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| Synonyms: |
Triraphis schlechteri Pilg. ex Stent |
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| Status: | Native |
| Description: |
Caespitose perennial with short erect rhizome; culms up to 150 cm tall, erect, tough, leafy throughout; leaf lamina up to 30 cm × 5 mm, usually flat, setaceously acuminate.Panicle 17–32 cm long, elliptic, loose; the branches slender, flexuous, densely spiculate towards the tip.Spikelets 4–6-flowered, 6–11 mm long excluding the awns, narrowly oblong; glumes somewhat unequal in length, the inferior 2.8–4 mm long, the superior 3.6–4.5 mm long; lemmas lanceolate, the body c. 5 mm long; awns 5–7 mm long; anthers 0.8–1 mm long. |
| Notes: | |
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| Habitat: | In dry open woodland and scrub, on Kalahari Sand and on basic sandy soils |
| Altitude range: | Up to 1480 m |
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| Worldwide distribution: | Botswana, Namibia, Mozambique, South Africa, Tanzania, Zambia, Zimbabwe |
| Mozambique distribution: | GI,M |
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| Spot characters: | Display spot characters for this species |
| Literature: |
Cope, T.A. (1999). Poaceae Flora Zambesiaca 10(2) Pages 21 - 22. (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 111. Setshogo, M.P. (2005). Preliminary checklist of the plants of Botswana. Sabonet Report no. 37. Sabonet, Pretoria and Gaborone Page 147. 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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