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Eragrostis podotricha Chiov. |
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Caespitose annual; culms up to 80 cm tall, erect or ascending, branched or unbranched, glabrous at the nodes, with a ring of elongated glands just below the nodes; leaf sheaths usually pilose with tubercle-based hairs, rarely glabrous, with or without glandular pits above; ligule a line of hairs; leaf laminas 4–15 cm × 2–5 mm, linear, flat, thinly pilose or glabrous, eglandular.Panicle 8–25 cm long, lanceolate to ovate, open, the spikelets evenly distributed on pedicels 1–2 mm long, the primary branches (or at least the lowermost) whorled, terminating in a fertile spikelet, glabrous or pilose in the axils, eglandular (rarely with scattered glandular pits).Spikelets 3–5(8) × c. 1 mm, linear-oblong, lightly laterally compressed, 5–12(14)-flowered, the lemmas disarticulating from below upwards, the rhachilla persistent below but fragile above; glumes subequal, 0.6–1.5 mm long, lightly keeled, lanceolate in profile, scaberulous on the keel, subacute at the apex, the inferior reaching to between 1/2 and 2/3 the way along the adjacent lemma, the superior to 1/3 the way; lemmas 1.1–1.5 mm long, lightly keeled, narrowly oblong-elliptic in profile, membranous but with obscure lateral nerves, ± appressed to the rhachilla, those in opposite rows not imbricate, the rhachilla visible between them, grey-green, glabrous or minutely asperulous above, broadly rounded to truncate at the apex; palea persistent, glabrous on the flanks, the keels slender, wingless, minutely scaberulous; anthers 3, 0.6–0.9 mm long.Caryopsis 0.5–0.6 mm long, elliptic |
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| Habitat: | Hot dry country, in short grassland and wooded grassland on sandy soil; also in disturbed ground at roadsides |
| Altitude range: (metres) | 300 - 1300 m |
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| Worldwide distribution: | Botswana, Kenya, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Zambia, Zimbabwe |
| Zimbabwe distribution: | N,W,C,E,S |
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| Spot characters: | Display spot characters for this species |
| Literature: |
Chapano, C. & Mamuto, M. (2003). Plants of the Chimanimani District National Herbarium and Botanic Garden, Zimbabwe Page 24. Chapano, C. & Mugarisanwa, N.H. (2003). Plants of the Matobo District National Herbarium and Botanic Garden, Zimbabwe Page 15. Cope, T.A. (1999). Poaceae Flora Zambesiaca 10(2) Page 131. Heath, A. & Heath, R. (2009). Field Guide to the Plants of Northern Botswana including the Okavango Delta Kew Publishing Page 474. (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 104. Poilecot, P. (2007). Eragrostis species of Zimbabwe Éditions Quae,Versailles, France Pages 176 - 177. (Includes a picture). Setshogo, M.P. (2005). Preliminary checklist of the plants of Botswana. Sabonet Report no. 37. Sabonet, Pretoria and Gaborone Page 137. 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 189. |
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