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| Synonyms: |
Cynosurus indicus L. |
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| Description: |
Caespitose annual; culms slender, up to 85 cm tall, erect or geniculately ascending, often branching from the lower nodes; ligule sparsely and minutely ciliolate; leaf laminas 5–25 cm × 2.5–6 mm, usually folded.Racemes 1–14, 2.5–15.5 cm × 3–5.5 mm.Spikelets 4.3–5.2 mm long, elliptic; glumes acute, the inferior 1.1–2.3 mm long, 1-nerved, the superior 1.8–2.9 mm long; lemmas 2.4–3.6(4) mm long, lanceolate in profile, acute to subacute.Caryopsis 1–1.3 mm long, elliptic or lanceolate-elliptic, obliquely striate and with fine close lines perpendicular to the striae.Diploid, 2n = 18. |
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| Derivation of specific name: | indica: of India |
| Habitat: | At low altitudes, often in damp sandy soils on river banks, and common on disturbed ground at roadsides, in gardens and in cultivated fields where it is a widespread and aggressive weed of maize-lands |
| Altitude range: (metres) | 0 - 1450 m |
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| Worldwide distribution: | tropics and subtropics throughout the world |
| Zimbabwe distribution: | N,W,C,E |
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| Spot characters: | Display spot characters for this species |
| Literature: |
Cope, T.A. (1999). Poaceae Flora Zambesiaca 10(2) Pages 156 - 158. (Includes a picture). Heath, A. & Heath, R. (2009). Field Guide to the Plants of Northern Botswana including the Okavango Delta Kew Publishing Page 455. (Includes a picture). Jackson, G. & Wiehe, P.O. (1958). An Annotated Check List of Nyasaland Grasses The Government Printer, Zomba, Nyasaland Page 37. 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 103. Setshogo, M.P. (2005). Preliminary checklist of the plants of Botswana. Sabonet Report no. 37. Sabonet, Pretoria and Gaborone Page 135. Wild, H. (1955). Common Rhodesian Weeds Government of Rhodesia, Salisbury Page 6. (Includes a picture). |
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