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Panicum chionachne
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Photo: Petra Ballings
Along main road between Lake Kaulime turn-off and Kaperepeze road, Nyika National Park
Photo: Petra Ballings
Along main road between Lake Kaulime turn-off and Kaperepeze road, Nyika National Park
Photo: Bart Wursten
Along main road between Lake Kaulime turn-off and Kaperepeze road, Nyika National Park
Photo: Petra Ballings
Along main road between Lake Kaulime turn-off and Kaperepeze road, Nyika National Park
Photo: Petra Ballings
Along main road between Lake Kaulime turn-off and Kaperepeze road, Nyika National Park
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| Status: | Native |
| Description: |
Annual or short-lived perennial with slender, decumbent or trailing culms 35–100 cm long. Leaves lanceolate, 5–13 cm long and 5–16 mm wide, flat. Panicle broadly ovate in outline, 6–22 cm long, sparsely to moderately branched. Spikelets ovate, 2–3 mm. long, hairless; inferior glume 3/4 to as long as the spikelet, 3-veined; superior glume 5–7-veined; inferior lemma 5-veined; superior lemma and palea pallid, glossy. |
| Type location: |
Tanzania |
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| Habitat: | Damp places in montane grassland or sometimes in shaded forest. |
| Altitude range: (metres) | 1000 - 2750 m |
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| Worldwide distribution: | DRC, Uganda, Sudan, Kenya, Tanzania, Malawi and Zambia |
| National distribution: | N,C,S |
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| Spot characters: | Display spot characters for this species |
| Images last updated: | Thursday 4 July 2019 |
| 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) Pages 39 - 40. (Includes a picture). Jackson, G. & Wiehe, P.O. (1958). An Annotated Check List of Nyasaland Grasses The Government Printer, Zomba, Nyasaland Page 50. Phiri, P.S.M. (2005). A Checklist of Zambian Vascular Plants Southern African Botanical Diversity Network Report No. 32 Page 133. |
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African Plants: A Photo Guide (Senckenberg): Panicum chionachneBHL (Biodiversity Heritage Library): Panicum chionachne
EOL (Encyclopedia of Life): Panicum chionachne
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IPNI (International Plant Names Index): Panicum chionachne
JSTOR Plant Science: Panicum chionachne
Mansfeld World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops: Panicum chionachne
Plants of the World Online: Panicum chionachne
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