Hyparrhenia collina (Pilg.) Stapf

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Synonyms: Andropogon collinus Pilg.
Cymbopogon collinus Pilg.
Cymbopogon scabrimarginatus De Wild.
Hyparrhenia scabrimarginata (De Wild.) Robyns
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Status: Native
Description:
Laxly caespitose perennial arising from a short rhizome clad in white cataphylls; culms up to 130 cm high and 1–3 mm in diameter at the base, erect or ascending, wiry and slender, without stilt roots. Leaf sheaths glabrous (rarely the inner, protected, ones pubescent); leaf laminas up to 30 cm × 2–5 mm, firm but not rigid, scabrid on the margins and scaberulous on the nerves. False panicle 15–40 cm long, narrow, scanty; spatheoles 2–4 cm long, narrowly lanceolate, glabrous or thinly hirsute, turning reddish-brown; peduncles 1–2.5 cm long, a little over half as long as the spatheole, pilose above with yellowish hairs; racemes 1–2 cm long, 4–7-awned per pair, laterally exserted, deflexed; raceme-bases subequal, the superior 1–1.5 mm long, flattened, stiffly barbate, with an inconspicuous scarious rim. Homogamous spikelets 5–6 mm long, a single pair at the base of the inferior raceme only, villous with white hairs. Sessile spikelets 4.5–5 mm long; callus c. 0.5 mm long, cuneate, narrowly obtuse at the apex; inferior glume oblong-lanceolate, usually dark purple beneath a covering of white hairs; awn 1.5–2.5 cm long, the column puberulous with pallid hairs. Pedicelled spikelets 4–7 mm long, villous with white hairs, terminating in a short awn-point 1–3 mm long; callus scarcely developed; pedicel-tooth obscure.
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Derivation of specific name: collina: of the hills, growing on hills
Habitat: Growing in upland grassland, deciduous bushland and wooded grassland, usually on damp soils, especially on riverbanks and in dambos
Altitude range: 910 - 1680 m
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Worldwide distribution: Mainly in eastern Africa but extending north to Sudan, west to Cameroon and south to South Africa
Zambian distribution (Flora Zambesiaca): N,C
Zambian distribution (Provinces): Cb
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Literature:

Cope, T.A. (2002). Poaceae Flora Zambesiaca 10(4) Page 124.

Jackson, G. & Wiehe, P.O. (1958). An Annotated Check List of Nyasaland Grasses The Government Printer, Zomba, Nyasaland Page 43.

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: Hyparrhenia collina.
https://www.zambiaflora.com/speciesdata/species.php?species_id=108810, retrieved 29 March 2024

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