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| Synonyms: |
Dolichochaete rehmannii subsp. mosambicensis Phipps Dolichochaete rehmannii var. helenae (Buscal. & Muschl.) Phipps Dolichochaete rehmannii var. pilosa (C.E. Hubbard) Phipps Dolichochaete rehmannii (Hack.) J.B. Phipps Tristachya glabra Stapf Tristachya helenae Buscal. & Muschl. Tristachya hockii De Wild. Tristachya rehmannii var. helenae (Buscal. & Muschl.) C.E. Hubbard Tristachya rehmannii var. pilosa C.E. Hubbard |
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| Status: | Native |
| Description: |
Compactly tufted perennial. Culms 20–90 cm. high, slender, the basal sheaths silky villous. Leaf laminae 1–3(6) mm. wide, flat. Panicle up to 20 cm. long, narrowly lanceolate, nodding, bearing 1–6(8) triads of spikelets with connate pedicels. Spikelets 18–33 mm. long, yellowish with the inferior glume purple-brown, glabrous or very rarely tuberculate-ciliate. Inferior glume 1/2–3/4 length of spikelet. Superior lemma pubescent, the lobes tapering into bristles 10–20 mm. long, these deciduous with the central awn which is 3–9 cm. long. |
| Notes: | |
| Derivation of specific name: | rehmannii: named for Anton Rehmann, 1840-1917, Polish botanist and collector |
| Habitat: | Margins of seasonally wet drainage tracts |
| Altitude range: (metres) | 600 - 1700 m |
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| Worldwide distribution: | Angola, Botswana, DRC, Malawi, Mozambique, South Africa, Tanzania, Zambia, Zimbabwe |
| Zimbabwe distribution: | N,C |
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| Spot characters: | Display spot characters for this species |
| Literature: |
Clayton, W.D. (1989). Poaceae Flora Zambesiaca 10(3) Pages 208 - 209. Jackson, G. & Wiehe, P.O. (1958). An Annotated Check List of Nyasaland Grasses The Government Printer, Zomba, Nyasaland Page 64. As Tristachya rehmanii helenae (if syn) 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 111. Setshogo, M.P. (2005). Preliminary checklist of the plants of Botswana. Sabonet Report no. 37. Sabonet, Pretoria and Gaborone Page 147. |
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