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| Synonyms: |
Panicum curvatum L. |
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| Status: | Native |
| Description: |
Perennial, geniculately ascending from a slender rhizome. Culms weak, 20–75 cm. high. Panicle open and ovate to contracted and linear, 3–11 cm. long, the branches ± wavy and pedicels distinct. Spikelets 2–3 mm. long, laterally compressed, obliquely oblong in profile, soon gaping, glabrous or with a few scurfy hairs. Inferior glume a tiny ovate scale, 0.2–0.5 mm. long. Superior glume saccate at the base, herbaceous, prominently ribbed |
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| Habitat: | A weedy species of damp shady places subject to disturbance |
| Altitude range: | Up to 660 m |
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| Worldwide distribution: | India, Madagascar, Sri Lanka, Eastern Africa from Kenya to Natal, Mozambique, Zimbabwe |
| Mozambique distribution: | Z,MS,GI,M |
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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 48. Clayton, W.D. (1989). Poaceae Flora Zambesiaca 10(3) Page 41. 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 109. 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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