Details of record no: 94876

Panicum trichonode Launert & Renvoize

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Record details:

Date: 18 Feb 1988
Recorder(s):GL Maggs
Collector(s):GL Maggs
342
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Confirmer(s):
Herbarium:WIND
Habitat:
Location: Caprivi: Inkasa Island: malapo on banks of Linyandi 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: grass; Notes: Tall tufted perennial up to 1 metre high when in flower. Culms somewhat geniculate at base but generally steeply ascending to erect, smooth and glabrous, covered over entire length by leaf sheaths, green to purple-tinted unbranched. Leaf blades 10-25 cm long, linear to narrowly lanceolate mostly folded but occasionally expanded, gradually tapering to a fine tip, fresh bright green, fairly hard and rigid, glabrous except for lower margins with long white straight indumentum, also somewhat denticulate (=remains of bulbous-based hairs), base rounded to slightly auriculate. Ligule a rim of dense, short, white, straight hairs, mostly confined and not extending onto collar. Leaf sheath 70-110 mm long, overlapping, loosely circumculmate, deeply canaliculate, glabrous, dull green but strongly red-brown to purple-tinted. Inflorescence a panicle, narrowly flabelliform to ovate in outline, 9-14 cm x 3-5 centimetre, initially enclosed in and later peduncle basally subtended by upper leaf. Racemes (25-)40(-60) mm long, alternately arranged on main axis; secondary axis steeply ascending, flexuous, glabrous. Spikelets minutely ovoid, 2.5-3 x 1.5 mm paired, 1 sessile and 1 stalked, stalk apically cupular, pale green, often purple-tinted, glabrous, awnless although upper glume apically aristate. Stigma branches apically exerted, deep purple.
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: 94876: Panicum trichonode.
https://www.capriviflora.com/speciesdata/species-record.php?record_id=94876, retrieved 28 March 2024

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