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| Synonyms: |
Fingerhuthia affghanica Boiss. |
| Common names: | Trimble grass (English) |
| Frequency: | |
| Status: | Native |
| Description: |
Densely caespitose perennial, often with stout oblique rhizome, up to 60(90) cm tall, usually erect; leaf lamina (3)7.5–30(40) cm × 2–5(7) mm, flat or convolute.Panicle 1.5–5 cm long, cylindrical or narrowly ellipsoid, green or tinged with purple.Spikelets 4–7(9) mm long; glumes as long as the spikelet, the superior a little longer than the inferior, lanceolate in profile, the keel and (to a lesser extent) the margins with soft silky hairs, the flanks smooth or asperulous, with an awn 1.7–3.5 mm long; fertile lemma (4)4.5–6.9 mm long, ovate-lanceolate in profile, softly ciliate on the margins, scaberulous on the back, mucronate or shortly awned at the rounded apex. |
| Notes: | |
| Derivation of specific name: | africana: African |
| Habitat: | In grassland and open dry woodland |
| Flowering time: | |
| Worldwide distribution: | Afghanistan, Angola, Arabia, Botswana, Mozambique, Namibia, Pakistan, South Africa, Zimbabwe |
| Botswana distribution: | N,SW,SE |
| Growth form(s): | |
| Endemic status: | |
| Red data list status: | |
| Insects associated with this species: | |
| Spot characters: | Display spot characters for this species |
| Literature: |
Cope, T.A. (1999). Poaceae Flora Zambesiaca 10(2) Pages 17 - 20. (Includes a picture). 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 105. Roodt, V. (2015). Grasses & Grazers of Botswana and the surrounding savanna Struik Nature, South Africa Pages 134 - 135. (Includes a picture). Setshogo, M.P. (2005). Preliminary checklist of the plants of Botswana. Sabonet Report no. 37. Sabonet, Pretoria and Gaborone Page 138. |
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