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Crypsis schoenoides

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Name

Identification
Crypsis schoenoides (L.) Lam [family GRAMINEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by W.D. Clayton, 1969 Crypsis vaginiflora (Forssk.) Opiz [family GRAMINEAE ] Verified by John R. Reeder " B. Hammel, 1979 Phalaris vaginiflora Forssk. [family GRAMINEAE ] Verified by Not on Sheet,
Related name
  • Crypsis compacta
  • Crypsis unrecorded
  • Phalaris vaginatiflorus
  • Crypsis syenensis
  • Phalaris vaginiflora
  • Crypsis aculeata
  • Heleochloa schoenoides
  • Crypsis vaginiflora
  • Heleochloa unrecorded
  • Spartina phleoides
  • Crypsis schoenoides
  • Phleum schoenoides

Flora

Entry for CRYPSIS schoenoides (L.) Lam. [family POACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical East Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of Tropical East Africa, Part (Part 2), page 177, (1974) Author: W. D. CLAYTON, S. M. PHILLIPS AND S. A. RENVOIZE
Names
CRYPSIS schoenoides (L.) Lam. [family POACEAE], ,Tab. Encycl. 1: 166, t. 42/1 (1791); F.P.S. 3: 421 (1956); G.T.: 49 (1965). Type: Spain, Löfling (LINN, holo.!)
Phleum schoenoides L. [family POACEAE], Sp. Pl.: 60 (1753)
Phalaris vaginiflora Forsk. [family POACEAE], Fl. Aegypt.-Arab.: 18 (1775). Type: Egypt, Alexandria, Forsskål (C, holo.!)
Heleochloa schoenoides (L.) Host [family ], Gram. Austr. 1: 23 (1801); F.D.O.-A. 1: 276 (1931)
Crypsis vaginiflora (Forsk.) Opiz [family POACEAE], Naturalientausch 8: 83 (1824)
Crypsis niliaca Fig. & De Not. [family POACEAE], Mem. Accad. Sci. Torino, ser. 2, 14: 322 (1854). Type: Egypt, Figari (FI, iso.!)
Information
Annual; culms profusely branched at the base, at first prostrate, finally ascending, 1–30 cm. high. Leaf-blades broadly linear, 0.5–12 cm. long, 1–5 mm. wide, glaucous, tapering to an acuminate tip. Inflorescence ellipsoid or ovoid, 0.5–3 cm. long, embraced at the base by 2 inflated distichous sheaths. Spikelets lanceolate, 2.5–4 mm. long, laterally flattened, disarticulating below the floret; glumes narrowly lanceolate, ±2.5 mm. long, 1-nerved, stiffly ciliate on the keel; lemma lanceolate, as long as the spikelet; palea 2-nerved; anthers 3, 0.5–1 mm. long. Grain obovate-elliptic, 1.5 mm. long. Fig. 99.
Range
DISTR. T2, 5 Mediterranean region and Sudan eastwards to N. India; isolated records from Senegal, Mozambique, Malawi and Madagascar; introduced to U.S.A.
Altitude range
1000–1500 m.
Distribution
TANZANIA Masai District Monduli, Ardai Ranch, 14 July 1968, Kisaka 161TANZANIA Mpwapwa District Kimigai Swamp [Lake Kimagi], 9 Oct. 1938, Greenway 5804 ! & Lake Nzuhe [Nzue], 12 Dec. 1937, Staples 437 !

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