Polypogon viridis (Gouan) Breistr.

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Synonyms: Polypogon semiverticillatus (Forssk.) Hyl.
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A rather variable perennial, rarely annual, usually loosely caespitose, often stoloniferous. Culms (15)30-100 cm. tall, erect from a decumbent base, sometimes rooting at the nodes, glabrous and smooth, 2-many-noded. Leaf-sheaths striate, tight at first later becoming loose and often slipping off the culm. Leaf-laminae 2-17 x 0.2-0.7 cm., usually expanded narrowly lanceolate to linear, glabrous, scaberulous, tapering to a fine point. Panicle usually rather contracted, 3-8(11) cm. long, up to 25 cm. wide, lobed, erect; branches verticillate, densely spiculate down to the base. Spikelets falling entire, 1.75 - 2 mm. long, ovate-elliptic to narrowly elliptic in outline, shortly pedicelled to almost sessile. Glumes equal, determining the length of the spikelet, obtusely keeled, elliptic if expanded, acute, dorsally scaberulous, green or occasionally tinged with purple. Lemma 1-1.5 mm. long, awnless, broadly elliptic, finely 5-nerved, with the apex truncate and sometimes minutely toothed. Palea 2-nerved, almost as long as the lemma. Anthers 0.5 — 0.75 mm. long. Caryopsis c. 1 mm. long, pale-brown.
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Derivation of specific name: viridis: green
Habitat: On moist ground, along irrigation ditches, streams, in waste land and on roadsides.
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Worldwide distribution: A native of the Mediterranean area and north-eastern Africa, introduced in warm and temperate regions; Angola, South Africa, south-western Africa, Zimbabwe.
Zimbabwe distribution: E
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Literature:

Launert, E. (1971). Poaceae Flora Zambesiaca 10(1) Page 86. As Polypogon semiverticillatus

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 108.


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African Plants: A Photo Guide (Senckenberg): Polypogon viridis
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Copyright: Mark Hyde, Bart Wursten, Petra Ballings and Meg Coates Palgrave, 2002-24

Hyde, M.A., Wursten, B.T., Ballings, P. & Coates Palgrave, M. (2024). Flora of Zimbabwe: Species information: Polypogon viridis.
https://www.zimbabweflora.co.zw/speciesdata/species.php?species_id=103830, retrieved 28 March 2024

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