Echinochloa haploclada (Stapf) Stapf

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Synonyms: Echinochloa aristifera (Peter) Robyns & Tournay
Panicum aristiferum Peter
Panicum haplocladum Stapf
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Status: Native
Description:
Tussocky perennial. Culms 30–300 cm. high, arising from a short oblique rhizome, often wiry; ligule absent or a line of hairs; leaf laminae occasionally marked with purple bars. Inflorescence 7–25 cm. long, lanceolate (occasionally linear); racemes 1–5 cm. long, densely crowded with appressed spikelets. Spikelets small, 1.5–2.5(3) mm. long, subglobose to elliptic, ± hispid. Inferior floret male, its lemma acute or with a short curved awn up to 5(15) mm. long. Superior lemma 1.5–2.3 mm. long.
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Habitat: Stream banks, dry river beds, alluvial flood plains and black clays
Altitude range: Up to 1500 m
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Worldwide distribution: Botswana, Malawi, Mozambique, Zambia, Zimbabwe northwards to DRC, Sudan and Ethiopia
Zambian distribution (Flora Zambesiaca): B,N,W,C,E,S
Zambian distribution (Provinces): N,E,C
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Literature:

Clayton, W.D. (1989). Poaceae Flora Zambesiaca 10(3) Page 56.

Jackson, G. & Wiehe, P.O. (1958). An Annotated Check List of Nyasaland Grasses The Government Printer, Zomba, Nyasaland Page 37.

Mapaura, A. & Timberlake, J. (eds) (2004). A checklist of Zimbabwean vascular plants Southern African Botanical Diversity Network Report No. 33 Sabonet, Pretoria and Harare Page 103.

Setshogo, M.P. (2005). Preliminary checklist of the plants of Botswana. Sabonet Report no. 37. Sabonet, Pretoria and Gaborone Page 135.

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Copyright: Mike Bingham, Annette Willemen, Bart Wursten, Petra Ballings and Mark Hyde, 2011-24

Bingham, M.G., Willemen, A., Wursten, B.T., Ballings, P. and Hyde, M.A. (2024). Flora of Zambia: Species information: Echinochloa haploclada.
https://www.zambiaflora.com/speciesdata/species.php?species_id=106670, retrieved 19 March 2024

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