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| Status: | Native |
| Description: |
Slender, glabrous or sparsely pilose annual with erect culms 25–60 cm. high. Leaf laminae 7–25 cm. long and 2–6 mm. wide, linear, acuminate. Panicle 5–20 cm. long, ovate, sparsely to moderately branched, the branches delicate, ascending or spreading. Spikelets 2–2.5 mm. long, ovate-elliptic, glabrous, acute or apiculate; inferior glume 1/3–1/2 the length of the spikelet, broadly ovate, 3-nerved, acute; superior glume ovate, 7-nerved, acute; inferior lemma ovate, 7-nerved, sterile, its palea absent; superior lemma and palea dark, glossy. |
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| Habitat: | In dambos and flooded grassland |
| Altitude range: | 1100 - 1950 m |
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| Worldwide distribution: | from Senegal to Sudan and southwards to Zambia and Malawi, Zimbabwe |
| Malawi distribution: | N,C |
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| Spot characters: | Display spot characters for this species |
| Literature: |
Clayton, W.D. (1989). Poaceae Flora Zambesiaca 10(3) Page 26. 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 107. |
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