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| Status: | Native |
| Description: |
Perennial with tough, robust culms 50–200 cm. high from a shortly rhizomatous or tufted base; the upper nodes not sharply demarcated, the pigment diffusing above and below. Leaf laminae 15–30 cm. long and 5–10 mm. wide, linear, flat, acuminate. Panicle (20)30–50 cm. long, ovate or oblong, moderately to much branched, the tertiary and sometimes the secondary branches appressed. Spikelets 3–3.5 mm. long, narrowly ovate, acuminate; inferior glume 1/4–1/3 the length of the spikelet, broadly ovate, 1–3-nerved; superior glume 7–9-nerved; inferior lemma similar to the superior glume, sterile, its palea poorly developed; superior lemma and palea pallid, glossy |
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| Habitat: | Damp ground near swamps and rivers |
| Altitude range: | 400 - 2250 m |
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| Worldwide distribution: | occurring Northwards to West Africa and Ethiopia, Botswana, Malawi, Mozambique, Zambia, Zimbabwe |
| Malawi distribution: | C |
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| Spot characters: | Display spot characters for this species |
| Literature: |
Clayton, W.D. (1989). Poaceae Flora Zambesiaca 10(3) Pages 29 - 30. 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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