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Polypogon schimperianus Cope

Authors/Creators

  • 1. Key Laboratory of Plant Germplasm Enhancement and Specialty Agriculture, Wuhan Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan 430074, Hubei, PR China & Center of Conservation Biology, Core Botanical Gardens, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan 430074, Hubei, PR China & Sino-Africa Joint Research Center (SAJOREC), Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan 430074, Hubei, PR China & zhouyd @ wbgcas. cn; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0001 - 6886 - 0662
  • 2. East African Herbarium, National Museums of Kenya, P. O. Box 45166, 00100 Nairobi, Kenya & gmwachala @ museums. or. ke; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0001 - 5334 - 0744
  • 3. Key Laboratory of Plant Germplasm Enhancement and Specialty Agriculture, Wuhan Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan 430074, Hubei, PR China & Center of Conservation Biology, Core Botanical Gardens, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan 430074, Hubei, PR China & Sino-Africa Joint Research Center (SAJOREC), Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan 430074, Hubei, PR China & guangwanhu @ wbgcas. cn; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0001 - 7728 - 7976
  • 4. Key Laboratory of Plant Germplasm Enhancement and Specialty Agriculture, Wuhan Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan 430074, Hubei, PR China & Center of Conservation Biology, Core Botanical Gardens, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan 430074, Hubei, PR China & Sino-Africa Joint Research Center (SAJOREC), Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan 430074, Hubei, PR China & qfwang @ wbgcas. cn; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0001 - 9143 - 8849 Authors for correspondence

Description

Polypogon schimperianus (Hochst. ex Steud.) Cope —

Habit: Herb.

Habitat: LMWF, LMDF, BZ, UMF, HZ, AZ; 1 400–4 000 m. Distribution: II.

Voucher: Naro Moru Track, near Met. Station, Alt. 3000 m, 19 Oct. 1979, Kuchar 12603 (EA).

References: Fries & Fries (1926), Bussmann (1993, 1994, 2006), Bussmann & Beck (1995a, 1999), Agnew (2013).

Notes

Published as part of Zhou, Ya-Dong, Mwachala, Geoffrey, Hu, Guang-Wan & Wang, Qing-Feng, 2022, Annotated checklist of the vascular plants of Mount Kenya, East Africa, pp. 1-108 in Phytotaxa 546 (1) on page 39, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.546.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/6550464

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Biodiversity

Collection code
EA
Event date
1979-10-19
Verbatim event date
1979-10-19
Scientific name authorship
Cope
Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Tracheophyta
Order
Poales
Family
Poaceae
Genus
Polypogon
Species
schimperianus
Taxon rank
species

References

  • Fries, R. E. & Fries, T. C. E. (1926) Beitrage zur Kenntnis der Flora des Kenia, Mt. Aberdare und Mt. Elgon. VIII. Notizblatt des Koniglichen Botanischen Gartens und Museums zu Berlin 9 (87): 485 - 522. https: // doi. org / 10.2307 / 3994370
  • Bussmann, R. W. (1993) The forest of Mt. Kenya (Kenya): A phytosociological approach with special reference to ecological problems. Ph. D. Thesis, Eberhard Karls Universitat Tubingen, Tubingen, 119 pp.
  • Bussmann, R. W. (1994) The forest of Mt. Kenya (Kenya): Vegetation, ecology, destruction and management of a tropical mountain forest ecosystem. Ph. D. dissertation, Universitat Bayreuth Startseite, Bayreuth, 252 pp.
  • Bussmann, R. W. (2006) Vegetation zonation and nomenclature of African Mountains: An overview. Lyonia 11 (1): 41 - 46.
  • Bussmann, R. W. & Beck, E. (1995 a) The forests of Mt. Kenya (Kenya), a phytosociological synopsis. Phytocoenologia 25 (4): 467 - 560. https: // doi. org / 10.1127 / phyto / 25 / 1995 / 467
  • Bussmann, R. W. & Beck, E. (1999) Vegetation units of Mt. Kenya Forest Reserve: Comment. In: Bitok (Ed.) Vegetations-okologosche, ethnobotanische und faunistische Beitrage uber Aquatorial-Afrika. Bayreuther Forum Okologie 64. Bayreuther Forum Okologie, Bayreuth, pp. 17 - 28.
  • Agnew, A. D. Q. (2013) Upland Kenya wild flowers and ferns, 3 rd edn. Nature Kenya Publications, Nairobi, 733 pp.