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Date: | 18 Feb 1988 |
Recorder(s): | GL Maggs |
Collector(s): | GL Maggs 383 |
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): | |
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Altitude (metres): | 930 |
Notes: | Graminoid; Notes: Shorty-tufted, spiny, perennial grass, stoloniferous, forming over dense cover, 40 - 50 cm high when in flower. Culms erect to geniculate, rooting at nodes, slender, terete, glabrous, dull yellow-green. Leaves basal with bases persistent. Leaf blade tightly rolled, conspicuously spine-tipped, rigid and erect, grey-green, 20 - 150 mm long, slightly auriculate and yellow at base, abax. with long, white hairs especially basally also conspicuously ciliate. Ligule a narrow fringe of white hairs, 1 mm wide. Leaf sheath short, at most 40 mm long, not circumbulmate glabrous but finely ciliate along margin. Inflorescence a contracted panicle, spicate, 10 - 12 cm x 3 mm, borne on long, slender, articulated peduncle. Lateral spikes up to 1 cm long, erect against apex. Spikelets awnless, minute, 2 mm long, densely arranged, entirely deciduous. |
Latitude, Longitude: | -17.783300, 25.207500 |
Location Accuracy Code: | 5 |
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