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| Status: | Native |
| Description: |
Caespitose perennial up to 100 cm tall, erect or geniculately ascending; lowermost leaf sheaths splitting into persistent fibres; leaf laminas flat or involute, 2–15 cm × 2–5.5 mm.Inflorescence 6–13(19) cm long, comprising 2–7(14) scattered racemes, these (2)4–7(20) cm long, rigid, less than their own length apart on a rhachis 0.4–0.9 mm wide.Spikelets (2.8)3–4.4 mm long; lemma 1.2–2.2 mm long, ovate, softly pilose on the nerves and back; palea softly pilose on the back. |
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| Derivation of specific name: | africana: African |
| Habitat: | In dambo grassland and associated miombo on sandy soils, sandveld, and coastal plain swampy grassland |
| Altitude range: (metres) | 20 - 1520 m |
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| Worldwide distribution: | Madagascar, Namibia, Botswana, Malawi, Mozambique, Zambia, Zimbabwe |
| Zimbabwe distribution: | N,W,C,E,S |
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| Spot characters: | Display spot characters for this species |
| Literature: |
Cope, T.A. (1999). Poaceae Flora Zambesiaca 10(2) Pages 221 - 223. 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. 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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