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| Status: | Native |
| Description: |
Caespitose perennial up to 110 cm tall; lowermost leaf sheaths broad and stiffly chaffy (rather like wood shavings); leaf laminas 6–30 cm × up to 6 mm, flat or lightly involute.Raceme 7–21 cm long, straight or curved in a gentle arc or flat spiral, mostly barbate at the base.Superior glume 5–7.2 mm long; lowermost lemma (2.5)3–3.5 mm long, oblong-elliptic, ciliate on the nerves and keel, densely pubescent on the back, awned from below the obtusely cuspidate apex; 2nd lemma 3–3.5 mm long, lanceolate, ciliate on the nerves and keel, densely pubescent to pilose on the back, produced into a triangular tongue 0.3–0.5 mm long above the insertion of the awn; fertile lemma 3.3–4.2 mm long, ovate, long-ciliate on the marginal nerves with hairs 2–2.5 mm long, glabrous on the back, with an awn 4.5–5.5 mm long |
| Notes: | |
| Derivation of specific name: | concinnum: neat, elegant |
| Habitat: | In rocky areas in montane grassland, in dambo and swampy grassland. |
| Altitude range: | 1000 - 1800 m |
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| Worldwide distribution: | Angola, Malawi, Mozambique, Zambia, Zimbabwe, South Africa, Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda. |
| Mozambique distribution: | MS |
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| Spot characters: | Display spot characters for this species |
| Literature: |
Chapano, C. & Mamuto, M. (2003). Plants of the Chimanimani District National Herbarium and Botanic Garden, Zimbabwe Page 18. Cope, T.A. (1999). Poaceae Flora Zambesiaca 10(2) Pages 228 - 229. 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 101. Wursten, B., Timberlake, J. & Darbyshire, I. (2017). The Chimanimani Mountains: an updated checklist. Kirkia 19(1) Page 85. |
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