Urochloa subulifolia (Mez) Torres Gonz. & C.M.Morton

Urochloa subulifolia (Mez) Torres Gonz. & C.M.Morton View in CoL

Urochloa subulifolia (Mez) Torres Gonz.& C.M.Morton (2005) View in CoL 42. — Panicum subulifolium Mez (1904) View in CoL 135. — Brachiaria subulifolia (Mez) Clayton (1980) View in CoL 559. — Lectotype (collection designated by Clayton 1980,sheet designated here): Wahlenberg s.n. (lecto S [S-G-4511];isolecto S [S07-17144]), South Africa, Cap B. Spei, no date.

Brachiaria filifolia Stapf (1919) View in CoL 516. — Lectotype (designated here): Gossweiler 2001 (lecto K [K000282084]; isolecto BM [ BM000923179 ], COI [ COI00068962 ]), Angola, Benguella, country of Gangauellas and Ambel- las, Sept. 1905.

Distribution — Southern Democratic Republic of the Congo, Tanzania, Angola, Zambia, Malawi, Zimbabwe, and northern South Africa.

Nomenclatural notes — Clayton (1980) already indicated the holotype to be at S. This should be regarded as a lectotypification. However, at S there are two sheets, which do not seem to be elements of the same specimen and are to be regarded as duplicates. We have selected the richer material, S-G-4511, as the lectotype, thus refining the previous selection. The protologue of Brachiaria filifolia mentions three syntypes, Gossweiler 2001, Mundi s.n. and Colon . Herb. 2107. We have chosen the first as lectotype, since it has the richer material and there are duplicates in at least two other herbaria.