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| Status: | Native |
| Description: |
Rhizomatous perennial. Culms 30–180 cm. high, thick, spongy, decumbent and rooting below. Panicle 4–30 cm. long, cylindrical. Spikelets dorsally compressed, 2.5–3.5 mm. long, plumply elliptic, light green, glabrous, obtuse to subacute. Inferior glume subrotund, c. 1/4 length of spikelet. |
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| Derivation of specific name: | africana: African |
| Habitat: | Shallow water and flood plain grassland |
| Altitude range: (metres) | 650 - 1500 m |
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| Worldwide distribution: | Throughout tropical Africa |
| Zimbabwe distribution: | N,C |
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| Spot characters: | Display spot characters for this species |
| Literature: |
Clayton, W.D. (1989). Poaceae Flora Zambesiaca 10(3) Pages 41 - 43. (Includes a picture). Jackson, G. & Wiehe, P.O. (1958). An Annotated Check List of Nyasaland Grasses The Government Printer, Zomba, Nyasaland Page 56. 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 109. Setshogo, M.P. (2005). Preliminary checklist of the plants of Botswana. Sabonet Report no. 37. Sabonet, Pretoria and Gaborone Page 143. |
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