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| Synonyms: |
Amphilophis piptatherus (Hack.) Nash Andropogon condylotrichus Hochst. ex Steud. Andropogon piptatherus Hack. Euclasta glumacea Franch. Euclasta graminea T. & H. Durand Sorghum piptatherum (Hack.) Kuntze |
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| Status: | Native |
| Description: |
Annual; culms up to 150 cm high, geniculately ascending with stilt-roots, barbate at the nodes; leaf sheaths with long tubercle-based hairs at the mouth; ligule membranous with ciliolate to long-ciliate fringe; leaf laminas up to 25 cm × 2–10 mm, linear-lanceolate, somewhat flaccid, contracted at the base and drawn out at the apex into a setaceous point, glabrous on both sides or shortly pilose along the midrib and adjacent nerves; midrib whitish, prominent. Inflorescence of subdigitate racemes. Sessile spikelet: inferior glume c. 4 mm long, elliptic-oblong, with 5 nerves ending below the hyaline truncate apex, pilose on the margins and on the back below, scaberulous on the keels; superior glume c. 4 mm long, ovate, strongly carinate, glabrous; inferior floret empty with ovate carinate lemma ciliate on the keel and margins; superior floret bisexual; lemma hyaline, stipitiform; palea present; awn c. 37 mm long, minutely pilose; anthers c. 0.75 mm long. Pedicelled spikelet male; inferior glume c. 5.5 mm long, oblanceolate, 7–10-nerved, pilose in the lower 1/3; superior glume 4–4.5 mm long; superior floret with lemma slightly shorter than the glumes; anthers c. 1.5 mm long. |
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| Habitat: | Growing mainly on rocky escarpments and along roadsides |
| Altitude range: (metres) | 200 - 1900 m |
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| Worldwide distribution: | Tropical Africa. |
| Zimbabwe distribution: | N,C |
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| Spot characters: | Display spot characters for this species |
| Literature: |
Cope, T.A. (2002). Poaceae Flora Zambesiaca 10(4) Pages 49 - 50. (Includes a picture). Jackson, G. & Wiehe, P.O. (1958). An Annotated Check List of Nyasaland Grasses The Government Printer, Zomba, Nyasaland Page 41. 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 105. Setshogo, M.P. (2000). Notes on the grass subtribe Sorghinae (Poaceae: Andropogoneae) in the Flora Zambesiaca area Kirkia 17(2) Page 145. |
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