Panicum monticola Hook. f.

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Castleburn Forest, Vumba

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Status:	Native
Description:	Perennial grass with slender decumbent culms 30-100 cm. Leaf laminae 7–15 cm. long and 5–25 mm. wide, lanceolate to narrowly ovate, acuminate. Inflorescence a sparsely branched panicle, secondary branches often poorly developed, panicle 10–25 cm. long, ovate to oblong. Spikelets 2.2–3.5 mm. long, ovate to ovate-lanceolate, maroon to purple tinged; ; inferior glume 1/4–1/2(2/3) the length of the spikelet, 0–1-nerved; superior glume 5-nerved; inferior lemma 5-nerved, sterile, its palea absent or rudimentary; superior lemma and palea pallid, glossy.
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Derivation of specific name:	monticola: mountain loving.
Habitat:	In shaded submontane forest.
Altitude range: (metres)	600 - 2000 m
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Worldwide distribution:	Throughout tropical Africa
Zimbabwe distribution:	E
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Images last updated:	Saturday 22 July 2006
Literature:	Burrows, J.E. & Willis, C.K. (eds) (2005). Plants of the Nyika Plateau Southern African Botanical Diversity Network Report No. 31 SABONET, Pretoria Page 357. Chapano, C. & Mamuto, M. (2003). Plants of the Chimanimani District National Herbarium and Botanic Garden, Zimbabwe Page 42. Clayton, W.D. (1989). Poaceae Flora Zambesiaca 10(3) Page 39. Jackson, G. & Wiehe, P.O. (1958). An Annotated Check List of Nyasaland Grasses The Government Printer, Zomba, Nyasaland Page 52. As Panicum monticolum 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 107. Strugnell, A.M. (2006). A Checklist of the Spermatophytes of Mount Mulanje, Malawi Scripta Botanica Belgica 34 National Botanic Garden of Belgium Page 151.

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