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| Date: | 10 Feb 1988 |
| Recorder(s): | GL Maggs |
| Collector(s): | GL Maggs 219 |
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| Herbarium: | WIND |
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| Location: | Caprivi: 2 km north of Bukalo on road to Katima Mulilo - grassy malapo. |
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| Planted code: | Not planted |
| Country: | Namibia (Caprivi Strip) |
| Quarter Degree Square: | 1724D1 |
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| Altitude (metres): | 0 |
| Notes: | Graminoid; Notes: Tall, tufted, perennial grass, up to 1.5 m high when in flower. Culms erect, rigid, reed-like, terete, yellowish with brown-banded nodes, glabrous smooth. Leaf blade expanded, gradually tapering over a length of up to 30 cm, up to 1.5 cm wide canaliculate, dull green, stiff, glabrous, rounded at base to constrict at collar. Ligule a narrow membranous ridge, dark brown, glabrous. Leaf sheath 120 mm long, tightly circumculmate but not overlapping, glabrous. Inflorescence a compound panicle, 15 - 20 cm long. Raceme up to 3 cm long, enclosed in narrowly ovate, membranous sheath. Spikelets narrowly ellipsoid, 3 x 1 mm; glumes greenish, not all awned. Awns long, fine, purple-based. Pollen golden yellow. |
| Latitude, Longitude: | -17.625000, 24.625000 |
| Location Accuracy Code: | 4 |