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Monocotyledons / Monocotiledóneas
Digitaria abyssinica (A.Rich.) Stapf
EOL Text
Perennials, Terrestri al, not aquatic, Rhizomes present, Rhizome short and compact, stems close, Stems trailing, spreading or prostrate, Stems nodes swollen or brittle, Stems geniculate, decumbent, or lax, sometimes rooting at nodes, Stems mat or turf forming, Stems caespitose, tufted, or clustered, Stems terete, round in cross section, or polygonal, Stems branching above base or distally at nodes, Stem internodes hollow, Stems with inflorescence less than 1 m tall, Stems, culms, or scapes exceeding basal leaves, Leaves mostly basal, below middle of stem, Leaves mostly cauline, Leaves conspicuously 2-ranked, distichous, Leaves sheathing at base, Leaf sheath mostly open, or loose, Leaf sheath smooth, glabrous, Leaf sheath hairy, hispid or prickly, Leaf sheath hairy at summit, throat, or collar, Leaf sheath and blade differentiated, Leaf blades linear, Leaf blades 2-10 mm wide, Leaf blades mostly glabrous, Leaf blades more or less hairy, Ligule present, Ligule an unfringed eciliate membrane, Inflo rescence terminal, Inflorescence solitary, with 1 spike, fascicle, glomerule, head, or cluster per stem or culm, Inflorescence a panicle with narrowly racemose or spicate branches, Inflorescence with 2-10 branches, Inflorescence branches more than 10 to numerous, Inflorescence branches 1-sided, Rachis angular, Flowers bisexual, Spikelets pedicellate, Spikelets dorsally compressed or terete, Spikelet less than 3 mm wide, Spikelets with 1 fertile floret, Spikelets with 2 florets, Spikelet with 1 fertile floret and 1-2 sterile florets, Spikelets paired at rachis nodes, Spikelets all alike and fertille, Spikelets bisexual, Spikelets disarticulating below the glumes, Spikelets secund, in rows on one side of rachis, Rachilla or pedicel glabrous, Glumes present, empty bracts, Glumes 1 clearly present, the other greatly reduced or absent, Glumes 2 clearly present, Glumes distinctly unequal, Glumes equal to or longer than adjacent lemma, Glume equal to or longer than spikelet, Glumes 3 nerved, Glumes 4-7 nerved, Lemmas thin, chartaceous, hyaline, cartilaginous, or membranous, Lemma similar in texture to glumes, Lemma 5-7 nerved, Lemma glabrous, Lemma apex truncate, rounded, or obtuse, Lemma awnless, Lemma margins thin, lying flat, Lemma straight, Palea present, well developed, Palea membranous, hyaline, Palea about equal to lemma, Stamens 3, Styles 2-fid, deeply 2-branched, Stigmas 2, Fruit - caryopsis, Caryopsis ellipsoid, longitudinally grooved, hilum long-linear.
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Isotype for Panicum abyssinicum Hochst. ex A. Rich.
Catalog Number: US 3298785
Collection: Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History, Department of Botany
Verification Degree: Original publication and alleged type specimen examined
Preparation: Pressed specimen
Collector(s): G. W. Schimper
Year Collected: 1837
Locality: In fruticetis opacis ad radices septentrionales Montis Scholoda. [In shady thickets at northern foothils of Scholoda Mountains?], Ethiopia, Africa
- Isotype: Richard, A. 1851. Tent. Fl. Abyss. 2: 360.
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Isosyntype for Panicum scalarum Schweinf.
Catalog Number: US 1063860
Collection: Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History, Department of Botany
Verification Degree: Original publication and alleged type specimen examined
Preparation: Pressed specimen
Collector(s): G. W. Schimper
Year Collected: 1837
Locality: Adoam., Tigre, Ethiopia, Africa
- Isosyntype: Schweinfurth, G. A. 1894. Bull. Herb. Boissier. 2 (App. 2): 20.
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Isotype for Panicum abyssinicum Hochst. ex A. Rich.
Catalog Number: US 1645178
Collection: Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History, Department of Botany
Verification Degree: Original publication and alleged type specimen examined
Preparation: Pressed specimen
Collector(s): G. W. Schimper
Locality: Montis Selleuda in regno Tigre., Tigre, Ethiopia, Africa
- Isotype: Richard, A. 1851. Tent. Fl. Abyss. 2: 360.
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Isosyntype for Panicum scalarum Schweinf.
Catalog Number: US 3298795
Collection: Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History, Department of Botany
Verification Degree: Original publication and alleged type specimen examined
Preparation: Pressed specimen
Collector(s): G. W. Schimper
Year Collected: 1837
Locality: Locis incultis vallium prope Adoam., Ethiopia, Africa
- Isosyntype: Schweinfurth, G. A. 1894. Bull. Herb. Boissier. 2 (App. 2): 20.
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Isotype for Panicum abyssinicum Hochst. ex A. Rich.
Catalog Number: US 1063861
Collection: Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History, Department of Botany
Verification Degree: Original publication and alleged type specimen examined
Preparation: Pressed specimen
Collector(s): G. W. Schimper
Year Collected: 1837
Locality: In fruticetis opacis ad radices septentrionales Montis Scholoda., Ethiopia, Africa
- Isotype: Richard, A. 1851. Tent. Fl. Abyss. 2: 360.
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Isotype for Panicum abyssinicum Hochst. ex A. Rich.
Catalog Number: US 945058
Collection: Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History, Department of Botany
Verification Degree: Original publication and alleged type specimen examined
Preparation: Pressed specimen
Collector(s): G. W. Schimper
Year Collected: 1837
Locality: In fruticetis opacis ad radices septentrionales Montis Scholoda., Ethiopia, Africa
- Isotype: Richard, A. 1851. Tent. Fl. Abyss. 2: 360.
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Rights holder/Author | This image was obtained from the Smithsonian Institution. Unless otherwise noted, this image or its contents may be protected by international copyright laws. |
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