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| Synonyms: |
Enneapogon filifolius (Pilg.) Stapf ex Garabedian Pappophorum filifolium Pilg. Pappophorum scoparium (Stapf) Chiov. Pappophorum setifolium Hochst. |
| Common names: | Bottlebrush grass (English) |
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| Status: | Native |
| Description: |
A perennial, with a short horizontal rhizome, usually inconspicuously pubescent all over, often appearing glabrous. Culm 20-80 cm. tall, few-6-noded, very slender, wiry, arising from a bulbous base, usually branched a few cm. above the base, usually erect, rarely geniculately ascending. Leaf-sheaths rather tight, finely striate, the lowermost long-persistent. Leaf-laminae 5-20(25) x 0·1-0·3 cm., almost always convolute, filiform, very rarely expanded, tapering to a fine point, somewhat rigid, obliquely ascending to erect, usually smooth. Panicle 1.5-12 cm. long, dense, spike-like, compact, rarely interrupted, light to dark grey. Spikelets 3.5-4.5 mm. long, 3-flowered, crowded. Glumes slightly unequal, scattered-pilose, subacute; the inferior 2.5-5 mm. long, 3-7-nerved, ovate; the superior 3.4-7 mm. long, 3-6-nerved, oblong. Fertile lemma (the inferior) c. 2 mm. long (excluding the awns), dorsally villous; awns 2-3.5 mm. long, plumose beyond the middle. Anthers (0.8)1.2-2.2 mm. long. |
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| Habitat: | Mostly in Colophospermum mopane woodland, but also in scrub and open grassland, growing in arid conditions, amongst limestone pebbles, on basaltic soil, also on sandy hill-slopes and along roads |
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| Worldwide distribution: | south-western Africa, southern Angola, Botswana, Ethiopia, Mozambique, South Africa, Zimbabwe |
| Mozambique distribution: | GI |
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| Spot characters: | Display spot characters for this species |
| Literature: |
Launert, E. (1971). Poaceae Flora Zambesiaca 10(1) Page 148. 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. Roodt, V. (2015). Grasses & Grazers of Botswana and the surrounding savanna Struik Nature, South Africa Pages 98 - 99. (Includes a picture). Setshogo, M.P. (2005). Preliminary checklist of the plants of Botswana. Sabonet Report no. 37. Sabonet, Pretoria and Gaborone Page 136. Siebert, S. & Mössmer, M. (Editors) (2002). SABONET Southern Mozambique Expedition 2001; Provisional Plant Checklist of the Maputo Elephant Reserve (MER) and Licuati Forest Reserve (LFR) SABONET News 7(1) Page 28. |
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