- Family: Poaceae Barnhart
- Genus: Cenchrus L.
Cenchrus pseudotriticoides (A.Camus) ined.
- Genus: Cenchrus L.
This species is accepted, and its native range is Madagascar.
Descriptions
According to GrassBase - The Online World Grass Flora under the synonym Pennisetum pseudotriticoides
[GB]- Habit
- Perennial; caespitose; clumped densely. Culms erect; 50-80 cm long. Culm-internodes distally glabrous. Ligule a fringe of hairs. Leaf-blades conduplicate; 15-50 cm long; 2-4 mm wide.
- Inflorescences
- Inflorescence a panicle. Panicle spiciform; linear; loose; 8-20 cm long; 0.5-0.8 cm wide. Primary panicle branches accrescent to a central axis; with sessile scars on axis. Panicle axis angular; scaberulous; glabrous; bearing deciduous spikelet clusters. Spikelets subtended by an involucre. Fertile spikelets sessile; 1 in the cluster. Involucre composed of bristles; 10-11 mm long. Involucral bristles deciduous with the fertile spikelets; in one whorl; 10-15 in principal whorl; with one conspicuously longer bristle; 12-25 mm long; terete; flexible; glabrous.
- Spikelets
- Spikelets comprising 1 basal sterile florets; 1 fertile florets; without rhachilla extension. Spikelets lanceolate; dorsally compressed; 7-9 mm long; falling entire; deciduous with accessory branch structures.
- Fertile
- Spikelets comprising 1 basal sterile florets; 1 fertile florets; without rhachilla extension. Spikelets lanceolate; dorsally compressed; 7-9 mm long; falling entire; deciduous with accessory branch structures.
- Glume
- Glumes dissimilar; shorter than spikelet; thinner than fertile lemma. Lower glume ovate; 0.05 length of spikelet; hyaline; without keels; 0 -veined. Lower glume lateral veins absent. Upper glume ovate; 1-1.5 mm long; 0.15-0.33 length of spikelet; membranous; without keels; 1 -veined. Upper glume primary vein obscure. Upper glume lateral veins absent. Upper glume apex acute.
- Florets
- Basal sterile florets male; with palea. Lemma of lower sterile floret ovate; 1 length of spikelet; membranous; 7-9 -veined; acute. Fertile lemma lanceolate; 7-9 mm long; cartilaginous; without keel. Lemma margins flat. Lemma apex acute. Palea membranous.
- Flowers
- Lodicules absent. Anthers 3.
- Distribution
- Africa: western Indian ocean.
- Reference
- Paniceae. Gr Madag 1997.
Distribution
Synonyms
Other Data
Cenchrus pseudotriticoides (A.Camus) ined. appears in other Kew resources:
Bibliography
Literature
Kew Backbone Distributions
- Bosser, J. (1969). Gramiées des pasturages et des cultures a Madagascar: 1-440. ORSTOM, Paris.
Sources
GrassBase - The Online World Grass Flora
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Kew Backbone Distributions
The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Selected Plant Families 2019. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/
© Copyright 2017 World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0
Kew Names and Taxonomic Backbone
The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Selected Plant Families 2019. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/
© Copyright 2017 International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0