Andropogon mannii Hook. f.

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Synonyms: Andropogon flabellifer Pilg.
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Status: Native
Description:
Delicate caespitose perennial; culms 30–50 cm high, erect, unbranched, often reddish; internodes very delicate. Leaf sheaths distichous, compressed and ± keeled, glabrous; ligule a very short (c. 1 mm) minutely fringed membrane; laminas 2–17 cm × c. 0.2 mm wide, flat, loosely long-pilose, tapering to a fine point at the apex. Racemes 1–5 in terminal subdigitate groups, 3–7 cm long, slender and flexuous, long-exserted from the spatheoles, dark red; peduncles much longer than the racemes; internodes and pedicels filiform, almost glabrous or ciliate on both margins, the internodes shorter than the sessile spikelets. Spikelets similar, 4.5–8 mm long (the pedicelled slightly the longer), glabrous. Sessile spikelet 4.5–6 mm long, pilose at the base; inferior glume with a shallow median groove, glabrous, 1–3-mucronate at the apex; superior glume rounded on the back, usually with an awn 3–4.5 mm long; superior lemma bifid to the middle; awn geniculate, 6–16 mm long; anthers 2.5–3 mm long, straw-coloured. Pedicelled spikelet male, 5.5–8 mm long.
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Derivation of specific name: mannii: after Gustav Mann (1836-1916), British colonial representative in the Gulf of Guinea, who collected plants in that area.
Habitat: Growing in montane grassland and in shallow soil overlying rocks
Altitude range: 1540 - 2000 m
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Worldwide distribution: tropical West Africa and Sudan, southwards to southern Africa
Mozambique distribution: MS
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Literature:

Cope, T.A. (2002). Poaceae Flora Zambesiaca 10(4) Pages 66 - 67.

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 99.

Strugnell, A.M. (2006). A Checklist of the Spermatophytes of Mount Mulanje, Malawi Scripta Botanica Belgica 34 National Botanic Garden of Belgium Page 145.

Wursten, B., Timberlake, J. & Darbyshire, I. (2017). The Chimanimani Mountains: an updated checklist. Kirkia 19(1) Page 85.

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Copyright: Mark Hyde, Bart Wursten, Petra Ballings and Meg Coates Palgrave 2007-24

Hyde, M.A., Wursten, B.T., Ballings, P. & Coates Palgrave, M. (2024). Flora of Mozambique: Species information: Andropogon mannii.
https://www.mozambiqueflora.com/speciesdata/species.php?species_id=108600, retrieved 29 March 2024

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