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| Synonyms: |
Agrostis greenwayi C. E. Hubb. |
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| Status: | Native |
| Description: |
A densely caespitose perennial. Culms 50-120 cm. tall, usually erect, more rarely ascending from a shortly geniculate base, 2-4-noded, usually simple, smooth or scaberulous beneath the nodes. Leaf-sheaths fairly tight, smooth or scaberulous, the oldest persistent and often splitting into irregular fibres. Leaf-laminae 3-25 x 0.25(0.3) cm., expanded or sometimes involute, linear to almost setaceous, glabrous. Panicle 5-25 cm. long, ovate to elliptic in outline, usually effuse with flexuous branches, more rarely slightly contracted. Spikelets 3.5 — 4.5 mm. long, oblong, green or often purplish, gaping at length. Glumes 1-nerved (rarely the superior 3-nerved), subequal, lanceolate, firmly membranous, apex acute to acuminate, keel scabrous, flanks minutely granular-scaberulous or very rarely smooth. Lemma 2-2.25(3) mm. long, thinly membranous, ovate-oblong to broadly elliptic, 5-nerved with the nerves excurrent into mucros up to 0.75 mm. long, dorsally pilose to a varying degree of density, dorsally awned from near the base; awn geniculate, 4-7.5 mm. long. Palea usually almost as long as (rarely shorter than — see notes) the lemma, faintly 2-nerved, apex 2-dentate; rhachilla usually produced beyond the floret (very rarely not produced), forming a basally hairy awn-like bristle, 1-3 mm. long. |
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| Habitat: | In montane grassland, on hillsides and rocky slopes, often to be found in shade under bracken, also along roads |
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| Worldwide distribution: | Sudan, Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, Malawi and Zimbabwe. |
| Zimbabwe distribution: | E |
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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 338. (Includes a picture). Jackson, G. & Wiehe, P.O. (1958). An Annotated Check List of Nyasaland Grasses The Government Printer, Zomba, Nyasaland Page 27. Also as Agrostis greenwayii Launert, E. (1971). Poaceae Flora Zambesiaca 10(1) Pages 89 - 90. (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 99. Strugnell, A.M. (2006). A Checklist of the Spermatophytes of Mount Mulanje, Malawi Scripta Botanica Belgica 34 National Botanic Garden of Belgium Page 145. |
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