Taxonomic novelties in Central African grasses (Poaceae), Paniceae 2

Abstract

Background and aims – Within the framework of the renewed production of the Flore d’Afrique centrale, the grasses are being studied to accomplish their treatment. Taxonomic novelties, or other information not deemed appropriate in a Flora, are published in a series of separate papers of which this is the second.Methods – Standard herbarium techniques have been applied to material from BR, BRLU, GENT, P and WAG. Some types were studied through the JSTOR Global Plant facility.Key results – Novelties are presented for the genera Anthephora, Cenchrus (incl. Pennisetum) and Setaria. Three new combinations are made. Lectotypes are designated for five names. Ten names are treated as new synonyms of accepted species names, with explanations of the new taxonomic concepts applied.

A question of rite—pearl millet consumption at Nok culture sites, Nigeria (second/first millennium BC)

“…Pennisetum glaucum (L.) R.Br.) in the archaeobotanical assemblages (following recent molecular phylogenetic and taxonomic studies, the valid name of pearl millet is C. americanus (Sosef 2019;POWO 2022)) recovered from archaeological sites associated with each (D'Andrea et al 2001;D'Andrea and Casey 2002;Klee et al 2004;Fuller et al 2007;Kahlheber et al 2009). This is of considerable interest, given that the four cultural traditions developed far from each other in distinctly different ecological circumstances: Tichitt in the southwestern Sahara; Kintampo in the forest-savanna ecotone; Gajiganna in the floodplains of the Lake Chad area; and Nok in the Guinean woodlands of Nigeria.…”