Eragrostis barrelieri Daveau

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Synonyms: Eragrostis gangetica sensu Jacobsen, non (Roxb.) Steud.
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Loosely caespitose annual; culms up to 40(60) cm tall, erect or ascending, branched or unbranched, glabrous at the nodes, with or without glandular pits below the nodes, these often coalescent into a ring; leaf sheaths glabrous, eglandular; ligule a line of hairs; leaf laminas 3–13 cm × 2.5–3.5 mm, linear, flat or involute, glabrous, eglandular.Panicle 7–16 cm long, oblong to ovate-oblong, open, stiffly branched, the spikelets evenly distributed on pedicels 1–3 mm long, these with one or two crateriform glands, the primary branches not in whorls, terminating in a fertile spikelet, glabrous in the axils.Spikelets 5–7(15) × 1.5–1.8 mm, narrowly oblong to linear, laterally compressed, 9–12(25)-flowered, the lemmas disarticulating from below upwards, the rhachilla persistent; glumes unequal, keeled, lanceolate in profile, scaberulous on the keel, eglandular, acute at the apex, the inferior 0.8–1.5 mm long, reaching to between 1/2 and 3/4 the way along the adjacent lemma, the superior 1.3–2.1 mm long, reaching to about the middle of the adjacent lemma; lemmas 1.7–2.3 mm long, keeled, oblong-lanceolate in profile, chartaceous with distinct lateral nerves, diverging from the rhachilla at less than 45°, those in opposite rows scarcely imbricate, the rhachilla ± visible between them, green to leaden-grey or reddish, scaberulous on the keel, eglandular, obtuse at the apex; palea persistent, glabrous on the flanks, the keels slender, wingless, scaberulous; anthers 3, 0.2–0.3 mm long.Caryopsis 0.6–1 mm long, elliptic-oblong, very rarely shorter and broader.
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Habitat: A weed of low to medium altitudes, often on agricultural research stations and in irrigation schemes; also on river banks and in disturbed ground at roadsides
Altitude range: (metres) 45 - 1300 m
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Worldwide distribution: tropical Africa, the Mediterranean region and southwest Asia
Zimbabwe distribution: N,W,C,E,S
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Literature:

Cope, T.A. (1999). Poaceae Flora Zambesiaca 10(2) Pages 138 - 139.

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 103.

Poilecot, P. (2007). Eragrostis species of Zimbabwe Éditions Quae,Versailles, France Pages 188 - 189. (Includes a picture).

Setshogo, M.P. (2005). Preliminary checklist of the plants of Botswana. Sabonet Report no. 37. Sabonet, Pretoria and Gaborone Page 136.


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Flora of Botswana: Eragrostis barrelieri
Flora of Caprivi: cultivated Eragrostis barrelieri
Flora of Mozambique: Eragrostis barrelieri
Flora of Zambia: Eragrostis barrelieri

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African Plants: A Photo Guide (Senckenberg): Eragrostis barrelieri
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Mansfeld World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops: Eragrostis barrelieri
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Copyright: Mark Hyde, Bart Wursten, Petra Ballings and Meg Coates Palgrave, 2002-24

Hyde, M.A., Wursten, B.T., Ballings, P. & Coates Palgrave, M. (2024). Flora of Zimbabwe: Species information: Eragrostis barrelieri.
https://www.zimbabweflora.co.zw/speciesdata/species.php?species_id=104670, retrieved 29 March 2024

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