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Status: | Native |
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Annual, slender, 7─31 cm tall; culms solitary or more often tufted, 4.7─27 cm long, 3-angled, glabrous. Inflorescence mostly simple, occasionally capitate, or compound anthelate; primary branches 3─10, 1.5─9 cm long, spikelets in digitate, ovoid clusters, sessile and at the end of primary and where present secondary branches; glumes pale orange-brown. |
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Derivation of specific name: | amabilis: amiable, lovable, pleasing |
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Worldwide distribution: | Regional distribution: Zambia, Malawi, Mozambique. Global distribution: western, eastern and southern Africa, America, Asia. |
Zimbabwe distribution: | N,W,C,E,S |
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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 298. Chapano, C. & Mugarisanwa, N.H. (2003). Plants of the Matobo District National Herbarium and Botanic Garden, Zimbabwe Page 12. Hoenselaar, K., Verdcourt, B. & Beentje, H.J. (2010). Cyperaceae Flora of Tropical East Africa Pages 158 - 159. (Includes a picture). 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 87. Setshogo, M.P. (2005). Preliminary checklist of the plants of Botswana. Sabonet Report no. 37. Sabonet, Pretoria and Gaborone Page 118. |
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