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| Synonyms: |
Cymbopogon stolzii Pilg. Hyparrhenia claessensii Robyns Hyparrhenia formosa auct. non Stapf. |
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| Status: | Native |
| Description: |
Laxly caespitose perennial arising from a short rhizome clad in scaly white cataphylls; culms up to 60 cm high and 1–2 mm in diameter, slender, weakly ascending or untidily rambling. Leaf sheaths glabrous; leaf laminas 5–10(15) cm × 2–4 mm, usually rather thin, glabrous. False panicle 5–30 cm long, open and scanty, often only with 10–20 raceme-pairs but sometimes denser with more numerous pairs; spatheoles 2–3 mm long, narrowly lanceolate, reddish-brown, glabrous; peduncles 0.9–3 cm long, from half as long as to slightly longer than the spatheole, pilose with yellow or sometimes white hairs above; racemes 1–1.5 cm long, (4)6–7-awned per pair, exserted laterally with or without a sinuous hook in the peduncle, not or tardily deflexed; raceme-bases subequal and up to 0.5 mm long, or rather unequal with the superior up to 1.5 mm long, subterete, typically with a scarious rim up to 0.2 mm long at the summit, or rarely with a short appendage up to 0.5 mm long. Homogamous spikelets 4–5.5 mm long, a single pair at the base of the inferior raceme only, glabrous except for the ciliolate margins. Sessile spikelets 3.5–5 mm long; callus 0.4–0.7 mm long, oblong or sometimes square, broadly rounded at the apex; inferior glume lanceolate, glabrous or white-puberulous; awn 0.7–1.7 cm long, the column white-puberulous. Pedicelled spikelets 4–4.5 mm long, purple, glabrous, awnless or with a short awn-point up to 1.5 mm long; callus scarcely developed; pedicel-tooth obscure. |
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| Habitat: | Growing in the uplands in seasonal swamps, on forest margins and on grassy slopes, sometimes descending into the lowlands in deciduous bushland, wooded grassland and old fallow fields |
| Altitude range: | 1050 - 1500 m |
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| Worldwide distribution: | Eastern Africa from Ethiopia southwards to Malawi and then sporadically to South Africa, Malawi, Zambia, Zimbabwe |
| Zambian distribution (Flora Zambesiaca): | N,W |
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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 350. Cope, T.A. (2002). Poaceae Flora Zambesiaca 10(4) Pages 117 - 120. (Includes a picture). 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 105. |
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