Details of record no: 94789

Andropogon eucomus Nees
subsp. eucomus

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Record details:

Date: 18 Feb 1988
Recorder(s):GL Maggs
Collector(s):GL Maggs
332
Determiner(s):
Confirmer(s):
Herbarium:WIND
Habitat:
Location: Caprivi: Inkasa Island: malapo on banks of Linyanti River.
Location code(s): 208
Outing code:
Planted code: Not planted
Country: Namibia (Caprivi Strip)
Quarter Degree Square: 1725C3
Grid reference:
FZ Division:
Altitude (metres): 930
Notes: Graminoid; Notes: short, densely-tufted, perennial grass, up to 80 cm high when in flower. Culm erect but basally usually geniculate, terete, slender, green to straw-coloured but becoming conspicuously purple-tinted when exposed, glabrous, nodes deep purple-banded but glabrous, branched. Leaf blade tightly folded, 70 - 120 mm long, gradually tapering to acute apex, 3 - 4 mm broad, acutely arranged but can recurve slightly at apex, hard and scabrous to the touch, bright-green to blue-green, margin thickened, minutely setulose, can also have basally scattered, long, white, sericeous hairs, base undifferentiated to very slightly notched. Ligule an arc shaped ridge bearing a fringe of short, white, densely packed hairs with long, white sericeous hairs conspicuous on collar. Leaf sheath loosely circumculmate, often open to base, blue-green with hyaline margins, 70 mm long, canaliculate, glabrous, persistent. Inflorescence with racemes digitately clustered, cuneate in outline. Raceme 2.5 - 6 cm long, 3 mm wide. Spikelets arranged alternately along axis, narrowly ellipsoid, 2. 5 x 0.5 mm, masked by conspicuous awns. Glumes membranous, purple-brown with dense, long, white, sericeous indumentum.
Latitude, Longitude: -17.783300, 25.207500
Location Accuracy Code: 5

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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: Individual record no: 94789: Andropogon eucomus.
https://www.capriviflora.com/speciesdata/species-record.php?record_id=94789, retrieved 28 March 2024

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