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| Synonyms: |
Andropogon gazensis (Rendle) Eyles Cymbopogon gazensis Rendle Hyparrhenia snowdenii C.E. Hubb. |
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| Frequency: | |
| Status: | Native |
| Description: |
Loosely caespitose perennial; culms up to 180 cm high and up to 2 mm in diameter, weakly erect or geniculately ascending, sometimes sprawling. Leaf sheaths glabrous, or pubescent above; leaf laminas 8–20 cm × 2–5 mm, glabrous or thinly pilose, long-acuminate at the apex. False panicle 10–35 cm long, narrow, lax; spatheoles 3–4 cm long, linear-lanceolate, glabrous, reddish-brown; peduncles 1/2–3/4 as long as the spatheoles, pilose above with white hairs; racemes 1–1.5 cm long, 4–5-awned per pair, laterally exserted, not or sometimes tardily deflexed; raceme-bases unequal, divergent, the superior (2)2.5–3.5 mm long, terete, stiffly pilose with white bulbous-based hairs, the articulation with the peduncle glabrous. Homogamous spikelets c. 5 mm long, narrowly lanceolate, a single pair at the base of the inferior or both racemes. Sessile spikelets 4.5–5 mm long; callus 0.8–1.5 mm long, cuneate, acute at the apex; inferior glume linear-oblong to lanceolate-oblong, sparsely hispidulous; awn 2–3 cm long, the column pubescent with fulvous hairs. Pedicelled spikelets 5–6 mm long, linear-lanceolate, glabrous, terminating in a short mucro 1–2 mm long; callus absent; pedicel-tooth short, broadly triangular. |
| Notes: | |
| Derivation of specific name: | gazensis: of Gazaland, a historic name for Southern Mozambique. |
| Habitat: | Growing in flooded grassland, Brachystegia woodland, and as a ruderal on poor soils |
| Altitude range: (metres) | 1000 - 1100 m |
| Flowering time: | |
| Worldwide distribution: | DRC, Kenya, South Africa , Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe |
| Zimbabwe distribution: | 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. & Mamuto, M. (2003). Plants of the Chimanimani District National Herbarium and Botanic Garden, Zimbabwe Page 32. Cope, T.A. (2002). Poaceae Flora Zambesiaca 10(4) Page 106. Jackson, G. & Wiehe, P.O. (1958). An Annotated Check List of Nyasaland Grasses The Government Printer, Zomba, Nyasaland Page 44. 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. |
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