Urochloa xantholeuca
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Maleme Dam Rest Camp, Matobo National Park
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Maleme Dam Rest Camp, Matobo National Park
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Maleme Dam Rest Camp, Matobo National Park
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Maleme Dam Rest Camp, Matobo National Park
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| Synonyms: |
Brachiaria xantholeuca (Schinz) Stapf Panicum xantholeucum Schinz |
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| Status: | Native |
| Description: |
Tufted annual grass with culms 10–60 cm high. Leaves velvety pubescent. Inflorescence of 2–8 racemes, 1–7 cm long, bearing single spikelets in 2 neat rows on a 3-sided rhachis (rarely spikelets paired at base of longer racemes). Spikelets 2.7–4 mm long, hispidulous, borne on a stipe c. 0.5 mm long. Inferior glume 1/3–1/2 length of spikelet. Superior lemma with a rough surface. |
| Type location: |
Namibia |
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| Habitat: | In mopane woodland, usually in disturbed or overgrazed places. |
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| Worldwide distribution: | Widespread in tropical Africa. |
| FZ divisions: | N |
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| Spot characters: | Display spot characters for this species |
| Literature: |
Chapano, C. & Mugarisanwa, N.H. (2003). Plants of the Matobo District National Herbarium and Botanic Garden, Zimbabwe Page 6. as Brachiaria xantholeuca Clayton, W.D. (1989). Poaceae Flora Zambesiaca 10(3) Page 76. as Brachiaria xantholeuca 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 101. as Brachiaria xantholeuca Setshogo, M.P. (2005). Preliminary checklist of the plants of Botswana. Sabonet Report no. 37. Sabonet, Pretoria and Gaborone Page 132. as Brachiaria xantholeuca |
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