Leptochloa panicea (Retz.) Ohwi

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Synonyms: Poa panicea Retz
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Status: Native
Description:
Slender annual up to 100 cm tall, erect or geniculately ascending; ligule a short membrane; leaf lamina 4–24 cm × 1–8 mm, linear, flat, long-attenuate at the apex; sheaths and both surfaces of the lamina tuberculate-pilose, the hairs spreading.Inflorescence 9–36 cm long, ± cylindrical, brush-like; racemes numerous, slender, 2–14 cm long, ascending, straight.Spikelets laterally compressed, 2–4-flowered, 1.8–2.3(2.5) mm long, narrowly elliptic, overlapping; glumes unequal, the inferior 0.9–1.2(1.6) mm long, lanceolate, acute, the superior 1–1.7 mm long, narrowly oblong, obtuse and mucronate; lemmas 0.9–1.2 mm long, elliptic-oblong, keeled, minutely pilose on the back, bluntly 2-toothed at the apex.Caryopsis 0.4–0.6 mm long, broadly elliptic, obtusely trigonous in section.
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Habitat: A weed of disturbed, usually damp, habitats
Altitude range: (metres) Up to 1050 m
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Worldwide distribution: Sudan southwards to Botswana, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Zambia, Zimbabwe and South Africa, West Africa and tropical Asia
Zimbabwe distribution: N,E,S
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Literature:

Cope, T.A. (1999). Poaceae Flora Zambesiaca 10(2) Pages 26 - 28.

Jackson, G. & Wiehe, P.O. (1958). An Annotated Check List of Nyasaland Grasses The Government Printer, Zomba, Nyasaland Page 47.

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 106.

Setshogo, M.P. (2005). Preliminary checklist of the plants of Botswana. Sabonet Report no. 37. Sabonet, Pretoria and Gaborone Page 140.


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Flora of Botswana: Leptochloa panicea
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Flora of Mozambique: Leptochloa panicea
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African Plants: A Photo Guide (Senckenberg): Leptochloa panicea
African Plant Database: Leptochloa panicea
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Mansfeld World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops: Leptochloa panicea
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Wikipedia: Leptochloa panicea


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: Leptochloa panicea.
https://www.zimbabweflora.co.zw/speciesdata/species.php?species_id=104510, retrieved 28 March 2024

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