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Date: | 18 Feb 1988 |
Recorder(s): | GL Maggs |
Collector(s): | GL Maggs 385 |
Determiner(s): | |
Confirmer(s): | |
Herbarium: | WIND |
Habitat: | |
Location: | Caprivi: Inkasa Island: malapo on banks of Linyandi River. |
Location code(s): | 208 |
Outing code: | |
Planted code: | Not planted |
Country: | Namibia (Caprivi Strip) |
Quarter Degree Square: | 1725C3 |
Grid reference: | |
FZ Divisions (Flora Zambesiaca): | |
Current administrative provinces: | |
Altitude (metres): | 930 |
Notes: | Graminoid; Notes: Tall, tufted, annual grass, up to 1 m high when in flower. Culm erect and shortly articulated, branched, terete, sturdy, smooth, glabrous, beige to purple-tinged. Leaf blade broadly sagittate, short, 5 x 1 cm, dull grey-green with purple tinges, expanded, usually not reflexed, clearly ciliate with margins harshly scabrid, abaxially, conspicuously striate, base auriculate. Ligule an inconspicuous membranous ridge without indumentum. Leaf sheath beige to pale green, glabrous, up to 4 cm long, not overlapping, margins not imbricate or touching although circumculmate. Inflorescence a dense spike, up to 25 cm long, initially sheathed by foliar spathe, rapidly withering; peduncle 10 cm long. Spikelets 2-awned, narrowly ovoid, up to 3 x 0,5 mm, initially adpressed against axis but 1 prior to falling. Awns pale green but later discolouring to deep purple, flexuous, unbristled. |
Latitude, Longitude: | -17.783300, 25.207500 |
Location Accuracy Code: | 5 |
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