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| Synonyms: |
Andropogon roseus Napper |
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| Status: | Native |
| Description: |
Caespitose perennial; culms up to 165 cm high, erect, branched above, tinged with dark red. Leaf sheaths often pilose; ligule 6–12(27) mm long, acute; laminas 25–63 cm long, 5–6 mm wide, loosely pilose near the ligule, tapering to a fine point at the apex. Racemes solitary, 3.2–3.7 cm long, exserted from the spatheoles, silvery with white hairs; peduncles longer than the racemes; internodes and pedicels clavate, ciliate on both margins with hairs c. 4 mm long. Sessile spikelet 6–8 mm long; inferior glume with a deep median groove, pilose; superior glume convex on the back, 2-toothed at the apex and with an awn 7–15 mm long; superior lemma bifid to the middle; awn geniculate, 21–24 mm long; anthers 2.3–2.8 mm long, dark red. Pedicelled spikelet male, 5.8–8 mm long, shortly pilose, reddish, with an awn up to 3.3 mm long. |
| Notes: | |
| Derivation of specific name: | textilis: used for weaving |
| Habitat: | Growing in grassland and Brachystegia woodland |
| Altitude range: (metres) | 1250 - 1450 m |
| Flowering time: | |
| Worldwide distribution: | Angola, Tanzania, Malawi, Zambia, Zimbabwe |
| Zimbabwe distribution: | N,C |
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| Endemic status: | |
| Red data list status: | |
| Insects associated with this species: | |
| Spot characters: | Display spot characters for this species |
| 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 341. Cope, T.A. (2002). Poaceae Flora Zambesiaca 10(4) Page 75. 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 99. |
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