Details of record no: 94709

Sporobolus ioclados (Trin.) Nees

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Record details:

Date: 09 Feb 1988
Recorder(s):GL Maggs
Collector(s):GL Maggs
190A
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Herbarium:WIND
Habitat:
Location: Caprivi: Near Ngoma; In Terminalia sericea woodland.
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Planted code: Not planted
Country: Namibia (Caprivi Strip)
Quarter Degree Square: 1724D3
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FZ Divisions (Flora Zambesiaca):
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Altitude (metres): 0
Notes: 0.5 m high; Graminoid; Notes: Tufted to somewhat stoloniferous, perennial grass, up to 0,5 m when in flower. Culms geniculate ascending, rooting from lower nodes, glabrous, branched. Leaves basally tufted. Leaf blade narrowly lanceolate, 70 x 3 - 4 mm, grey-green, margins thickened, scabrous, conspicuously hispid, mostly folded. Ligule membranous, somewhat fimbriate with long white hairs continuous on collar. Leaf sheath tightly circumculmate, overlapping basally, blue-green, glabrous but for margins, persistent. Inflorescence narrowly ovate panicle, 150 x 60 mm, 2 secondary axis whorled at 1 -2 cm intervals, ascending, slender, sinuate pedicels apically thickened. Spikelets paired, narrowly ovate, acute, 1,5 cm long, awnless, entirely deciduous.
Latitude, Longitude: -17.875000, 24.625000
Location Accuracy Code: 4

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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: Individual record no: 94709: Sporobolus ioclados.
https://www.zambiaflora.com/speciesdata/species-record.php?record_id=94709, retrieved 26 April 2024

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