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| Synonyms: |
Eriochloa borumensis auct. non Hackel |
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| Status: | Native |
| Description: |
Tufted perennial. Culms 60–120 cm. high, robust. Inflorescence of 6–many racemes, these 2–7 cm. long, bearing spikelets in pairs or on short appressed side branchlets, the rhachis triquetrous and puberulous or pubescent, rarely pilose. Spikelets 3–4 mm. long, narrowly ovate, appressedly pubescent. Inferior glume absent; superior glume acuminate or with an awn-point up to 1 mm. long. Inferior floret with a palea. Superior lemma usually with a mucro up to 0.5 mm. long. |
| Notes: | |
| Derivation of specific name: | stapfiana: after Dr. Otto Stapf (1857-1933), Austrian-born British botanist, taxonomist and author of many plant taxa. He was Curator at the Kew Royal Botanic Gardens, Fellow of the Linnean Society and the Royal Society. |
| Habitat: | Marshy places and by water |
| Altitude range: | Up to 100 m |
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| Worldwide distribution: | Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, S. Africa, Tanzania, Zimbabwe |
| Mozambique distribution: | N,Z,MS,GI,M |
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| Insects associated with this species: | |
| Spot characters: | Display spot characters for this species |
| Literature: |
Clayton, W.D. (1989). Poaceae Flora Zambesiaca 10(3) Pages 85 - 86. Jackson, G. & Wiehe, P.O. (1958). An Annotated Check List of Nyasaland Grasses The Government Printer, Zomba, Nyasaland Page 41. As Eriochloa borumensis 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 104. |
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