Harpachne schimperi Hochst. ex A. Rich.

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Harpachne schimperi

Picture: Bart Wursten
Mukuvisi Woodland, office area

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Densely caespitose perennial; culms up to 60 cm tall, erect or ascending from a procumbent base, simple or branched at the lower nodes, wiry; leaf laminas 3–20 cm × 1–4 mm, flat or convolute, tapering to a fine point.Inflorescence 3–8(10) cm long, oblong, the spikelets densely crowded; pedicels 2–4 mm long, villous, usually unbranched but the lowermost occasionally carrying 2 spikelets.Spikelets 10–14(17) mm long, 6–13-flowered, cuneate, the florets loosely imbricate with the slender sinuous rhachilla often visible, pale green tinged with purple; glumes linear-oblong, subacute, the inferior 1.6–2 mm long, the superior 2.8–3.5 mm long; lowermost lemma (3)3.2–3.5 mm long, lanceolate in profile, acute, successive lemmas becoming progressively narrower and more sharply pointed, the longest 4–6.8 mm long, thinly membranous or sometimes cartilaginous in the lower third.
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Derivation of specific name: schimperi: named after Wilhelm Schimper, explorer and collector, particularly in Ethiopia.
Habitat: Growing on waste ground and disturbed areas, in dry grassland and open woodland, often forming extensive colonies
Altitude range: 1500 - 1700 m
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Worldwide distribution: NE and East Africa from Sudan southwards to Zimbabwe, Zambia, also in Arabia
Zambian distribution (Flora Zambesiaca): N
Zambian distribution (Provinces): Lp,N
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Literature:

Cope, T.A. (1999). Poaceae Flora Zambesiaca 10(2) Pages 153 - 154. (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.

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Copyright: Mike Bingham, Annette Willemen, Bart Wursten, Petra Ballings and Mark Hyde, 2011-24

Bingham, M.G., Willemen, A., Wursten, B.T., Ballings, P. and Hyde, M.A. (2024). Flora of Zambia: Species information: Harpachne schimperi.
https://www.zambiaflora.com/speciesdata/species.php?species_id=105330, retrieved 28 March 2024

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