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| Synonyms: |
Crossotropis grandiglumis (Nees) Rendle Crossotropis grandiglumis var. minor Rendle Diplachne grandiglumis (Nees) Hack. Leptochloa grandiglumis Nees Trichoneura grandiglumis (Nees) Ekman var. minor (Rendle) Chippind. |
| Common names: | Small rolling grass (English) Tumble grass (English) |
| Frequency: | |
| Status: | Native |
| Description: |
Caespitose perennial; culms up to 60(85) cm tall, erect or ascending; leaf laminas (3)5–12(17) cm × (1)2–6 mm, linear, flat or convolute, acute at the apex and sometimes pungent.Inflorescence 8.5–40 cm long, ovate to broadly pyramidal, open; racemes 8–30, 4–20 cm long, stiff and straight, divaricate and often horizontally spreading from the axis, the spikelets distant by ± their own length.Spikelets 4.5–8.5 mm long, 3–7-flowered, often purplish; glumes caudate or subulate and tapering into an awn up to 2 mm long, exceeding the florets or rarely fractionally shorter, the inferior linear-lanceolate, the superior linear-oblong; lemmas 3.5–4.5 mm long, narrowly elliptic-oblong, appressed-pilose on the back; palea capitate-pilose. |
| Notes: | |
| Derivation of specific name: | grandiglumis: with large glumes |
| Habitat: | Dry grassland, grassland with scattered trees and in shady patches in woodland; also in disturbed and overgrazed areas |
| Altitude range: (metres) | 800 - 1600 m |
| Flowering time: | |
| Worldwide distribution: | Africa south of the Congo River Basin |
| Zimbabwe distribution: | N,W,C,E,S |
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| Endemic status: | |
| Red data list status: | |
| Insects associated with this species: | |
| 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 35. As Trichoneura grandiglumis grandiglumis Cope, T.A. (1999). Poaceae Flora Zambesiaca 10(2) Pages 43 - 45. (Includes a picture). Heath, A. & Heath, R. (2009). Field Guide to the Plants of Northern Botswana including the Okavango Delta Kew Publishing Page 444. (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. Roodt, V. (2015). Grasses & Grazers of Botswana and the surrounding savanna Struik Nature, South Africa Pages 218 - 219. (Includes a picture). Setshogo, M.P. (2005). Preliminary checklist of the plants of Botswana. Sabonet Report no. 37. Sabonet, Pretoria and Gaborone Page 147. Siebert, S. & Mössmer, M. (Editors) (2002). SABONET Southern Mozambique Expedition 2001; Provisional Plant Checklist of the Maputo Elephant Reserve (MER) and Licuati Forest Reserve (LFR) SABONET News 7(1) Page 28. Timberlake, J.R. & Childes, S.L. (2004). Biodiversity of the Four Corners Area: Technical Reviews Volume Two (Chapter 5-15) Appendix 5-1: Plant Checklist Occasional Publications in Biodiversity 15 Page 192. |
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