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| Synonyms: |
Chloris myriostachya Hochst. Chloris polystachya Roxb. |
| Common names: | Plume chloris (English) |
| Frequency: | |
| Status: | Native |
| Description: |
Caespitose perennial up to 150 cm tall, erect or ascending; leaf laminas flat or folded, 6–45 cm × 2–8 mm, tapering to a fine point.Inflorescence a compact purplish or yellowish feathery head of numerous racemes 6.5–13 cm long borne on an axis 6–18 cm long.Spikelets 2–4-flowered, 2–4-awned; inferior glume 1–1.5 mm long; superior glume 1.6–2 mm long; floret callus rounded; fertile lemma 1.5–2 mm long, elliptic in profile, pallid, sparsely ciliate on the margins and keel, the awn 9–11 mm long; 2nd–4th lemmas projecting from the side of the fertile lemma, progressively smaller, reduced to elliptic glabrous awned scales. |
| Notes: | |
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| Habitat: | In mopane and mixed dry woodlands on granite sands, often on termitaria, in Kalahari Sand wooded grassland, and on rocky hillsides and outcrops |
| Altitude range: (metres) | 60 - 1500 m |
| Flowering time: | |
| Worldwide distribution: | Angola, Tanzania, uganda, Kenya, Botswana, Malawi, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, South Africa, Arabia to southern India |
| 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. & Mamuto, M. (2003). Plants of the Chimanimani District National Herbarium and Botanic Garden, Zimbabwe Page 13. Cope, T.A. (1999). Poaceae Flora Zambesiaca 10(2) Pages 209 - 210. 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 101. Roodt, V. (2015). Grasses & Grazers of Botswana and the surrounding savanna Struik Nature, South Africa Pages 66 - 67. (Includes a picture). Setshogo, M.P. (2005). Preliminary checklist of the plants of Botswana. Sabonet Report no. 37. Sabonet, Pretoria and Gaborone Page 133. |
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