Hemarthria altissima (Poir.) Stapf & C.E. Hubb.

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Records of this taxon from Caprivi are shown in the table below. Cases where the taxon is native, naturalised, possibly planted or definitely planted are all listed.

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Record number No of images Record date Recorder(s) Coll. Det. Conf. Herbaria Habitat Location Loc code(s) Outing code Planted code Country QDS Grid ref. FZ Div Alt. (m) Notes Lat Long Loc Acc Code
94338018 Feb 1988GL Maggs
GL Maggs
375
WIND

Caprivi: Inkasa Island: malopo on banks of Linyanti River.0Namibia (Caprivi Strip)1724C3 0Graminoid; Notes: Prostrate, creeping, perennial grass growing along water stream. Culms limp, prostrate, ascending somewhat apically to bear inflorescence, much branched, bright green with geniculate nodes dark-banded, glabrous, rooting from lower nodes. Leaf blade narrowly lanceolate, gradually tapering but apex obtuse, 10 - 20 cm long, up to 4 mm wide, expanded or folded, tip often withering and curled, bright green to purple-tinted, conspicuously white-ribbed, more or less glabrous, margins scabrous, base somewhat auriculate with collar brown and membranous. Ligule a membranous ridge bearing a short fringe of hairs, not extending onto collar. Leaf sheath loosely circumculmate, keeled, margins hyaline, upper margin densely ciliate, blue to bright green with various degree of purple-tinting, glabrous. Inflorescence a cylindrical spike, 10 - 12 x 2 - 3 mm, erect, rigid, straight to somewhat falcate. Spikelets sessile, densely arranged along axis, ovoid but flattened, ca. 5 x 1,5 mm. Glumes grey-green to purple, coriaceous, glaucous, adpressed against axis but apically reflexed. Stigma branches laterally exerted. Awnless.-17.87500024.1250004
93243017 May 1966KL Tinley
KL Tinley
1450
WIND

Dominant in lower parts of seasonally waterlogged and inundated dambos in sandveld.Caprivi: Western Caprivi Strip. Near Bwabwata Camp.0Namibia (Caprivi Strip)1722D3 0Tufted and stoloniferous.-17.87500022.6250005
94003022 Dec 1958DJB Killick
OA Leistner
DJB Killick
OA Leistner
3044
WIND

Caprivi: East Caprivi Strip. About 8 miles from Katima Mulilo on road to Ngoma.0Namibia (Caprivi Strip)1724C2 03.6 feet high.-17.62500024.3750005

Total records found: 3



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 Caprivi: Species information: Records of: Hemarthria altissima.
https://www.capriviflora.com/speciesdata/species-display.php?species_id=109170, retrieved 28 March 2024

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