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Dinebra retroflexa
condensata
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Vilankulo, Inhambane, Mozambique
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Vilankulo, Inhambane, Mozambique
Photo: Sune Holt
Vilankulo, Inhambane, Mozambique
Photo: Sune Holt
Vilankulo, Inhambane, Mozambique
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| Common names: | Catstail vlei grass (English) |
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| Status: | Native |
| Description: |
Laxly tufted annual grass up to 80 cm tall. Culms usually straggling and ascending from a procumbent base, rarely erect, much branched and often rooting from the nodes. Leaves linear-lanceolate, 5–20 cm long, sharply pointed at the apex. Inflorescence dense, linear, 8–30 cm long, with crowded racemes 1.5–6 mm apart; racemes oblong to cuneate, 0.6–1.6 cm long, ascending when young, reflexing and deciduous when older. Spikelets 1–2-flowered, 5–8 mm long, closely overlapping on a narrowly green-winged rhachis; glumes narrowly elliptic, asymmetric, usually overlapping and obscuring the florets, glandular along the keel; lemmas narrowly ovate, 2–3 mm long, usually appressed-hairy along the lateral nerves and on the lower half of the back. |
| Notes: | |
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| Habitat: | In seasonally moist or wet soils along rivers, margins of pans and flood plains, in open woodland, grassland and disturbed ground at roadsides. |
| Altitude range: | 460 - 1370 m |
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| Worldwide distribution: | Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, Mozambique, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Botswana, Caprivi-Nambibia and South Africa (Mpumalanga, KwaZulu-Natal). |
| Mozambique distribution: | T,MS,GI,M |
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| Endemic status: | |
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| Spot characters: | Display spot characters for this species |
| Content last updated: | Friday 2 August 2019 |
| Literature: |
Chapano, C. (2002). A checklist of Zimbabwean grasses Southern African Botanical Diversity Network Report No. 16. Pretoria. Page 5. Chapano, C. & Mugarisanwa, N.H. (2003). Plants of the Matobo District National Herbarium and Botanic Garden, Zimbabwe Page 13. Cope, T.A. (1999). Poaceae Flora Zambesiaca 10(2) Pages 46 - 47. (Includes a picture). Da Silva, M.C., Izidine, S. & Amude, A.B. (2004). A preliminary checklist of the vascular plants of Mozambique. Southern African Botanical Diversity Network Report No. 30 Sabonet, Pretoria Page 133. Fish, L., Mashau, A.C., Moeaha, M.J. & Nembudani, M.T. (2015). Identification Guide to Southern African Grasses Strelitzia 36 South African National Biodiversity Institute, Pretoria Page 235. 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 102. Phiri, P.S.M. (2005). A Checklist of Zambian Vascular Plants Southern African Botanical Diversity Network Report No. 32 Page 129. Setshogo, M.P. (2005). Preliminary checklist of the plants of Botswana. Sabonet Report no. 37. Sabonet, Pretoria and Gaborone Page 135. 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. As Dinebra retroflexa Van Oudtshoorn, F.P. (1992). Grasses of South Africa Briza Publications, South Africa Page 206. As Dinebra retroflexa (Includes a picture). |
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