Kirkia 5: 249 (1966).- Type: Baldwin 9757, Guinea, Macenta (holo- K, iso BM, B, MO).
Loudetia baldwinii C.E.Hubbard, Kew Bull. 4: 356 (1949).
Regional litterature: FWTA: 415 (1972); Fl. Guinée: 465 (2009).
Description:
* Loosely tufted perennial of 50-70 cm high. Culms erect to geniculately ascending. Leaves flat or involute, 10-13 cm long and 2.5-3.5 mm wide, attenuate; sheaths scaberulous; ligule a fringe of hairs.
* Inflorescence in an open panicle of 8-13 cm long and 2.5-5 cm broad. branches abruptly recurved near tip, scaberulous, glabrous. Spikelets in triads deciduous in a cluster with pedicels. Pedicels filiform, subequal and fused to each other below, 0.5-2 mm long, ciliate.
* Spikelets lanceolate, 4-5 mm long. Lower lemma 7-nerved; upper lemma sparsely pubescent with an oblong truncate callus; callus 0.2 mm long; pilose; hairy in 2 tufts; obtuse. Glumes similar, lanceolate, chartaceous; dark brown; lower glume 3-3.5 mm long, hairy in lines along margins with tubercle-based white hairs, acuminate; upper glume, 3-4 mm long, hairy on veins along margins with tubercle-based hairs, acuminate.
Lower lemma similar to upper glume, 3-4 mm long; upper lemma elliptic, 2.5-3 mm long, coriaceous, pubescent all along, tip 2 -fid with lanceolate lobes and with a curved awn from the sinus of 3.5-5 mm long without a column. Anthers 3, 2-2.5 mm long. Stigmas 2.
Distribution West Africa and world-wide: Guinea.