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| Synonyms: |
Andropogon affinis R. Br. Andropogon sericeus R. Br. Dichanthium acutiusculum (Hack.) A. Camus |
| Common names: | Queensland bluegrass (English) |
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| Status: | Cultivated and possibly naturalised |
| Description: |
Tufted perennial with short rhizomes. Culms up to 1 m, robust; nodes exposed and bearded. Inflorescence digitate with 1-15 sessile or subsessile, white-villous racemes; culm below the inflorescence glabrous. Sessile spikelets: lower glume with tubercle-based cilia along the margins and forming a transverse subapical fringe; lower floret barren; upper floret stipitiform, awn c. 30 mm long. |
| Notes: | This Australian species is recorded in Setshogo (2005) as being a 'naturalised or introduced plant' in Botswana but the entry is also marked as only 'possibly occurring in Botswana' suggesting there may be some doubt. It is also recorded for Botswana as a naturalised species in A checklist of Botswana grasses (Kabelo and Mafokate (2004)). |
| Derivation of specific name: | sericeum: with silky appressed hairs, sericeous |
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| Worldwide distribution: | Native of Australia. |
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| Spot characters: | Display spot characters for this species |
| Literature: |
Cope, T.A. (2002). Poaceae Flora Zambesiaca 10(4) Pages 41 - 42. Jackson, G. & Wiehe, P.O. (1958). An Annotated Check List of Nyasaland Grasses The Government Printer, Zomba, Nyasaland Page 66. As Dicanthium sericeum Kabelo, M. & Mafokate, D. (2004). A checklist of Botswana grasses Southern African Botanical Diversity Network Report No 24. Sabonet, Pretoria and Gaborone Page 6. 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 102. Setshogo, M.P. (2005). Preliminary checklist of the plants of Botswana. Sabonet Report no. 37. Sabonet, Pretoria and Gaborone Page 134. |
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