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| Synonyms: |
Dactylis paucinervis Nees Diplachne paucinervis (Nees) Hack. |
| Common names: | Brack-quecke (English) Brakkweek (Afrikaans) Prickly brack grass (English) Steekriet (Afrikaans) |
| Frequency: | |
| Status: | Native |
| Description: |
Perennial mat-grass with long stout deeply penetrating rhizomes bearing dense fascicles of spiny glaucous shoots at the nodes; culms up to 35(60) cm tall, ascending, branched only at the base; leaf laminas 0.5–4(5) cm × 1–3(4) mm, linear-lanceolate, convolute-subulate, rigid and pungent.Panicle 2–7 × 0.6–2 cm, linear-oblong to obovate-oblong; racemes 1–3 cm long, erect, bearing 3–14 spikelets.Spikelets 3–7(10)-flowered, 4–12 mm long, elliptic to narrowly oblong-elliptic; glumes unequal, the inferior 1.8–2.4 mm long, broadly lanceolate, acute, the superior 2.7–3.3 mm long, oblong to elliptic-oblong, ± obtuse, sometimes mucronulate; lemmas 2.6–3.5(4) mm long, narrowly ovate.Caryopsis 1.1–1.2 mm long, elliptic-oblong, slightly concave on the hilar side. |
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| Habitat: | Colonising and often dominant in extensive open areas of seasonal pans, or fringing small dambos, often in sandy brackish soil near water, sometimes locally frequent on sandy alluvium |
| Altitude range: (metres) | 180 - 920 m |
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| Worldwide distribution: | Somalia, Tanzania, Africa south of the Congo River, Botswana, Zambia, Zimbabwe |
| Zimbabwe distribution: | W,E,S |
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| Spot characters: | Display spot characters for this species |
| Literature: |
Cope, T.A. (1999). Poaceae Flora Zambesiaca 10(2) Pages 34 - 35. (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 107. Roodt, V. (2015). Grasses & Grazers of Botswana and the surrounding savanna Struik Nature, South Africa Pages 154 - 155. (Includes a picture). Setshogo, M.P. (2005). Preliminary checklist of the plants of Botswana. Sabonet Report no. 37. Sabonet, Pretoria and Gaborone Page 141. |
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