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Acrachne racemosa
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Shashe Wilderness Camp, Tuli
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Shashe Wilderness Camp, Tuli
Photo: Petra Ballings
Shashe Wilderness Camp, Tuli
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| Synonyms: |
Acrachne verticillata (Roxb.) Chiov. Eleusine racemosa B. Heyne ex Roem. & Schult. Eleusine vetricillata Roxb. |
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| Status: | Native |
| Description: |
Tufted annual grass with culms up to 75 cm high. Leaves 7–20 cm long, soft, tapering to a fine hair-like apex. Racemes up to 10 cm long, ascending, mainly grouped in whorls of 2–5, either clustered subdigitately towards the top of the culm or arranged along a central axis up to 15 cm long. Spikelets 5.5–13 mm long; inferior glume linear-oblong in profile, 1.2–2.9 mm long, superior glume lanceolate in profile, 1.5–3 mm long, with an apical awn 1/3–2/3 as long as the body; lemmas narrowly ovate in profile, 2.1–2.8 mm long, mid-nerve ending into a stout awn-like point up to 0.9 mm long. |
| Notes: | |
| Derivation of specific name: | racemosa: in racemes or racemose, referring to the branches of the inflorescence with pedicellate spikelets forming racemes. |
| Habitat: | On river banks and lake-shores, in clay and sandy alluvial soils, also as a weed of disturbed ground, cultivation, and irrigated crops. |
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| Worldwide distribution: | Widespread in tropical Africa, Southern Africa, Arabia, Asia and Australia. |
| Botswana distribution: | N,SE |
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| Endemic status: | |
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| Spot characters: | Display spot characters for this species |
| Content last updated: | Thursday 1 August 2019 |
| Literature: |
Chapano, C. (2002). A checklist of Zimbabwean grasses Southern African Botanical Diversity Network Report No. 16. Pretoria. Page 7. Chapano, C. & Mamuto, M. (2003). Plants of the Chimanimani District National Herbarium and Botanic Garden, Zimbabwe Page 2. Chapano, C. & Mugarisanwa, N.H. (2003). Plants of the Matobo District National Herbarium and Botanic Garden, Zimbabwe Page 2. Cope, T.A. (1999). Poaceae Flora Zambesiaca 10(2) Pages 159 - 160. (Includes a picture). Da Silva, M.C., Izidine, S. & Amude, A.B. (2004). A preliminary checklist of the vascular plants of Mozambique. Southern African Botanical Diversity Network Report No. 30 Sabonet, Pretoria Page 130. Fish, L., Mashau, A.C., Moeaha, M.J. & Nembudani, M.T. (2015). Identification Guide to Southern African Grasses Strelitzia 36 South African National Biodiversity Institute, Pretoria Page 51. Jackson, G. & Wiehe, P.O. (1958). An Annotated Check List of Nyasaland Grasses The Government Printer, Zomba, Nyasaland Page 37. As Eleusine verticillata 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 99. Phiri, P.S.M. (2005). A Checklist of Zambian Vascular Plants Southern African Botanical Diversity Network Report No. 32 Page 126. Setshogo, M.P. (2005). Preliminary checklist of the plants of Botswana. Sabonet Report no. 37. Sabonet, Pretoria and Gaborone Page 129. Van Oudtshoorn, F.P. (1992). Grasses of South Africa Briza Publications, South Africa Page 267. (Includes a picture). |
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