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| Date: | 10 Feb 1988 |
| Recorder(s): | GL Maggs |
| Collector(s): | GL Maggs 218 |
| Determiner(s): | ES Klaassen |
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| Herbarium: | WIND |
| Habitat: | |
| Location: | Caprivi: 2 km north of Bukalo on road to Katima Mulilo - grassy malapo. |
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| Planted code: | Not planted |
| Country: | Namibia (Caprivi Strip) |
| Quarter Degree Square: | 1724D1 |
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| Altitude (metres): | 0 |
| Notes: | Notes: Erect, tufted, annual grass, up to 1 m when in flower. Culms erect to slightly geniculate, yellow-green but conspicuously purple-tinted at nodes, glabrous, slender. Leaf blade bright green, gradually tapering over a length of 12 - 20 cm, soft and tender, glabrous, normally expanded, rounded basally at collar. Ligule a band of dense, white, silky hairs, 1 mm high. Leaf sheath 6 cm long, glabrous, tightly clasping around culm. Inflorescence a compact spike, 40 - 70 mm long and 5 mm wide, borne on very slender erect, glabrous peduncle, up to 50 cm long. Spikelets densely arranged, ellipsoid, 2 mm long, without awn, but interspersed by long, stiff hairs, yellow-green but rapidly discolouring to dark purple; glumes pale green to pale pink-tinted. |
| Latitude, Longitude: | -17.625000, 24.625000 |
| Location Accuracy Code: | 4 |
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