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Lintonia nutans
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Malilangwe Reserve, Chiredzi
Photo: Chrissy Wenham
Malilangwe Reserve, Chiredzi
Photo: Chrissy Wenham
Malilangwe Reserve, Chiredzi
Photo: Chrissy Wenham
Malilangwe Reserve, Chiredzi
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| Synonyms: |
Joannegria melicoides (Chiov.) Chiov. Lintonia nutans var. melicoides (Chiov.) Chiov. Negria melicoides Chiov. |
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| Frequency: | |
| Status: | Native |
| Description: |
Shortly stoloniferous perennial tussock grass up to 100 cm tall, erect or geniculately ascending; lower leaf sheaths compressed and keeled; leaf laminas (4)7–20(30) cm × 2–6 mm.Racemes (1)2–4, digitate or subdigitate, 3–10 cm long.Spikelets 4–10-flowered, 5–10 mm long, cuneate, pale green or straw-coloured, usually tinged with purple; glumes 1-nerved, lightly keeled, the inferior 2.9–3.3 mm long, narrowly lanceolate and acuminate, the superior 3.5–3.8 mm long, oblong and obtuse; lemmas 4.3–7 mm long (excluding the awn), broadly elliptic to obovate; awn 2.5–8(11) mm long, straight or outwardly curved or flexuous from a stout base; palea ciliate on the keels, puberulous on the back; anthers 1–2.5 mm long |
| Notes: | |
| Derivation of specific name: | nutans: nodding. |
| Habitat: | On heavy black clay soils and black basaltic soil, often in Acacia or mopane woodlands and grassland, occasionally along roadsides |
| Altitude range: | 50 - 1000 m |
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| Worldwide distribution: | Botswana, Ethiopia, Kenya, Mozambique, Somalia, South Africa, Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, Zimbabwe |
| Mozambique distribution: | M |
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| Endemic status: | |
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| Insects associated with this species: | |
| Spot characters: | Display spot characters for this species |
| Content last updated: | Sunday 8 August 2021 |
| Literature: |
Cope, T.A. (1999). Poaceae Flora Zambesiaca 10(2) Pages 205 - 207. (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 106. Setshogo, M.P. (2005). Preliminary checklist of the plants of Botswana. Sabonet Report no. 37. Sabonet, Pretoria and Gaborone Page 140. |
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African Plants: A Photo Guide (Senckenberg): Lintonia nutansAfrican Plant Database: Lintonia nutans
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Mansfeld World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops: Lintonia nutans
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