Melinis tenuissima Stapf

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Status: Native
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Straggling perennial. Culms (28)50–110(140) cm. high, ascending. Leaf laminae (1.5)2– 8(10) cm. long, 3–6 mm. wide, flat, glabrous or rarely pubescent. Panicle 10–20 cm. long, broadly ovate, delicately branched. Pedicels smooth, with a few long hairs towards the apex. Spikelets 1.1–1.5 mm. long, narrowly ovate to oblong. Inferior glume an obscure rim up to 0.1 mm. long, inserted close to the superior; superior glume 5-nerved, thinly membranous, irregularly dentate, glabrous to sparsely hairy. Inferior floret barren without a palea, its lemma 3–5-nerved, emarginate or irregularly dentate, equalling the superior glume but narrower and with an awn (1.5)4–10 mm. long.
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Habitat: Grassland and Brachystegia woodland, very often at anthropogenic sites and near river margins
Altitude range: 1000 - 2000 m
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Worldwide distribution: Tropical Africa
Zambian distribution (Flora Zambesiaca): N,W,E
Zambian distribution (Provinces): E,W
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Literature:

Chapano, C. & Mamuto, M. (2003). Plants of the Chimanimani District National Herbarium and Botanic Garden, Zimbabwe Page 38.

Clayton, W.D. (1989). Poaceae Flora Zambesiaca 10(3) Page 124.

Jackson, G. & Wiehe, P.O. (1958). An Annotated Check List of Nyasaland Grasses The Government Printer, Zomba, Nyasaland Pages 48 - 49.

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 106.

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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: Melinis tenuissima.
https://www.zambiaflora.com/speciesdata/species.php?species_id=107460, retrieved 19 March 2024

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