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| Synonyms: |
Melinis denudata Mez Melinis merkeri Mez Rhynchelytrum denudatum (Mez) Stapf & Hubbard Rhynchelytrum eylesii Stapf & C.E. Hubb. Rhynchelytrum merkeri (Mez) Stapf & Hubbard Rhynchelytrum subglabrum (Mez) Stapf & C.E. Hubb. |
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| Frequency: | |
| Status: | Native |
| Description: |
Perennial from a knotty rootstock. Culms 40–130 cm. high, erect or rarely geniculately ascending. Leaf laminae 3–17 cm. long, (2.3)3–8(10) mm. wide. Panicle 6–14(20) cm. long, broadly ovate. Pedicels usually with a few long hairs. Spikelets 3.2–5 mm. long, ovate. Inferior glume (0.3)0.6–1(1.3) mm. long, inconspicuously 1-nerved, narrowly ovate, inserted close to the superior; superior glume 5-nerved, usually gibbous on the back, subcoriaceous to coriaceous, glabrous, rarely hairy, emarginate, usually mucronate. Inferior floret male, its lemma 5-nerved, resembling the superior glume but less gibbous, the palea ciliate on its keels. |
| Notes: | |
| Derivation of specific name: | subglabra: almost hairless |
| Habitat: | Often under shade and by streamsides, in grassland and Brachystegia woodland |
| Altitude range: (metres) | 800 - 2100 m |
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| Worldwide distribution: | Angola, Kenya, Malawi, Namibia, South Africa, Tanzania, Zambia, Zimbabwe |
| Zimbabwe distribution: | N,W,C,E,S |
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| Endemic status: | |
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| Insects associated with this species: | |
| Spot characters: | Display spot characters for this species |
| Literature: |
Chapano, C. & Mugarisanwa, N.H. (2003). Plants of the Matobo District National Herbarium and Botanic Garden, Zimbabwe Page 25. Clayton, W.D. (1989). Poaceae Flora Zambesiaca 10(3) Page 119. Jackson, G. & Wiehe, P.O. (1958). An Annotated Check List of Nyasaland Grasses The Government Printer, Zomba, Nyasaland Page 56. As Rhynchelytrum subglabrum 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 106. |
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