Cyrtococcum nossibeense

HABIT Perennial. Culms prostrate; 40–50 cm long. Lateral branches ample. Leaf-sheaths pilose; with tubercle-based hairs. Ligule an eciliate membrane. Leaf-blades lanceolate; 5–7 cm long; 5–8 mm wide. Leaf-blade surface puberulous (above), or pilose (below). Leaf-blade apex acuminate.

INFLORESCENCE Inflorescence a panicle.

Panicle contracted; lanceolate; 6–7 cm long; 3 cm wide. Primary panicle branches appressed. Panicle branches capillary; glabrous.

Spikelets solitary. Fertile spikelets pedicelled. Pedicels 1.5–3 mm long.

FERTILE SPIKELETS Spikelets comprising 1 basal sterile florets; 1 fertile florets; without rhachilla extension. Spikelets obovate; laterally compressed; compressed strongly; gibbous; obtuse; 2 mm long; falling entire.

GLUMES Glumes similar; shorter than spikelet; thinner than fertile lemma. Lower glume ovate; 0.9–1 mm long; 0.5 length of spikelet; membranous; without keels; 3 -veined. Lower glume apex acute. Upper glume oblong; gibbous; 1.6–1.7 mm long; 0.75 length of spikelet; membranous; without keels; 5 -veined. Upper glume apex acute.

FLORETS Basal sterile florets male; with palea. Lemma of lower sterile floret similar to upper glume; oblong; 1 length of spikelet; membranous; 5 -veined; prominently veined; obtuse. Fertile lemma obovate; laterally compressed; gibbous; 1.5 mm long; indurate; yellow; without keel. Lemma margins involute. Palea involute; indurate.

DISTRIBUTION Africa: western Indian ocean.

NOTES Paniceae. Camus 2007.

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