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Eragrostis tenuifolia (A.Rich.) Hochst. ex Steud. — Habit: Herb. Habitat: LMDF; up to 2 800 m. Distribution: I. Voucher: N/A. Reference: Fries & Fries (1929)., 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 37, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.546.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/6550464, {"references":["Fries, R. E. & Fries, T. C. E. (1929) Beitrage zur Kenntnis der Flora des Kenia, Mt. Aberdare und Mt. Elgon. XII. Notizblatt des Koniglichen Botanischen Gartens und Museums zu Berlin 10 (96): 594 - 621. https: // doi. org / 10.2307 / 3994784"]}

Eragrostis atrovirens (Desf.) Trin. ex Steud. and E. tenuifolia (A. Rich.) Hochst. ex Steud. are new records for Taiwan. Eragrostis curvula (Schrad.) Nees has now become naturalized in low to high elevations. Descriptions, distribution maps, and ine-drawings are presented.

The African cereal streak disease (ACS) was further characterized as to transmissibility and cytological changes produced in cells of affected plants. Virus-like particles were regularly associated with diseased plants grown under field conditions, but no similar particles could be found in diseased plants of wheat, triticale, rice, Harpachne schimperi, Chloris pycnothrix, or Eragrostis tenuifolia grown in a growth cabinet set on an 18-h–6-h light–dark cycle and a corresponding 24 °C–17.5 °C temperature cycle. The efficiency of continuous transmission by Toya catilina Fenn. under growth-cabinet conditions was low, at 5%, 3%, and 5% for females, males, and nymphs, respectively.Except for the absence of recognizable virus-like particles in infected plants grown in the growth cabinet, the symptoms and cytological features of diseased plants grown under growth-cabinet and field conditions were similar. The main cytological features of diseased plants were as follows. (1) A dense, fine ground substance which filled many of the phloem cells was developed. (2) Large numbers of inclusion bodies, which were of globular and hexagonal-elongated forms, were formed. These forms are probably related. Virus-like particles were occasionally associated with the inclusions in diseased field-grown plants (3) Non-specific changes, such as may be induced by various types of pathogens, or are associated with senescence, e.g. phloem cell necrosis, abnormal callose-like cell wall deposits, and degenerative changes in the chloroplasts, were observed.