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| Synonyms: |
Hyparrhenia eylesii C.E. Hubb. Hyparrhenia grallata Stapf |
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| Frequency: | |
| Status: | Native |
| Description: |
Densely caespitose perennial; culms 100–200 cm high, up to 4 mm in diameter. Leaf sheaths glabrous or sparsely pilose; ligules 1–1.5 mm long, ciliate; leaf laminas up to 30 cm × 6 mm, rigid, glaucous, glabrescent, those on the tillers much shorter (c. 5 cm) and silvery-villous. Panicle scanty, narrow, rarely reduced to a single pair of racemes; spatheoles linear, 7.5–10 cm long, green or purplish, glabrous or rarely sparsely hirsute; peduncle glabrous or rarely pubescent. Racemes 4–5.5 cm long, c. 12(18)-awned per pair, slender, loose; raceme-bases pubescent where they meet, the inferior very short, the superior 3–4 mm long. Homogamous spikelet-pairs 1 at the base of the inferior raceme (rarely of both racemes), c. 7 mm long, similar to the pedicelled spikelets. Sessile spikelets (7)9–10(12) mm long (including the callus); callus 2.5–3.5(4.5) mm long, slender, pungent, white-pubescent; superior glume with a slender awn 8–18 mm long; superior lemma 5–6 mm long, bilobed almost to the middle; awn (2.5)3–5 cm long, the column thinly and shortly pubescent with white hairs. Pedicelled spikelets 6–10 mm long (excluding the callus), white-villous, acute; callus 2–3 mm long. |
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| Habitat: | Growing in savanna woodland |
| Altitude range: (metres) | 550 - 1460 m |
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| Worldwide distribution: | Tropical Africa |
| Zimbabwe distribution: | N,W,C,E |
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| Endemic status: | |
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| 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 15. Cope, T.A. (2002). Poaceae Flora Zambesiaca 10(4) Pages 138 - 140. (Includes a picture). Jackson, G. & Wiehe, P.O. (1958). An Annotated Check List of Nyasaland Grasses The Government Printer, Zomba, Nyasaland Page 44. As Hyparrhenia eylesii 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 103. Setshogo, M.P. (2005). Preliminary checklist of the plants of Botswana. Sabonet Report no. 37. Sabonet, Pretoria and Gaborone Page 135. |
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