Bull. Soc. Hist. Nat. Autun 8: 374 (1895).- Type: Thollon 784, Gabon, Ogoué (holo- P!).
Apochaete thollonii (Franchet) Phipps, Kirkia 4:105(1964)
Regional litterature: FTA 10: 62 (1937); FI. Gabon 5:265 (I960); FWTA: 413 (1972); FTEA: 424 (1974); Fl. Chad (2013)
Description:
* Caespitose perennial with pubescent butt-sheaths of 0.3-1.5 m high. Culms erect withdense white hairs on the nodes. Leaves flat or convolutous, 5-30 cm long and 2-4 mm wide; ligule a fringe of hairs.
* Inflorescence a single bilateral spiciforme raceme, straight, 4-20 cm long with triads of shortly pedicelled spikelets; pedicels fused together, 3 mm long, hairy.
* Spikelets lanceolate, 22-35 mm long, yellow, callus punguent, 4 mm long, barbed, hairs pale, up to 3 mm long. Glumes shorter than spikelet, lanceolate, hairy with tubercle based hairs on the veins, lower glume 14-18 mm long, acute; upper glume 20-35 mm long, chartaceous, acuminate. Lower lemma with palea, male, similar to upper glume; upper lemma linear-lanceolate, 10-12 mm long, coriaceous, glabrous, bifid with a geniculate awn of 8-13 cm from the sinus. Anthers 3.5 mm long.
Distribution West Africa: Nigeria, Cameroon, Chad
Distribution world-wide: Gabon, Congo, DRC, Tanzania, and southern Africa.