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| Status: | Native |
| Description: |
Annual with culms 20–70 cm. high, erect or geniculately ascending, branched, soft. Leaf laminae 7–15 cm. long and 3–6 mm. wide, linear, flat, sharply acute. Panicles 4–10 cm. long, narrowly oblong, seldom fully exserted from the uppermost leaf-sheath, sparsely branched, the branches appressed. Spikelets 2.5–4 mm. long, ovate-oblong, acute; inferior glume 1/5–1/4 the length of the spikelet, membranous, cuff-like, obtuse or bluntly acute 0–1-nerved; superior glume as long as the spikelet 11-nerved; inferior lemma 9-nerved; its palea absent, sterile; superior lemma and palea glossy. |
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| Habitat: | Seasonal rainwater pans. |
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| Worldwide distribution: | Botswana, Namibia, Zimbabwe |
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| Spot characters: | Display spot characters for this species |
| Literature: |
Clayton, W.D. (1989). Poaceae Flora Zambesiaca 10(3) Page 27. Golding, J.S. (ed.) (2002). Botswana Plant Red Data List. Southern African Plant Red Data Lists. SABONET 14 Page 20. Setshogo, M.P. (2005). Preliminary checklist of the plants of Botswana. Sabonet Report no. 37. Sabonet, Pretoria and Gaborone Page 142. |
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