Details of record no: 94334

Eragrostis superba Peyr.

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Date: 15 Feb 1988
Recorder(s):GL Maggs
Collector(s):GL Maggs
272
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Herbarium:WIND
Habitat:
Location: Caprivi: 7 km along turn-off to Chinchimane from National Road - Terminalia sericea woodland.
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Planted code: Not planted
Country: Namibia (Caprivi Strip)
Quarter Degree Square: 1724C3
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Altitude (metres): 0
Notes: Graminoid; Notes: Tall, tufted, perennial grass, up to 1,5 m high when in flower. Culms ascending but relatively geniculate at base, rooting from nodes of procumbent culms, sturdy terete, greenish to straw-coloured to purple-tinted, smooth, glabrous, arising from creeping, woody rhizome. Leaf blades linear, tapering gradually to needle-like tip, 10 - 40 cm long, folded out commonly tightly involuted never expanded, blue-green, hard in texture, ascending, rigid, about glabrous, base notched. Ligule a membranous, narrow are fringed with dense, cream-coloured hairs, about 1,5 mm long, extending onto collar region. Leaf sheath tightly circumculmate, yellow-green to distinctly purple at base, up to 10 cm long, canaliculate, glabrous, persistent. Inflorescence an open panicle, 30 - 40 cm long, borne on long slender peduncle. Raceme arranged basally at 6 - 10 cm intervals, more congested terminally, up to 180 mm long, slender, drooping. Spikelets pendulous, ovoid, laterally flattened, up to 15 x 8 millimetre, flowers arranged basally at 6 - 10 cm intervals, more congested terminally, up to 180 mm long, slender, drooping. Spikelets pendulous, ovoid, laterally flattened, up to 15 x 8 mm, flowers arranged alternately in 2 rows. Glumes membranous, cream to purple with green ribs, glabrous, awns lacking.
Latitude, Longitude: -17.875000, 24.125000
Location Accuracy Code: 4

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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: Individual record no: 94334: Eragrostis superba.
https://www.botswanaflora.com/speciesdata/species-record.php?record_id=94334, retrieved 28 March 2024

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