Poaceae
Eragrostis

Eragrostis arenicola C.E.Hubb.

First published in Kew Bull. 4: 345 (1949)
This species is accepted
The native range of this species is Tropical & S. Africa. It is an annual and grows primarily in the seasonally dry tropical biome.

Distribution

Native to:

Angola, Cameroon, Congo, DR Congo, KwaZulu-Natal, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Nigeria, Northern Provinces, Sudan-South Sudan, Tanzania, Togo, Zambia, Zimbabwe

Synonyms

Heterotypic Synonyms

Classification

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Publications

POWO follows these authorities in accepting this name:

  • Brunel, J.F., Hiepo, P. & Scholz, H. (eds.) (1984). Flore Analytique du Togo Phanérogames: 1-751. GTZ, Eschborn.
  • Clayton, W.D., Harman, K.T. & Williamson, H. (2006). World Grass Species - Synonymy database The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
  • Clayton, W.D., Phillips, S.M., Renvoize, S.A. (1974). Gramineae. Flora of Tropical East Africa 2: 177-449.
  • Cope, T. (1999). Flora Zambesiaca 10(2): 1-261. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
  • Darbyshire, I., Kordofani, M., Farag, I., Candiga, R. & Pickering, H. (eds.) (2015). The Plants of Sudan and South Sudan: 1-400. Kew publishing, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
  • Figueiredo, E. & Smith, G.F. (2008). Plants of Angola. Strelitzia 22: 1-279. National Botanical Institute, Pretoria.
  • Germishuizen, G. & Meyer, N.L. (eds.) (2003). Plants of Southern Africa: an annotated checklist. Strelitzia 14.: i-vi, 1-1231. National Botanical Institute, Pretoria.
  • Hepper, F.N. (ed.) (1972). Flora of West Tropical Africa, ed. 2, 3(2): 277-574.
  • Onana, J.M. (2011). The vascular plants of Cameroon a taxonomic checklist with IUCN assessments: 1-195. National herbarium of Cameroon, Yaoundé.
  • Sita, P. & Moutsambote, J.-M. (2005). Catalogue des plantes vasculaires du Congo, ed. sept. 2005: 1-158. ORSTOM, Centre de Brazzaville.

Flora of West Tropical Africa

  • in Kew Bull. 4: 345 (1949).

Kew Backbone Distributions

  • Brunel, J.F., Hiepo, P. & Scholz, H. (eds.) (1984). Flore Analytique du Togo Phanérogames: 1-751. GTZ, Eschborn.
  • Clayton, W.D., Phillips, S.M., Renvoize, S.A. (1974). Gramineae. Flora of Tropical East Africa 2: 177-449.
  • Cope, T. (1999). Flora Zambesiaca 10(2): 1-261. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
  • Darbyshire, I., Kordofani, M., Farag, I., Candiga, R. & Pickering, H. (eds.) (2015). The Plants of Sudan and South Sudan: 1-400. Kew publishing, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
  • Figueiredo, E. & Smith, G.F. (2008). Plants of Angola. Strelitzia 22: 1-279. National Botanical Institute, Pretoria.
  • Germishuizen, G. & Meyer, N.L. (eds.) (2003). Plants of Southern Africa: an annotated checklist. Strelitzia 14.: i-vi, 1-1231. National Botanical Institute, Pretoria.
  • Hepper, F.N. (ed.) (1972). Flora of West Tropical Africa, ed. 2, 3(2): 277-574.
  • Sita, P. & Moutsambote, J.-M. (2005). Catalogue des plantes vasculaires du Congo, ed. sept. 2005: 1-158. ORSTOM, Centre de Brazzaville.

Flora of Tropical East Africa

  • C. E. Hubbard in Kew Bulletin 4: 345 (1949).
  • Clayton in Flora of West Tropical Africa, ed. 2, 3: 386 (1972).
  • D.M. Napper, Grasses of Tanganyika: 36 (1965).
  • F. W. Andr., The Flowering Plants of the Sudan 3: 452 (1956).
  • Jackson & Wiehe, Ann. list Nyasaland grasses: 38 (1958).

Other Data

Other Kew resources that provide information on this taxon:

Date Reference Identified As Barcode Type Status Has image?
Jan 1, 1959 Eyles, F. [2190] K000366248 Type Yes
Jan 1, 1959 Welw. [2635] Angola K000366247 Type Yes
Mainwaring, C. [2209] Zimbabwe K003572185 No
Rogers, F.A. [7686] Zambia K003572146 No
[W. H. Longden] [1088] Zimbabwe K003572176 No
Wiehe, P.O. [N/154] Malawi K003572115 Yes
McCallum-Webster, M. [A313] Zambia K003572131 No
Fenner, J.E.L. [330] Malawi K003572117 Yes
Whyte, A.; Johnston, H.H. [s.n.] Malawi K003572107 Yes
[Jonathan] [53] Malawi K003572113 Yes
Cormack, A.B. [84] Malawi K003572100 Yes
Astle, W.L. [2446] Zambia K003572125 No
Rogers, F.A. [7709] Zambia K003572147 No
Blair, I.J. [113] Sudan K003326190 Yes
Verboom, W.C. [771] Zambia K003572126 No
Pettet, A. [s.n.] Sudan K003326184 Yes
Stolz, A. [1648a] Tanzania K003362489 Yes
Thatcher, D.V. [S552] Nigeria K003816649 Yes
Magaji, S.O. [MG724] Nigeria K003816653 Yes
Biegel, H.M. [1210] Zimbabwe K003572152 No
Angus, A. [2371] Zambia K003572129 No
Trapnell, C.G. [2029] Zambia K003572143 No
Rattray, J.M. [88] Zimbabwe K003572173 No
Jacobsen, E. (Mrs.) [37] Tanzania K003362490 Yes
Cormack, A.B. [87] Malawi K003572097 Yes
Stolz, A. [1648a] Tanzania K003362486 Yes
Whyte, A.; Johnston, H.H. [s.n.] Malawi K003572106 Yes
Bates, G.R. [22769] Zimbabwe K003572158 No
Natural History Society [19] Tanzania K003362488 Yes
Robinson, E.A. [1653] Tanzania K003362493 Yes
Robinson, E.A. [6450] Zambia K003572121 No
Cormack, A.B. [502] Malawi K003572186 No
Wilson, S.G. [24] Malawi K003572118 Yes
Jackson, G. [64] Malawi K003572114 Yes
Hornby, H.E. [H2359] Zimbabwe K003572179 No
Sandwith, C. [16] Zambia K003572145 No
Trapnell, C.G. [2029b] Zambia K003572144 No
Mogg, A.O.D. [34301] Zimbabwe K003572154 No
Brain, C.K. [1733] Zimbabwe K003572175 No
Fitt, R.H. [170] Zimbabwe K003572174 No
Cormack, A.B. [272] Malawi K003572102 Yes
McCallum-Webster, M. [A218] Zambia K003572130 No
Bullock, A.A. [2965] Tanzania K003362491 Yes
Hinds, J.H. [59] Zambia K003572139 No
Thomas, A.S. [Th1607] Sudan K003326188 Yes
Plowes, D.C.H. [1813A] Zimbabwe K003572162 No
Crook, A.O. [748] Zimbabwe K003572153 No
[G. E. Grout] [129] Zambia K003572137 No
Goldsmith, B. [148/55] Zimbabwe K003572161 No
Crook, A.O. [493] Zimbabwe K003572159 No
West, O. [3609] Zimbabwe K003572164 No
Rattray, J.M. [88] Zimbabwe K003572177 No
Scheepers, J.C. [630] South Africa K002946782 Yes
Brummitt, R.K. [11002] Malawi K003572112 Yes
Bingham, M.G. [523] Zimbabwe K003572150 No
Blair, I.J. [112] Sudan K003326185 Yes
Cormack, A.B. [234] Malawi K003572188 No
Cormack, A.B. [485] Malawi K003572187 No
Bredo [s.n.] Congo, Democratic Republic of the K003325018 Yes
Simon, B.K. [2221] Zimbabwe K003572155 No
Cormack, A.B. [231] Malawi K003572103 Yes
Erasmus, A. [2508] Zimbabwe K003572184 No
Hitchcock, A.S. [24320] Zimbabwe K003572181 No
Vesey-Fitzgerald, D. [1696] Zambia K003572133 No
Weber, O. [247] Zimbabwe K003572180 No
Macaulay [s.n.] Zambia K003572148 No
Cormack, A.B. [197] Malawi K003572098 Yes
Robinson, E.A. [186] Zambia K003572136 No
Taylor, C.B. [22] Nigeria K003816650 Yes
Trapnell, C.G. [1072] Zambia K003572135 No
Chiparawasha, O. [730] Zimbabwe K003572156 No
Lawrence, E. [386] Malawi K003572094 Yes
Angus, A. [2840] Zambia K003572127 No
Wilson, S.G. [26] Malawi K003572095 Yes
Blair, I.J. [81] Sudan K003326187 Yes
Pawek, J. [12819] Malawi K003572109 Yes
Cormack, A.B. [138] Malawi K003572099 Yes
Pettet, A. [J12] Sudan K003326182 Yes
Quarre [6283] Congo, Democratic Republic of the K003325021 Yes
Robinson, E.A. [823] Zambia K003572138 No
Jackson, G. [2016] Malawi K003572190 No
s.coll. [s.n.] Cameroon K003325017 Yes
Kwatha, R.B.; Tawakali, E.J. [43] Malawi K003572108 Yes
Brass, L.J. [17521] Malawi K003572116 Yes
Blair, I.J. [83] Sudan K003326186 Yes
Hepper, F.N. [1132] Nigeria K003816651 Yes
Crook, A.O. [500] Zimbabwe K003572160 No
Wilberforce, P.W. [115] Zambia K003572128 No
s.coll. [8406] Zambia K003572142 No
Davies, R. [1074] Zimbabwe K003572163 No
Hornby, A.J.W.; Cormack, A.B. [233] Malawi K003572189 No
Van Rensburg, H.J. [1694] Zambia K003572123 No
Gomes Sousa, A. [1414] Mozambique K003572093 Yes
Quarre, P. [4570] Congo, Democratic Republic of the K003325020 Yes
Cormack, A.B. [53] Malawi K003572104 Yes
Milne-Redhead, E.; Taylor, P.G. [9817] Tanzania K003362492 Yes
Brain, C.K. [4234] Zimbabwe K003572172 No
Cormack, A.B. [304] Malawi K003572101 Yes
Robinson, E.A. [6486] Zambia K003572122 No
Bingham, M.G. [10036] Zambia K003572120 No
Robinson, E.A. [741] Zambia K003572134 No
Jackson, J.K. [1138] Sudan K003326183 Yes
Fitt, R.H. [140] Zimbabwe K003572171 No
Cormack, A.B. [490] Malawi K003572105 Yes
Jackson, G. [291271] Nigeria K003816652 Yes
Germain, R. [5553] Congo, Democratic Republic of the K003325019 Yes
Walters, J.A.S. [2926] Zimbabwe K003572183 No
Paiva, J.; Silveira, P. [M771] Mozambique K003572092 Yes
Pettet, A. [s.n.] Sudan K003326189 Yes
Astle, W.L. [2361] Zambia K003572124 No
Stewart [125] Zambia K003572132 No
Whyte, A.; Johnston, H.H. [85] Malawi K003572096 Yes
Bingham, M.G. [10090] Zambia K003572119 No
Whyte, A. [s.n.] Malawi K003572191 No
Simon, B.K. [385] Zimbabwe K003572151 No
Lisowski, S. [516] Congo, Democratic Republic of the K003325022 Yes
Pawek, J. [8722] Malawi K003572111 Yes
Wingfield, R. [263] Tanzania K003362487 Yes
Pawek, J. [12818] Malawi K003572110 Yes
Walters, J.A.S. [2927] Zimbabwe K003572182 No
Rogers, F.A. [8004] Zambia K003572149 No
Guy, P. [2439] Zimbabwe K003572157 No
Brenan, J.P.M.; Greenway, P.J. [7881] Zambia K003572140 No
s.coll. [35] Zambia K003572141 No
Jack, R.W. [214] Zimbabwe K003572178 No
{Ch. Tiss; Tisserant, R.P.C.} [3374] Central African Republic K003325016 Yes

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