Rhytachne rottboellioides Desv.

Images: None on this site.

Specimen citations: Display citations Detailed records: Display species records QDS maps by: Google Maps Point records by Google Maps

Species details: Click on each item to see an explanation of that item (Note: opens a new window)

Synonyms: Rhytachne benguellensis Rendle
Rhytachne mannii Stapf
Rhytachne rottboellioides var. guineensis A. Camus & Schnell
Rottboellia caespitosa Baker
Rottboellia rhytachne Hack.
Rottboellia setifolia K. Schum.
Common names:
Frequency:
Status: Native
Description:
Slender to robust caespitose perennial; culms up to 100 cm high. Leaf laminas 5–25 cm long, setaceous, involute. Racemes 2–20 cm long, the internodes all ± equalling the spikelets, glabrous. Sessile spikelet 2–5(6) mm long, narrowly ovate to oblong; inferior glume variously rugose or muricate, rarely almost smooth, obtuse, acuminate or bidenticulate at the apex, with or without an awn up to 5 mm long; superior glume awnless or with an awn up to 5 mm long. Pedicelled spikelet suppressed or almost so, represented by a curved pedicel as long as the sessile spikelet, sometimes surmounted by an awn up to 5 mm long.
Type location:
Notes:
Derivation of specific name:
Habitat: Growing in swamps and seasonally wet grassland
Altitude range: 55 - 1500 m
Flowering time:
Worldwide distribution: Madagascar, Malawi, Mozambique, South Africa, South America, West Indies, Zambia, Zimbabwe
Zambian distribution (Flora Zambesiaca): B,N,W,C
Zambian distribution (Provinces): N,W
Growth form(s):
Endemic status:
Red data list status:
Insects associated with this species:
Spot characters: Display spot characters for this species
Literature:

Burrows, J.E. & Willis, C.K. (eds) (2005). Plants of the Nyika Plateau Southern African Botanical Diversity Network Report No. 31 SABONET, Pretoria Page 361. (Includes a picture).

Chapano, C. & Mamuto, M. (2003). Plants of the Chimanimani District National Herbarium and Botanic Garden, Zimbabwe Page 48.

Cope, T.A. (2002). Poaceae Flora Zambesiaca 10(4) Pages 170 - 171. (Includes a picture).

Jackson, G. & Wiehe, P.O. (1958). An Annotated Check List of Nyasaland Grasses The Government Printer, Zomba, Nyasaland Page 56. As Rhytachne rottboelliodes

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 109.

Wursten, B., Timberlake, J. & Darbyshire, I. (2017). The Chimanimani Mountains: an updated checklist. Kirkia 19(1) Page 86.

Other sources of information about Rhytachne rottboellioides:

Our websites:

Flora of Caprivi: cultivated Rhytachne rottboellioides
Flora of Malawi: Rhytachne rottboellioides
Flora of Mozambique: Rhytachne rottboellioides
Flora of Zimbabwe: Rhytachne rottboellioides

External websites:

African Plants: A Photo Guide (Senckenberg): Rhytachne rottboellioides
African Plant Database: Rhytachne rottboellioides
BHL (Biodiversity Heritage Library): Rhytachne rottboellioides
EOL (Encyclopedia of Life): Rhytachne rottboellioides
GBIF (Global Biodiversity Information Facility): Rhytachne rottboellioides
Google: Web - Images - Scholar
iNaturalist: Rhytachne rottboellioides
IPNI (International Plant Names Index): Rhytachne rottboellioides
JSTOR Plant Science: Rhytachne rottboellioides
Mansfeld World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops: Rhytachne rottboellioides
Plants of the World Online: Rhytachne rottboellioides
Tropicos: Rhytachne rottboellioides
Wikipedia: Rhytachne rottboellioides


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: Rhytachne rottboellioides.
https://www.zambiaflora.com/speciesdata/species.php?species_id=109180, retrieved 28 March 2024

Site software last modified: 10 May 2018 10:51pm
Terms of use