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| Status: | Native |
| Description: |
Stoloniferous perennial without rhizomes; stolons stout; culms robust to fairly slender, up to 60 cm tall, soft, not woody (but stolons woody); leaf laminas 4–11.5 cm × 2–6 mm, flat.Racemes 4–16 in 1 or sometimes 2 whorls, 4–20 cm long. Spikelets 2–2.6 mm long, green or pigmented with red or purple; glumes narrowly lanceolate in profile, the superior 1/2–3/4 as long as the spikelet; lemma silky-pubescent to softly ciliate on the keel.
subsp. robustus : Culms stout, 2–3 mm in diameter at the base; leaf laminas 5–6 mm wide, mostly thin and green; racemes 6–13, each 6–20 cm long. |
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| Habitat: | Often in sandy soils in wet places |
| Altitude range: | 900 - 1550 m |
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| Worldwide distribution: | Sudan, Ethiopia, and southwards through east tropical Africa to DRC, Malawi, Zambia, Zimbabwe, introduced in West Africa as a fodder grass |
| Malawi distribution: | N,C |
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| Spot characters: | Display spot characters for this species |
| Literature: |
Cope, T.A. (1999). Poaceae Flora Zambesiaca 10(2) Pages 237 - 238. 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 102. |
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