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| Synonyms: |
Festuca minima A. Rich. Tripogon abyssinicus auct. non Nees ex Steud. Tripogon calcicolus A. Camus Tripogon mandarensis A. Camus Tripogon umbertianus A. Camus |
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| Status: | Native |
| Description: |
Small, slender, caespitose perennial; culms up to 28 cm tall, erect, wiry; basal leaf sheaths persistent, finally becoming coarsely fibrous; leaf lamina 1–9 cm × 0.5 mm, filiform, tightly folded or rarely flat, blunt at the apex.Racemes 2–8 cm long, slender, erect, straight or nearly so.Spikelets (3)5–10-flowered, (2.6)3.2–8 mm long, narrowly elliptic-oblong, overlapping; glumes 1-nerved, the inferior 0.8–2(2.7) mm long, lanceolate, broadened or lobed below the middle on one side, acute to acuminate, the superior (1.5)2–3.2 mm long, narrowly oblong, acute to subobtuse; callus dorsally appressed-villous, densely barbate in front at the base of the rhachilla internode; lemmas (1)1.6–2.3 mm long, narrowly elliptic-oblong, dorsally rounded, emarginate or bluntly 2-toothed at the apex, mucronate or shortly awned from between the teeth, the lateral nerves not or only slightly excurrent; mucro 0.1–1.2 mm long; anthers 3, 0.2–0.5 mm long.Caryopsis 0.8–1.2 mm long, narrowly lanceolate, obtusely trigonous in section. |
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| Habitat: | Rocky outcrops and hillsides; also on margins of rivers, dams and seasonal pans, in deciduous woodland and wooded or open grassland |
| Altitude range: (metres) | 90 - 1700 m |
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| Worldwide distribution: | Cape Verde Islands, Madagascar, tropical Africa, excluding the Congo River Basin, extending southwards to South Africa |
| Zimbabwe distribution: | N,W,C,E,S |
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| Spot characters: | Display spot characters for this species |
| Literature: |
Chapano, C. & Mugarisanwa, N.H. (2003). Plants of the Matobo District National Herbarium and Botanic Garden, Zimbabwe Page 36. Cope, T.A. (1999). Poaceae Flora Zambesiaca 10(2) Pages 29 - 31. (Includes a picture). 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 111. Setshogo, M.P. (2005). Preliminary checklist of the plants of Botswana. Sabonet Report no. 37. Sabonet, Pretoria and Gaborone Page 147. |
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