Trichoneura grandiglumis (Nees) Ekman

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Synonyms: Crossotropis grandiglumis (Nees) Rendle
Crossotropis grandiglumis var. minor Rendle
Diplachne grandiglumis (Nees) Hack.
Leptochloa grandiglumis Nees
Trichoneura grandiglumis (Nees) Ekman var. minor (Rendle) Chippind.
Common names: Small rolling grass (English) Tumble grass (English)
Frequency:
Status: Native
Description:
Caespitose perennial; culms up to 60(85) cm tall, erect or ascending; leaf laminas (3)5–12(17) cm × (1)2–6 mm, linear, flat or convolute, acute at the apex and sometimes pungent.Inflorescence 8.5–40 cm long, ovate to broadly pyramidal, open; racemes 8–30, 4–20 cm long, stiff and straight, divaricate and often horizontally spreading from the axis, the spikelets distant by ± their own length.Spikelets 4.5–8.5 mm long, 3–7-flowered, often purplish; glumes caudate or subulate and tapering into an awn up to 2 mm long, exceeding the florets or rarely fractionally shorter, the inferior linear-lanceolate, the superior linear-oblong; lemmas 3.5–4.5 mm long, narrowly elliptic-oblong, appressed-pilose on the back; palea capitate-pilose.
Notes:
Derivation of specific name: grandiglumis: with large glumes
Habitat: Dry grassland, grassland with scattered trees and in shady patches in woodland; also in disturbed and overgrazed areas
Altitude range: (metres) 800 - 1600 m
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Worldwide distribution: Africa south of the Congo River Basin
Zimbabwe distribution: N,W,C,E,S
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Literature:

Chapano, C. & Mugarisanwa, N.H. (2003). Plants of the Matobo District National Herbarium and Botanic Garden, Zimbabwe Page 35. As Trichoneura grandiglumis grandiglumis

Cope, T.A. (1999). Poaceae Flora Zambesiaca 10(2) Pages 43 - 45. (Includes a picture).

Heath, A. & Heath, R. (2009). Field Guide to the Plants of Northern Botswana including the Okavango Delta Kew Publishing Page 444. (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 111.

Roodt, V. (2015). Grasses & Grazers of Botswana and the surrounding savanna Struik Nature, South Africa Pages 218 - 219. (Includes a picture).

Setshogo, M.P. (2005). Preliminary checklist of the plants of Botswana. Sabonet Report no. 37. Sabonet, Pretoria and Gaborone Page 147.

Siebert, S. & Mössmer, M. (Editors) (2002). SABONET Southern Mozambique Expedition 2001; Provisional Plant Checklist of the Maputo Elephant Reserve (MER) and Licuati Forest Reserve (LFR) SABONET News 7(1) Page 28.

Timberlake, J.R. & Childes, S.L. (2004). Biodiversity of the Four Corners Area: Technical Reviews Volume Two (Chapter 5-15) Appendix 5-1: Plant Checklist Occasional Publications in Biodiversity 15 Page 192.


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Wikipedia: Trichoneura grandiglumis


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: Trichoneura grandiglumis.
https://www.zimbabweflora.co.zw/speciesdata/species.php?species_id=104590, retrieved 5 October 2024

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