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Cenchrus sphacelatus Morrone

  • 1. Key Laboratory of Plant Germplasm Enhancement and Specialty Agriculture, Wuhan Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan 430074, Hubei, PR China & Center of Conservation Biology, Core Botanical Gardens, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan 430074, Hubei, PR China & Sino-Africa Joint Research Center (SAJOREC), Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan 430074, Hubei, PR China & zhouyd @ wbgcas. cn; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0001 - 6886 - 0662
  • 2. East African Herbarium, National Museums of Kenya, P. O. Box 45166, 00100 Nairobi, Kenya & gmwachala @ museums. or. ke; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0001 - 5334 - 0744
  • 3. Key Laboratory of Plant Germplasm Enhancement and Specialty Agriculture, Wuhan Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan 430074, Hubei, PR China & Center of Conservation Biology, Core Botanical Gardens, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan 430074, Hubei, PR China & Sino-Africa Joint Research Center (SAJOREC), Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan 430074, Hubei, PR China & guangwanhu @ wbgcas. cn; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0001 - 7728 - 7976
  • 4. Key Laboratory of Plant Germplasm Enhancement and Specialty Agriculture, Wuhan Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan 430074, Hubei, PR China & Center of Conservation Biology, Core Botanical Gardens, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan 430074, Hubei, PR China & Sino-Africa Joint Research Center (SAJOREC), Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan 430074, Hubei, PR China & qfwang @ wbgcas. cn; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0001 - 9143 - 8849 Authors for correspondence

Description

Cenchrus sphacelatus (Nees) Morrone

Habit: Herb.

Habitat: LMDF; 1 400–3 200 m. Distribution: II.

Voucher: Timau Track, Alt. 3000 m, 15 Aug. 1980, Young 10 (EA).

References: Fries & Fries (1928), Young & Young (1983), Agnew (2013).

Notes

Published as part of Zhou, Ya-Dong, Mwachala, Geoffrey, Hu, Guang-Wan & Wang, Qing-Feng, 2022, Annotated checklist of the vascular plants of Mount Kenya, East Africa, pp. 1-108 in Phytotaxa 546 (1) on page 36, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.546.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/6550464

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Collection code
EA
Event date
1980-08-15
Family
Poaceae
Genus
Cenchrus
Kingdom
Plantae
Order
Poales
Phylum
Tracheophyta
Scientific name authorship
Morrone
Species
sphacelatus
Taxon rank
species
Verbatim event date
1980-08-15

References

  • Fries, R. E. & Fries, T. C. E. (1928) Beitrage zur Kenntnis der Flora des Kenia, Mt. Aberdare und Mt. Elgon. XI. Notizblatt des Koniglichen Botanischen Gartens und Museums zu Berlin 10 (93): 266 - 272. https: // doi. org / 10.2307 / 3994673
  • Young, H. J. & Young, T. P. (1983) Local distribution of C 3 and C 4 grasses on Mount Kenya. Oecologia 58: 373 - 377. https: // doi. org / 10.1007 / BF 00385238
  • Agnew, A. D. Q. (2013) Upland Kenya wild flowers and ferns, 3 rd edn. Nature Kenya Publications, Nairobi, 733 pp.