J. Agric. Trop. Bot. Appl. 1: 210 (1954).- Type: Jaeger 401, Sierra Leone (holo- P).
Anadelphia lomaensis (A. Camus) Jacques-Félix, J. Agric. Trop. Bot. Appli 1: 211 (1954).
Regional litterature: FWTA: 479 (1972); Poac. CI: 534, fig. (1995).
Description:
* Annuals or perennials of 0.2-0.40 m high. Culms erect, simple with 2 nodes. Leaves linear, flat or folded, 9-15 cm long and 1-3 mm wide, acute, glabrous, with scabrous margins; ligule a glabrous acute membrane of 2.5 mm long; sheaths auriculate, auricles merged with the ligule, the basal ones compressed and keeled.
* Inflorescence a narrow loose panicle of 12-20 cm long with 2-5 solitary racemes. Racemes 1.5-2.7 cm long, supported by purple spatheoles of 3-3.5 cm long; internodes linear, 2 mm long, ciliate at the base; pedicels similar, hairy in the lower part. Spikelets in pairs, one sessile and the other shortly pedicelled.
* Sessile spikelets lanceolate oblong, 3-3.5 mm long, glabrous with a truncate barbed callus of 0.3 mm long. Lower glume chartaceous, bidenticulate, with 2 winged scabrid keels; upper glume with an awn of 2-3 mm long. Upper lemma bifid halfway, the lobes acute, with a geniculate awn of 10-12 mm long. Pedicelled spikelets lanceolate, 5-6 mm long, mucronate and glabrous.
Distribution West Africa and world-wide: Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast.