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| Status: | Native |
| Description: |
Annual up to 60 cm tall, slender, erect or geniculately ascending; leaf laminas 1–4 cm × 2–5 mm, lanceolate.Inflorescence 2–10 cm long, well exserted from the uppermost leaf sheath, the spikelets densely packed and appressed to the rhachis.Spikelets 2–2.4 mm long with a stipitiform callus 0.3–0.7 mm long; glumes minutely hispidulous, with a slender, often pallid, erect awn, that of the inferior glume 20–35 mm long, that of the superior 11–17 mm long.Caryopsis terete. |
| Notes: | |
| Derivation of specific name: | leptopus: thin- or slender-stalked or -footed |
| Habitat: | In small scattered colonies in woodland openings, on sand dunes near lakes, on river banks and along roads, usually in sandy or silty soil, locally frequent |
| Altitude range: (metres) | 350 - 1520 m |
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| Worldwide distribution: | Angola, Botswana, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Tanzania, Zambia, Zimbabwe |
| Zimbabwe distribution: | N,W,C |
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| Spot characters: | Display spot characters for this species |
| Literature: |
Cope, T.A. (1999). Poaceae Flora Zambesiaca 10(2) Pages 252 - 253. (Includes a picture). Jackson, G. & Wiehe, P.O. (1958). An Annotated Check List of Nyasaland Grasses The Government Printer, Zomba, Nyasaland Page 54. 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 108. Setshogo, M.P. (2005). Preliminary checklist of the plants of Botswana. Sabonet Report no. 37. Sabonet, Pretoria and Gaborone Page 142. |
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