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| Synonyms: |
Melinis nigricans Mez Rhynchelytrum nigricans (Mez) Stapf & C.E. Hubb. |
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| Description: |
Vigorous tufted annual. Culms 60–160 cm. high, (1.7)2–3.2 mm. in diam. Spikelets 3–4.5(5) mm. long, dark olive green, rarely green to straw-coloured, shortly hairy or rarely glabrous. Inferior glume 0.5–1(1.2) mm. long, separated from the superior by an internode 0.1–0.5 mm. long. Superior glume and inferior lemma membranous to subcoriaceous, not drawn out into a narrow beak. |
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| Derivation of specific name: | repens: creeping |
| Habitat: | On anthropogenic sites and embankments |
| Altitude range: | 300 - 1700 m |
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| Worldwide distribution: | Angola, DRC, Malawi, Mozambique, Tanzania, Zambia, Zimbabwe |
| Zambian distribution (Flora Zambesiaca): | N |
| Zambian distribution (Provinces): | N |
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| 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 354. Clayton, W.D. (1989). Poaceae Flora Zambesiaca 10(3) Pages 116 - 118. 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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