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| Status: | Native |
| Description: |
Caespitose perennial; culms up to 170 cm high, erect, usually branched. Leaves glabrous; ligule a very short (c. 0.5 mm) minutely fringed membrane; laminas 5–17 cm × 2.5–5 mm, flat or folded, abruptly acute at the apex. Racemes in pairs, 3–4.5 cm long, zig-zag, exserted from the spatheoles at maturity; peduncles longer than the racemes; internodes and pedicels filiform, divergent, clavate above, ciliate on both margins, the hairs much longer towards the apex. Spikelets similar, 4.5–5.5 mm long, reddish. Sessile spikelet: inferior glume with broad median groove, glabrous; superior lemma bifid to about half way; awn geniculate, 11–15.5 mm long; anthers 2–2.5 mm long, straw-coloured. Pedicelled spikelet male; inferior glume with an awn 1–2 mm long. |
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| Derivation of specific name: | africanus: African |
| Habitat: | Growing at the edges of dambos |
| Altitude range: (metres) | 1230 - 1950 m |
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| Worldwide distribution: | Throughout Tropical Africa |
| Zimbabwe distribution: | E |
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| Spot characters: | Display spot characters for this species |
| Literature: |
Cope, T.A. (2002). Poaceae Flora Zambesiaca 10(4) Page 63. 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. |
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