PLANTAE / PHANEROGAMAE / ANTHOPHYTA / POALES / POACEAE / CHLORIDOIDEAE / CYNODONTEAE / ELLISOCHLOA / PAPPOSA
Tufted perennial, ± 800 mm high. Leaf blade up to 360 x 1.5 mm, rigid, erect. Inflorescence a contracted, shortly branched panicle up to 180 mm long. Spikelet up to 20 mm long, laterally compressed; glumes ± equal, 11-18 mm long, 1-nerved. Florets (3)4 or 5; lemma 10-16 mm long, backs glabrous with only margins fringed with short hairs from base to middle, this fringe terminates in a marginal tuft of white hairs; lobes 5-7 mm long, free from central awn, long awned; central awn 13-18 mm long, geniculate close to base, twisted basally, apical portion much longer than base and protruding from spikelets for some length. Flowering time Dec.-Apr. From: Fish, L; Bredenkamp, CL; Magwaza, ZL. 2019. Poaceae. In: CL Bredenkamp (ed.), A Flora of the Eastern Cape Province. Strelitzia 41(3): 1958-2104. South African National Biodiversity Institute, Pretoria. [CC BY] As: Merxmuellera papposa (Nees) Conert
Tufted perennial; culms 30-1200 mm high. Leaf blade 7-300 x 1-8 mm, not deciduous at ligule; ligule a fringe of hairs or a ciliate membrane. Inflorescence a dense panicle, contracted, 25-300 x 5-30 mm. Spikelets 7-24 mm long, lanceolate or cuneate, laterally compressed; glumes ± equal, 13-18 mm long, 3-nerved. Florets 2-6; breaking up at maturity and disarticulating below each fertile floret; rachilla internodes not elongated between glumes; callus pubescent, pungent; glumes 7-22 mm long; paleas as long as lemmas, shorter or longer than spikelet, elliptic to lanceolate, chartaceous or membranous, persistent, 1-11-veined. Lemmas 4-11 mm long, oblong chartaceous, 9-veined, with a transverse row of hair tufts, bearing 2-8 tufts in all, apex bilobed and awned between lobes at sinus; awn 3-18 mm long, either geniculate or with a straight column. Paleas as long as or shorter than lemma, 2-veined. Stamens 3; anthers 1-5 mm long; lodiculae 2. Flowering time Dec., Jan. Caryopsis with adherent pericarp. From: Fish, L; Bredenkamp, CL; Magwaza, ZL. 2019. Poaceae. In: CL Bredenkamp (ed.), A Flora of the Eastern Cape Province. Strelitzia 41(3): 1958-2104. South African National Biodiversity Institute, Pretoria. [CC BY]
Perennial to 50 cm. Leaves linear, rolled. Spikelets in a dense panicle, silvery and straw-coloured, glumes 3-nerved, lemmas 9-10 mm long, sparsely hairy below, with 3 tufts of long white hairs ± 6 mm, awn 15-18 mm long, geniculate. From: Manning, JC; Goldblatt, P; Linder, HP. 2012. Poaceae: Ellisochloa P.M.Peterson & N.P.Barker. In: J Manning & P Goldblatt (eds), Plants of the Greater Cape Floristic Region 1: The Core Cape flora. Strelitzia 29: 210-210. South African National Biodiversity Institute, Pretoria. [CC BY]
Xeric alpine grassland and crevices in basaltic cliffs of Drakensberg, alt. > 2000 m. Drakensberg Grassland. From: Fish, L; Bredenkamp, CL; Magwaza, ZL. 2019. Poaceae. In: CL Bredenkamp (ed.), A Flora of the Eastern Cape Province. Strelitzia 41(3): 1958-2104. South African National Biodiversity Institute, Pretoria. [CC BY] As: Merxmuellera papposa (Nees) Conert
Coarse alluvial sands. Albany Thicket, Eastern Fynbos-Renosterveld. From: Fish, L; Bredenkamp, CL; Magwaza, ZL. 2019. Poaceae. In: CL Bredenkamp (ed.), A Flora of the Eastern Cape Province. Strelitzia 41(3): 1958-2104. South African National Biodiversity Institute, Pretoria. [CC BY]
Sandstone slopes. From: Manning, JC; Goldblatt, P; Linder, HP. 2012. Poaceae: Ellisochloa P.M.Peterson & N.P.Barker. In: J Manning & P Goldblatt (eds), Plants of the Greater Cape Floristic Region 1: The Core Cape flora. Strelitzia 29: 210-210. South African National Biodiversity Institute, Pretoria. [CC BY]
Uitenhage. From: Manning, JC; Goldblatt, P; Linder, HP. 2012. Poaceae: Ellisochloa P.M.Peterson & N.P.Barker. In: J Manning & P Goldblatt (eds), Plants of the Greater Cape Floristic Region 1: The Core Cape flora. Strelitzia 29: 210-210. South African National Biodiversity Institute, Pretoria. [CC BY]
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Names and Sources
Published in: Taxon 60(4): 1119 (2011)
Type: South Africa, Eastern Cape, Uitenhage, Zwartkopsrivier, Ecklon 137 (W-1889-0244838, lecto.). Lectotype designated by Peterson et al., Taxon 60(4): 1119 (2011).
Danthonia papposa Nees
Published in: Fl. Afr. Austral. 3: 333 (1841)
Merxmuellera papposa (Nees) Conert
Published in: Senck. Biol. 51: 133 (1970)
Classification
KINGDOM Plantae
SUBKINGDOM Phanerogamae
PHYLUM Anthophyta
ORDER Poales
FAMILY Poaceae
SUBFAMILY Chloridoideae
TRIBE Cynodonteae
GENUS Ellisochloa
SPECIES papposa
10 results for Ellisochloa papposa (Nees) P.M.Peterson & N.P.Barker
Barcode: PRE0031280-0 Collector(s) & number: Curator Pretoria Bot. Garden, 469 | --
South Africa, Eastern Cape, UITENHAGE DIV.; STONY CHANNEL; ZWARTKOP RIVER
Data Resource: BODATSA View record
Barcode: PRE0745046-0 Collector(s) & number: Barker, NP, 645 | 1989-9-29
South Africa, Eastern Cape, BETWEEN PATENSIE & WILLOWMORE ON BAVIANS- KLOOF ROAD
Data Resource: BODATSA View record
Barcode: PRE0745045-0 Collector(s) & number: Barker, NP, 644 | 1989-9-29
South Africa, Eastern Cape, BETWEEN PATENSIE & WILLOWMORE ON BAVIANS- KLOOF ROAD
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Barcode: SAM0012690A-0 Collector(s) & number: Ecklon, CF, 49 | --
South Africa, Eastern Cape, Zwartkops River
General notes: In stony areas. Flowers November.
Data Resource: BODATSA View record
Barcode: SAM0012690B-0 Collector(s) & number: Ecklon, CF, 4548 | --
South Africa, Eastern Cape, Zwartkops River.
General notes: 1½ ft high.
Data Resource: BODATSA View record
Barcode: PRE0031281-0 Collector(s) & number: Ecklon, CF, PRE 25729 | --
South Africa, Eastern Cape, UITENHAGE DIV.; ZWARTKOPS RIVER
Data Resource: BODATSA View record
Barcode: PRE0031283-0 Collector(s) & number: Ecklon, PRE 25919 | --
South Africa, Eastern Cape, UITENHAGE DIV.; ZWARTKOPS RIVER
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Barcode: PRE0031279-0 Collector(s) & number: Burchell, WJ, 4430 | 1814-1-12
South Africa, Eastern Cape, UITENHAGE; ZWARTKOPS RIVER
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Barcode: PRE0032507-0 Collector(s) & number: Acocks, JPH, 23073 | 1962-11-17
South Africa, Western Cape, GEORGE DIV.; CAMFER STA.; 4.2 MI. WNW. OF CAMFER STA.
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Barcode: PRE0574636-0 Collector(s) & number: Barker, NP, 1759 | 2000-10-7
South Africa, Eastern Cape, Patensie: Baviaanskloof, in eroded drainage line near last houses before gate into wilderness area.
General notes: Pebbles and sand of alluvial origin.
Data Resource: BODATSA View record
This map contains point-based occurrences at different locations
2019
SERIES CHAPTER
Poaceae Fish, L; Bredenkamp, CL; Magwaza, ZLIn: CL Bredenkamp (ed.), A Flora of the Eastern Cape Province. Strelitzia 41(3)1958-2104
South African National Biodiversity Institute, Pretoria
2015
SERIES
Identification guide to southern African grasses Fish, L; Mashau, AC; Moeaha, MJ; Nembudani, MTStrelitzia 36: 1-798
South African National Biodiversity Institute, Pretoria
2012
SERIES CHAPTER
Poaceae: Ellisochloa P.M.Peterson & N.P.Barker Manning, JC; Goldblatt, P; Linder, HPIn: J Manning & P Goldblatt (eds), Plants of the Greater Cape Floristic Region 1: The Core Cape flora. Strelitzia 29: 210-210
South African National Biodiversity Institute, Pretoria
2011
PERIODICAL/JOURNAL
Centropodieae and Ellisochloa, a new tribe and genus in Chloridoideae (Poaceae) Peterson, PM; Romaschenko, K; Barker, NP; Linder, HPTaxon 60(4)1113-1122
1970
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No results found for Ellisochloa papposa (Nees) P.M.Peterson & N.P.Barker
Status and criteria
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