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| Synonyms: |
Panicum filiculme Schinz Panicum kisantuense Robyns Panicum schlechteri Schinz Panicum snowdenii C.E. Hubbard |
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| Status: | Native |
| Description: |
Aquatic annual with slender culms 14–120 cm. long. Leaf laminae 1.2–7(8.5) cm. long and 2–5(10) mm. wide, lanceolate, acute. Panicle 2–10 cm. long, oblong, pilose with both tapering and clavellate hairs, rarely the clavellate hairs absent. Spikelets 2–2.5(3) mm. long, oblong; inferior glume 1/2–2/3 the length of the spikelet, 0–1-nerved; superior glume 7–9-nerved; inferior lemma 7–9-nerved, sterile, its palea poorly developed; superior lemma shiny. |
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| Habitat: | River margins and swampy places. |
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| Worldwide distribution: | Madagascar, from Guinée and Ethiopia southwards to South Africa, Botswana, Malawi, Mozambique, Zambia, Zimbabwe |
| Malawi distribution: | C |
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| Spot characters: | Display spot characters for this species |
| Literature: |
Burrows, J.E. & Willis, C.K. (eds) (2005). Plants of the Nyika Plateau Southern African Botanical Diversity Network Report No. 31 SABONET, Pretoria Page 357. Clayton, W.D. (1989). Poaceae Flora Zambesiaca 10(3) Page 16. Jackson, G. & Wiehe, P.O. (1958). An Annotated Check List of Nyasaland Grasses The Government Printer, Zomba, Nyasaland Page 52. As Panicum snowdenii 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. 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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