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Date: | 13 Feb 1988 |
Recorder(s): | GL Maggs |
Collector(s): | GL Maggs 251 |
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Herbarium: | WIND |
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Location: | Caprivi: Lutalo, west of Katima Mulilo. |
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Planted code: | Not planted |
Country: | Namibia (Caprivi Strip) |
Quarter Degree Square: | 1724C1 |
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Altitude (metres): | 0 |
Notes: | Graminoid; Notes: Tall, erectly tufted, perennial grass, up to 1.25 m when in flower. Culm erect to slightly geniculate at base, terete, sturdy and reed-like, green-yellow maturing to straw-coloured, striate but glabrous, nodes purple-banded with a ring of long, white, straight silky hairs. Leaf blade tightly rolled and needle-like tapering to a sharp apex, dull grey-green with scattered, long white hairs, base somewhat auriculate but not pronounced so. Ligule membranous, orange-brown, well-exerted, 3-lobed with long purplish hairs extending onto collar. Leaf sheath open and only slightly imbricate basally, yellow-green with dense long white straight indumentum (hairs with bulbous podia). Inflorescence 1(-2) - spicate racemes, up to 30 cm long (1 raceme shorter than the other), closely arranged, erect, sheath lacking. Spikelet paired; upper spikelet with awn: pale yellow, sinuate with dense white indumentum; lower spikelet awnless. Glumes green, membranous, densely pubescent. Pedicel with basal cluster of dense white bristles. Anthers 4 mm long bearing bright golden yellow pollen. |
Latitude, Longitude: | -17.625000, 24.125000 |
Location Accuracy Code: | 5 |