J.Agric. Trop. Bot. Appl. 7: 408 (1960).- Type: Pobeguin 2035, Tonba, Guinea (holo- P).
Loudetiopsis pobeguinii (Jacques Félix) Clayton, Kew Bull. 21: 123 (1967);
Danthoniopsis pobeguinii Jac-Fél., Rev. Bot. Appliq. 30: 423 (1950) without latin descr.
Regional litterature: FWTA: 414 (1972); Pl. Vasc. Guiné-Bissau: 169 (2006); Fl. Guinea Bissau: 139 (2008); Fl. Guinée: 465 (2009); Pl. Burkina Faso: 97 (2012).
Description:
* Caespitose annual or sometimes perennial of 30-60 cm high. Leaves linear to lanceolate, flat or 6-10 cm long and 3-5 mm wide; ligule a fringe of hairs.
* Inflorescence a dense elliptic panicle of 12-25 cm long and 5-6 cm wide with 40 or more triads on verticillate branches. Spikelets in threes with filiform subequal pedicels of 0.5-1 mm long.
* Spikelets lanceolate, 5-6 mm long; callus 0.5 mm long, pubescent with white hairs, truncate. Glumes chartaceous, brown; lower glume lanceolate, 3-3.5 mm long, setose and hairy on veins with long tubercle-based hairs, acute; upper glume lanceolate, 5 mm long, puberulous, acute. Lower lemma similar to upper glume; upper lemma creamy lanceolate, 4-5 mm long, coriaceous, pubescent; lobes of upper lemma awned, with a tuft of hairs on each lobe; principal awn from a sinus, geniculate, 10-16 mm long with twisted column; lateral awns arising on apex of lobes, 4-5 mm long. Anthers 3; 1.5 mm long.
Distribution West Africa and world-wide: Senegal, Guinea Bissau, Guinea, Burkina Faso.