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| Synonyms: |
Andropogon plurinodis Stapf Andropogon pospischilii K. Schum. Cymbopogon plurinodis (Stapf) Burtt Davy |
| Common names: | Bitter turpentine grass (English) Mokamakama (Setswana) Mosegaseolo (Setswana) Moteko (Setswana) Rantafole (Setswana) |
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| Status: | Native |
| Description: |
Caespitose perennial; culms up to 150 cm high. Leaves pilose with a few long hairs near the ligule only, often tinged with red; ligule 0.5–1.5 mm long; laminas 12–21 cm long, 4–5 mm wide, broadest at about the middle, switch-like, scabrid on the margins, very gradually tapering at the apex to a thread-like point. Inflorescence 17–38 cm long, elongated and ± interrupted, reddish. Racemes 10–28 mm long, tinged with red; internodes and pedicels pilose with silvery-white hairs. Sessile spikelet 4–7 mm long; inferior glume with a broad U-shaped median groove and scabrid flanges in the upper 1/4, entire at the apex; superior lemma linear, bifid to about the middle; awn 10–16 mm long, with well developed column; anthers 1.6–3(4) mm long, straw-coloured. Pedicelled spikelet 4.5–7.5 mm long. |
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| Habitat: | Growing in lush grassland and wooded grassland, in sandy, rocky or hard loamy soils, and along roadsides |
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| Worldwide distribution: | Namibia, Botswana, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, eastern Africa from Ethiopia to southern Africa, extending eastwards to northern Pakistan and Nepal. |
| Botswana distribution: | N,SW,SE |
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| Spot characters: | Display spot characters for this species |
| Literature: |
Chapano, C. & Mugarisanwa, N.H. (2003). Plants of the Matobo District National Herbarium and Botanic Garden, Zimbabwe Page 12. Cope, T.A. (2002). Poaceae Flora Zambesiaca 10(4) Pages 80 - 81. 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 101. Roodt, V. (2015). Grasses & Grazers of Botswana and the surrounding savanna Struik Nature, South Africa Pages 72 - 73. as Cymbopogon plurinodis (Includes a picture). Setshogo, M.P. (2005). Preliminary checklist of the plants of Botswana. Sabonet Report no. 37. Sabonet, Pretoria and Gaborone Page 133. |
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