Hyperthelia dissoluta (Steud.) Clayton

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Records of this taxon from all countries are shown in the table below. Cases where the taxon is native, naturalised, possibly planted or definitely planted are all listed.

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Record number No of images Record date Recorder(s) Coll. Det. Conf. Herbaria Habitat Location Loc code(s) Outing code Planted code Country QDS Grid ref. FZ Div Alt. (m) Notes Lat Long Loc Acc Code
94518010 Feb 1988GL Maggs
GL Maggs
220
WIND

Caprivi: 2 km of Bukalo on road to Katima Mulilo grassy malapo.0Namibia (Caprivi Strip)1724D1 0Graminoid; Notes: Tall, tufted, perennial grass, up to 2 m high when in flower. Culms erect, reed-like, terete, pinkish yellow, slightly glaucous, glabrous, nodes orange-brown-banded, stiff, rigid. Leaf blade inconspicuous between dense peduncles, expanded, gradually tapering over a length of up to 35 cm, broadest at base, 12 mm, auriculate, smooth but parchment-like to the touch, glabrous, adaxially canaliculate. Ligule a narrow, rounded, membranous, brown ridge. Leaf sheath short, mostly 10 cm long, not overlapping, glabrous, dull green but brown to purple-tinted at base. Inflorescence an axillary panicle, 20 - 25 cm long, borne on short, slender peduncle, usually 80 - 100 mm long, pinkish yellow. Raceme sheathed; spathe lanceolate 80 mm long, as for leaf blade. Spikelet large, ellipsoid, 20 mm long with single awn. Awn long, undulate, up to 10 cm long, dark brown, apically contorted, covered in short dense bristles. Stigma purple-black.-17.62500024.6250004
1132220 2001Maputo Elephant Reserve2260Mozambique2632B4 (QDS approximate)M0Listed in SABONET News 7(1), 2001 23-29 Provisional Plant Checklist of the Maputo Elephant Reserve.2
94340016 Feb 1988GL Maggs
GL Maggs
291
WIND

Caprivi: 32 km along Chinchimane turn-off from National road.0Namibia (Caprivi Strip)1724C3 0Graminoid; Notes: Tall, erectly tufted perennial grass, up to 1.5 m when in flower. Culms basally slightly geniculate but generally ascending, reed-like, hollow, sturdy, rigid, pale green to yellowish straw-coloured, terete, glaucous, glabrous, nodes not conspicuously gibbose, dark-banded, unbranched. Leaf blade linear, up to 50 cm long, expanded to involute but seldom rolled, dull bluish-green, reddish tinted, tapering gradually to very fine apex, minutely setulose especially along margins, rigid and hard to the touch, base not auriculate. Ligule membranous ridged with scattered, soft, white indumentum continuous onto collar region. Leaf sheath apically with 2 projections on either side of culm, upper margin with long white ciliate indumentum, open and keeled, imbricate at base, deeply canaliculate, straw-coloured with pink-red tinge, glabrous. Inflorescence a complex arrangement of spathulate racemes in spathulate panicle, elongate in broad outline, 25 - 35 x 2.5 cm. Spathes red to yellow-brown glabrous. Spikelets narrowly ellipsoid, 10 x 1 - 1.5 mm, heterogenous; female spikelet bearing long, twisted, hairy awn, sessile; male spikelet stalked, awnless. Glumes glabrous, occasionally ciliate; stalks densely pubescent.-17.87500024.1250004
17341028 Feb 1984MA Hyde
Paget Rd10Zimbabwe1731C3 TR965262C00
17342008 Dec 1985MA Hyde
Cnr Glen Helen Way/ Enterprise Rd10Zimbabwe1731C1 UR045369C00
17343011 Jan 1986MA Hyde
Harare Drive, Borrowdale10Zimbabwe1731C1 TR980375C00
17344022 Mar 1986MA Hyde
Valley at SE end of Cleveland Dam1,30Zimbabwe1731C3 UR036262C00
17345003 May 1986MA Hyde
Cnr Eltham Rd/ Willowvale Rd10Zimbabwe1730D4 TR869223C00
17346010 May 1986MA Hyde
Dry roadsideBlatherwick Road / Ford Rd10Zimbabwe1731C3 TR975254C00
17347021 Jun 1986MA Hyde
In woodlandGolden Quarry Rd10Zimbabwe1730D4 TR864284C00
17348011 Oct 1986MA Hyde
RoadsideKennedy Drive, Greendale10Zimbabwe1731C3 UR023301C00
17349027 Sep 1987MA Hyde
RoadsideFaber Rd, nr cnr with Kermode Rd10Zimbabwe1730D4 TR867329C00
17350024 Oct 1987MA Hyde
Thin woodlandBy Dieppe Rd10Zimbabwe1731C3 TR950257C00
17351027 Jan 1990MA Hyde
In sandy woodlandNE cnr of Mukuvisi Woodland1,20Zimbabwe1731C3 TR985268C00
93900017 Jun 2010S Rügheimer
S Rügheimer
3063
MM Hochobes
WIND

Occasional in marshland.Caprivi, Katima Mulilo: Kasheshe.0Namibia (Caprivi Strip)1724C1 0Tall marshland grass with untidy inflorescence, 1.6 m high. Inflorescence fanning out and in regular intervals along the culms. Spikelets with long brown wiry awns.-17.69333324.1544445
701080 Mount Mulanje1790Malawi1535D3 S00
95207016 Jun 1971JWH Giess
JWH Giess
11409
JWH Giess
WIND

Clay, grey-black ground.Caprivi: At Dikundu (19.2 km south of Andara, on haversted mahangofield).0Namibia (Caprivi Strip)1821A2 0Perennial.-18.12500021.3750002
94859018 Feb 1988GL Maggs
GL Maggs
389
WIND

Caprivi: Inkasa Island: malapo on banks of Linyanti river.2080Namibia (Caprivi Strip)1725C3 930Graminoid; Notes: Tall tufted, perennial grass, up to 1.5 m when in flower. Culm erect to slightly geniculate at base reed-like, terete, dull green to beige with nodes marked by purplish band, glabrous. Leaf blade tightly rolled, basally concentrated, 10 - 15 cm long, base clearly auriculate, dull green, glabrous, rigid, margins scabrous. Ligule a membranous ridge without indumentum, pale brown. Leaf base loosely circumculmate, becoming only slightly imbricate at extreme base, glabrous. Inflorescence an open, interrupted panicle, subtended by foliaceous spathe, up to 50 cm long. Racemes subtended by foliaceous spathes, 20 cm long, ca. 4 - 6 spikelets per raceme. Spikelet subtended by lanceolate spathe, 3-flowered, 1 cm long. Awn twisted, yellowish, bent, 80 mm long with dense white adpressed indumentum. Stalks with dense, white, bristly indumentum.-17.78330025.2075005
14858031 Jan 2000MA Hyde
M Silva-Jones
A MacNaughtan
Old landsMapor Estate, Odzi130Zimbabwe1932A2 VP374931E9900
27293011 Jan 2010MA Hyde
BT Wursten
P Ballings
WoodlandRoad from Robins Camp to the Matetsi Safari Area gate, Hwange NP5
6
0Zimbabwe1825D2 W990-18.60772025.9445000
93438023 Jan 2005S Bartsch
MM Hochobes
S Kruger
ES Klaassen
D Lutombi
ES Klaassen
1418
C Mannheimer
WIND

Okavango, Rundu District: Road from Kongola Airstrip, in a westerly direction.0Namibia (Caprivi Strip)1723C1 9982 m high; grass; Notes: Tufted, 2 m high, yellow-green in colour grass. Ligule a triangular membrane. Spikelets terminal, pedicellate. Common, in sandy soil, in full sun.-17.74972023.1594405
93157024 Jan 2005S Bartsch
MM Hochobes
S Kruger
ES Klaassen
D Lutombi
ES Klaassen
1427
C Mannheimer
WIND

Okavango, Rundu District: Road from Omega III to Divundu.0Namibia (Caprivi Strip)1722C4 10162 m high; grass; Notes: Tufted, yellow-green 2 m high grass. Leaves ovate, tapering to a sharp point. Ligule a membrane. Inflorescence a terminal raceme. Occasional.-17.97583022.4833305
95399020 Jan 2005S Bartsch
MM Hochobes
S Kruger
ES Klaassen
D Lutombi
ES Klaassen
1335
C Mannheimer
WIND

Okavango, Rundu District: Bagani to Kongola.0Namibia (Caprivi Strip)1822A1 1027grass; Notes: Tufted, yellow-green grass. Ligule a triangular membrane. Spikelets terminal, pedicellate.-18.04417022.0116702
26596005 Jan 2010MA Hyde
BT Wursten
P Ballings
Woodland on Kalahari sand Hwange NP, on loop from Main Camp through Dopi Pan5
6
0Zimbabwe1826D4 W1070-18.75120026.9702400
63886005 Mar 1965EA Robinson
EA Robinson
R 6407
Peat bogChakwenga Headwaters area1710Zambia1529A2 C1075From E.A.Robinson's collection written by Bob Drummond-15.15210029.3537004
36498012 Jan 2011MA Hyde
BT Wursten
P Ballings
Roadside bank in open woodlandKaroi-Chirundu road near Makuti
9
0Zimbabwe1629A4 N1110-16.37510029.3363607
95741007 Apr 2018MA Hyde
MA Hyde
RoadsideMazvikadei Dam260Zimbabwe1730A2 N1155-17.22131930.3847847
82562020 Feb 1996SA Renvoize
SA Renvoize
5649
Grassland with a few small trees and occasional groups of large termite mounds. Flooded in the wet season; burnt each year in the dry season. Soil sandy. Disturbed ground beside road.Luapula District; Kalasa Mukoso Flats.0Zambia N1200Robust tufted grass up to 3 metres high. Stems bright yellow, contrasting with the green leaf sheaths. Inflorescence compound, up to 1 metre long.0
27506013 Jan 2010MA Hyde
BT Wursten
P Ballings
Rocky woodlandKhami Ruins69,81
6
0Zimbabwe2028A2 W1300-20.14313028.4230500
295500 Dec 1957OB Miller
OB Miller
4864
SRGH

GrasslandFarm Besna Kobila570Zimbabwe2028B3 W1460Grass to 5 ft high. Inflorescence with bright yellow bodies. [See note 16]0
30334017 May 1996MA Hyde
RB Drummond
Near streamHatfield, Harare10Zimbabwe1731C3 TR950238C14600
38828013 Jan 2012MA Hyde
BT Wursten
M Coates Palgrave
P Ballings
Bare area of herbs and low shrubs by roadMpinge Pass, Great Dyke
14
0Zimbabwe1630D4 N1460-16.89085030.8177307
82561022 May 2013 Pasquet
Pasquet
1216
EA Kellogg
RoadsideRoad from Serenje to Mansa.0Zambia1330A1 C1480-13.24888930.2411115
6153009 Apr 2006MA Hyde
Sandy open miombo woodlandNr bridge over Mukuvisi R., Mukuvisi Woodland1,20Zimbabwe1731C3 TR978256C1490-17.85100031.0915806
16169028 Apr 2007MA Hyde
RoadsideBy main Harare - Mutare rd by Ruwa Scout Park340Zimbabwe1731C3 UR115223C15300
909900 2000TM Müller
VleiHaka Game Reserve, Harare1,30Zimbabwe1731C3 C1540Extracted from a list in Muller (2002) of grasses and sedges recorded on 2 February and 9 March, 2000.0
162012 Jan 2005MA Hyde
BT Wursten
Thin soil patches over rocks or cracks in rocksRocky slopes on left of entry road1,30Zimbabwe1731C3 UR027262C1540-17.84512531.1382150
27613208 Mar 2005MA Hyde
BT Wursten
In sandy grasslandCleveland Dam, near dam wall1,30Zimbabwe1731C3 UR035263C15400
16159015 Apr 2007MA Hyde
M Coates Palgrave
Open sandy miombo woodlandBetween braai area and entrance gate, Haka Game Park, Cleveland Dam1,30Zimbabwe1731C3 UR038272C15500
15052005 Jan 2007MA Hyde
Roadside verge, sandy grasslandBy railway line just off the Harare to Mutare Rd, nr Bromley0Zimbabwe1831A2 UQ292968C16000

Total records found: 40



Copyright: Mark Hyde, Bart Wursten, Petra Ballings and Meg Coates Palgrave, 2014-24

Hyde, M.A., Wursten, B.T., Ballings, P. & Coates Palgrave, M. (2024). Flora of Botswana: Species information: Records of: Hyperthelia dissoluta.
https://www.botswanaflora.com/speciesdata/species-display.php?species_id=109040, retrieved 1 November 2024

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