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Eragrostis lehmanniana
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Photo: Petra Ballings
Along road between Shash Wilderness Camp and National Parks Compound, Tuli
Photo: Petra Ballings
Along road between Shash Wilderness Camp and National Parks Compound, Tuli
Photo: Petra Ballings
Along road between Shash Wilderness Camp and National Parks Compound, Tuli
Photo: Petra Ballings
Along road between Shash Wilderness Camp and National Parks Compound, Tuli
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| Synonyms: |
Eragrostis chaunantha Pilg. Eragrostis lehmanniana var. chaunantha (Pilg.) De Winter Eragrostis vansonii Bremek. & Oberm. |
| Common names: | Lehmann's love grass (English) Rathathe (Setswana) |
| Frequency: | |
| Status: | Native |
| Description: |
Caespitose perennial without rhizomes but sometimes with stolons; culms up to 90 cm tall, erect, ascending or decumbent and rooting at the nodes, branched, glabrous at the nodes (but the internodes glabrous or pilose), eglandular; basal leaf sheaths shortly pilose below or sometimes glabrous, chartaceous, ± compressed and keeled, eglandular, persistent; ligule a line of hairs; leaf laminas 6–25 cm × 1.5–3.5 mm, linear to broadly linear, flat, puberulous above, eglandular.Panicle 9–16 cm long, ovate to narrowly ovate-elliptic, loose and open, the spikelets condensed about the branchlets on pedicels 0.5–1 mm long, the primary branches not in whorls, terminating in a fertile spikelet, glabrous in the axils, eglandular.Spikelets 4–11 × 1–1.5 mm, oblong to linear, lightly laterally compressed, 7–15-flowered, the lemmas disarticulating from below upwards, the rhachilla persistent below, sometimes becoming fragile above; glumes subequal, 1.3–1.9 mm long, reaching to between 1/2 and 2/3(3/4) the way along the adjacent lemmas, lightly keeled, narrowly oblong-lanceolate in profile, smooth or scaberulous on the keel, subacute at the apex; lemmas 1.8–2 mm long, lightly keeled, elliptic-oblong in profile, membranous with distinct lateral nerves, appressed to the rhachilla, those in opposite rows scarcely overlapping, the rhachilla ± visible between them, dark green, grey-green or reddish, faintly asperulous on the back, obtuse to shallowly 3-lobed at the apex; palea persistent or rarely deciduous with the lemma, glabrous on the flanks, the keels slender, wingless, smooth or scaberulous; anthers 3, 0.7–1 mm long.Caryopsis 0.7–0.8 mm long, oblong to elliptic. |
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| Habitat: | In grassland and wooded grassland on Kalahari sand, in seasonal pans in mopane woodland an at the margins of calcareous pans, on river bank alluvium and in Acacia woodland. |
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| Worldwide distribution: | Mozambique, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Botswana, Namibia, Lesotho and South Africa. |
| Botswana distribution: | N,SW,SE |
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| Endemic status: | |
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| Spot characters: | Display spot characters for this species |
| Content last updated: | Thursday 24 August 2017 |
| Literature: |
Chapano, C. & Mamuto, M. (2003). Plants of the Chimanimani District National Herbarium and Botanic Garden, Zimbabwe Page 24. As Eragrostis lehmanniana chaunantha Chapano, C. & Mugarisanwa, N.H. (2003). Plants of the Matobo District National Herbarium and Botanic Garden, Zimbabwe Page 15. As Eragrostis lehmanniana chaunantha Cope, T.A. (1999). Poaceae Flora Zambesiaca 10(2) Pages 146 - 147. Isaiah, A.M. & Komi, T. (2015). Grasses in the Botswana National Botanic Garden South African National Biodiversity Institute, Pretoria Page 19. (Includes a picture). Jackson, G. & Wiehe, P.O. (1958). An Annotated Check List of Nyasaland Grasses The Government Printer, Zomba, Nyasaland Page 67. 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 104. Poilecot, P. (2007). Eragrostis species of Zimbabwe Éditions Quae,Versailles, France Pages 204 - 205. (Includes a picture). Roodt, V. (2015). Grasses & Grazers of Botswana and the surrounding savanna Struik Nature, South Africa Pages 118 - 119. as Eragrostis lehmanniana var. lehmanniana (Includes a picture). |
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