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| Date: | 9 Feb 1988 |
| Recorder(s): | GL Maggs |
| Collector(s): | GL Maggs 186 |
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| Herbarium: | WIND |
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| Location: | Caprivi: Near Ngoma. |
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| Planted code: | Not planted |
| Country: | Namibia (Caprivi Strip) |
| Quarter Degree Square: | 1724D3 |
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| Altitude (metres): | 0 |
| Notes: | Graminoid; Notes: Tender, tufted, perennial grass, up to 50 cm when in flower. Culms thick, fairly flaccid, mainly prostrate, bright green, canaliculate with dense long white indumentum. Leaf blade broadly linear, up to 40 x 2 cm, yellow-green with white adpressed indumentum, thinly textured. Ligule a dense band of long white hairs. Leaf sheath about 10 cm long, fairly loosely circumculmate. Inflorescence a spaced raceme, up to 3cm long. Spikelets arranged alternately in 2 rows, small, about 1.5 mm long, ovoid, 2-flowered. (lower male, upper female) Glume green to pink, smaller than spikelet. Lemma with fine white, inconspicuous indumentum, apex aristate. Anthers large, 1 mm long, well exerted; pollen golden yellow. In Terminalia sericea woodland. |
| Latitude, Longitude: | -17.875000, 24.625000 |
| Location Accuracy Code: | 4 |