Details of record no: 94686

Panicum maximum Jacq.

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Record details:

Date: 9 Feb 1988
Recorder(s):GL Maggs
Collector(s):GL Maggs
190
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Herbarium:WIND
Habitat:
Location: Caprivi: Near Ngoma. In Terminalia sericea woodland.
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Outing code:
Planted code: Not planted
Country: Namibia (Caprivi Strip)
Quarter Degree Square: 1724D3
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FZ Division:
Altitude (metres): 0
Notes: Graminoid; Notes: Perennial grass, up to 1.5 m when in flower. Culm slender, mostly erect, bright green, canaliculate, glabrous. Leaf blade ca. 20 x 2 cm, soft and tender, bright green with scattered white adpressed indumentum. Ligule with dense, white indumentum. Leaf sheath with very dense long white indumentum especially conspicuous along margin, somewhat imbricate. Inflorescence an open panicle, 30 cm long. Borne on slender, glabrous peduncle, 2 mm long, ovoid, glabrous; stalks slender, twisted. In Terminalia sericea woodland.
Latitude, Longitude: -17.875000, 24.625000
Location Accuracy Code: 4

Map of species record


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: Individual record no: 94686: Panicum maximum.
https://www.zimbabweflora.co.zw/speciesdata/species-record.php?record_id=94686, retrieved 18 April 2024

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