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Eriochloa fatmensis

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Name

Identification
Panicum annulatum A.Rich. [family POACEAE ] Eriochloa fatmensis (Hochst. & Steud.) Clayton [family POACEAE ] (stored under name);
Related name
  • Panicum fatmense
  • Eriochloa fatmensis
  • Eriochloa boxiana
  • Eriochloa procera
  • Eriochloa fouchei
  • Eriochloa nubica
  • Helopus nubicus
  • Helopus annulatus
  • Panicum annulatum
  • Eriochloa acrotricha
Common name
  • geron kiyashi = ant’s millet (Taylor) (NIGERIA, HAUSA), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 2
  • buteri (A.Chev.) (NIGER, KANURI), Burkill, H.M. 1985. The useful plants of west tropical Africa, Vol. 2

Flora

Entry for ERIOCHLOA fatmensis (Hochst. & Steud.) Clayton [family POACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Somalia
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Somalia, Vol 4, (1995) Author: by T. A. Cope [updated by M. Thulin 2008]
Names
ERIOCHLOA fatmensis (Hochst. & Steud.) Clayton [family POACEAE], (1975). Fig. 132.
ERIOCHLOA acrotricha (Steud.) Hack. ex Thell. [family POACEAE], (1907).
ERIOCHLOA nubica (Steud.) Hack. ex Stapf & Thell. [family POACEAE], (1919).
ERIOCHLOA ramosa [family POACEAE], sensu Chiov. non (Retz.) Kuntze.
Information
Annual up to 120 cm high, erect or geniculately ascending. Inflorescence 3–20 cm long; racemes 1–5 cm long, the rhachis puberulous, triquetrous or narrowly winged, the spikelets paired. Spikelets lanceolate, (2.5–)3–5 mm long, thinly pubescent; lower glume apparently absent; upper glume attenuate to an awnlet 0.5–4 mm long; lower floret without a palea; upper lemma with a mucro 0.3–1 mm long.
Range
N1–3; C1, 2; S1–3 tropical and South Africa and Arabia, a few records also from India and Thailand.
Altitude range
150–1550 m.
Distribution
SOMALIA Gillett 3913A; Glover & Gilliland 677; Hansen & Heemstra 6305; Wieland 4530; Gillett & al. 22660; Friis & al. 4791; Bavazzano 337; Rose Innes 773.
Notes
Agar, buldorle agar, darabo, dhalad (Som.). Very similar to, and perhaps conspecific with, the Asiatic E. procera (Retz.) C.E. Hubb. (syn. E. ramosa (Retz.) Kuntze). The two species intergrade and are traditionally distinguished by the tip of the spikelet (acute to acuminate in E. procera , with an awn up to 4 mm in E. fatmensis) and the pedicel (glabrous in E. procera, setose in E. fatmensis).

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