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Panicum heterostachyum
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Nsumbu National Park; Nsama Distr., Northern Province
Photo: Nicholas Wightman
Nsumbu National Park; Nsama Distr., Northern Province
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| Status: | Native |
| Description: |
Annual with erect or ascending culms 20-80 cm. long; leaf lamina 8-12 cm. long and 10-25(40) mm. wide, ovate or narrowly-ovate, thin, acute to acuminate; panicle 4-15 cm. long, much-branched, branches rather stiff and bearing conspicuous glandular patches; spikelets 1.5 mm. long, asymmetrically ovate, sparsely to densely pubescent or hairy; inferior glume as long as spikelet, 3-nerved; superior glume 5-nerved; inferior lemma hyaline, 5-nerved, its palea moderately developed, sterile; superior lemma and palea membranous, not glossy, scaberulous. |
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| Habitat: | Bushland or savanna |
| Altitude range: | 30 - 1700 m |
| Flowering time: | Mar - May |
| Worldwide distribution: | Throughout tropical Africa |
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| Literature: |
Chapano, C. & Mamuto, M. (2003). Plants of the Chimanimani District National Herbarium and Botanic Garden, Zimbabwe Page 42. Clayton, W.D. (1989). Poaceae Flora Zambesiaca 10(3) Page 34. 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 107. Setshogo, M.P. (2005). Preliminary checklist of the plants of Botswana. Sabonet Report no. 37. Sabonet, Pretoria and Gaborone Page 142. 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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