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Caespitose perennial with short horizontal rhizome; culms stout, up to 40 cm tall, erect or ascending, branched above, the nodes not exposed (or if so, then glabrous); basal leaf sheaths glossy and glabrous, firmly chartaceous, terete, with sticky elliptic or subcircular sunken glands along the midline, persistent, eventually shedding their lamina; ligule a line of hairs; leaf laminas (2)3.5–9(13) cm × 2.5–5 mm, broadly linear, flat or with involute margins, glabrous or loosely pilose, pale green to glaucous, rather stiff and somewhat pungent, with sticky oblong or elliptic sunken glands along the midline and towards the margins.Panicle (3)5–7(10) cm long, ovate to elliptic, open, the spikelets evenly distributed on stout pedicels 1–2 mm long, the primary branches not in whorls, terminating in a fertile spikelet, glabrous in the axils, with sticky glands on the main axis, branches and pedicels.Spikelets 5–10 × c. 3 mm, ovate to ovate-oblong or oblong, lightly laterally compressed, 5–20-flowered, the florets disarticulating from the apex downwards, the rhachilla fragile; glumes subequal, 1.3–2 mm long, reaching to beyond the middle of the adjacent lemmas, lightly keeled, narrowly ovate in profile, scaberulous on the keel, acute at the apex; lemmas 1.8–2 mm long, keeled, oblong-ovate in profile, membranous with distinct lateral nerves, diverging from the rhachilla, those in opposite rows not imbricate, the rhachilla visible between them, green tinged with purple, dorsally asperulous, sometimes with sunken glands on the lateral nerves, obtuse at the apex; palea glabrous on the flanks, the keels slender, wingless, ciliate with tubercle-based hairs 0.4–0.6 mm long; anthers 3, 0.7–1 mm long.Caryopsis 0.7 mm long, elliptic. |
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| Habitat: | Hot dry areas, often in bare ground in mopane woodland; also on rocky slopes in stony soil and on Kalahari Sand |
| Altitude range: (metres) | 850 - 1000 m |
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| Worldwide distribution: | So far recorded only from Zimbabwe |
| Zimbabwe distribution: | N,W |
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| Endemic status: | Endemic |
| Red data list status: | Data deficient |
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| Spot characters: | Display spot characters for this species |
| Literature: |
Cope, T.A. (1999). Poaceae Flora Zambesiaca 10(2) Page 68. (Includes a picture). Golding, J.S. (ed.) (2002). Zimbabwe Plant Red Data List. Southern African Plant Red Data Lists. SABONET 14 Page 181. Mapaura, A. (2002). Endemic Plant Species of Zimbabwe. Kirkia 18(1) Page 131. 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 104. Poilecot, P. (2007). Eragrostis species of Zimbabwe Éditions Quae,Versailles, France Pages 64 - 65. (Includes a picture). |
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