly pubescent; stems green and red flushed; glumes small apple-green in 1½ inch long spikelets up the 8-12 inch long raceme. In local scattered clumps with another Digitaria-Cyperaceae-Cynodon dactylon in the more open parts of Lippia-Lantana-Aspilia thicket with scattered Acacia xanthophloea-Schrebera alata-Croton megalocarpus-Leucas-Psidia arabica on a stony ridge D. sp. = Welek 557 & Vesey-Fitzgerald 4648
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Data last modified
05-09-2005
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