Melinis longiseta
longiseta
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Shangani Ranch, Mahwe Section
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Shangani Ranch, Mahwe Section
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| Status: | Native |
| Description: |
Tufted to loosely caespitose perennial. Culms 20–100 cm. high, geniculately ascending or erect. Leaf laminae 4-12 cm. long, 4-9 mm. wide, flat. Panicle 4–17 cm. long, narrowly oblong to linear. Pedicels with a few long hairs. Spikelets 2.3–3.8(4.2) mm. long, usually ovate.. Inferior glume 0.6–1.4 mm. long, inconspicuously 1-nerved, ovate, separated from the superior by an internode 0.3–0.5 mm. long; superior glume 5-nerved, subcoriaceous to coriaceous, emarginate to bilobed, awned, densely hairy on the keel, glabrous on the sides. Inferior floret male, its lemma 5-nerved, similar to the superior glume but glabrous on the keel and hairy on the sides, the palea scabrous on its keels. |
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| Notes: | Leaf laminae 4–12 cm. long, 4–9 mm. wide. Spikelets 2.3–3.8(4.2) mm. long, usually ovate. |
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| Habitat: | Sandy ground in open Brachystegia woodland |
| Altitude range: (metres) | 1000 - 2000 m |
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| Worldwide distribution: | Angola, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Sudan, Tanzania, Zambia, Zimbabwe |
| FZ divisions: | N |
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| Literature: |
Chapano, C. & Mamuto, M. (2003). Plants of the Chimanimani District National Herbarium and Botanic Garden, Zimbabwe Page 38. Chapano, C. & Mugarisanwa, N.H. (2003). Plants of the Matobo District National Herbarium and Botanic Garden, Zimbabwe Page 25. Clayton, W.D. (1989). Poaceae Flora Zambesiaca 10(3) Pages 119 - 120. 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. |
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