Stipagrostis ciliata
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| Family: | Poaceae |
| Full name: | Stipagrostis ciliata (Desf.) De Winter |
| ID status: | Fairly certain |
| Afrikaans common name(s): | Langbeenboesmangras |
| English common name(s): | Tall bushman grass |
| Synonym(s): | - |
| Status: | Native |
| Description: | Perennial up to 85 cm high, densely or laxly caespitose. Culms erect or geniculately ascending, simple, mostly branched at the base, glabrous, 2-3-noded; nodes barbate (with long spreading hairs). Leaf-sheaths crowded at the base, striate, whitish, glabrous or more or less woolly along the margins, sometimes densely villose, the upper ones tight. Ligule a short-ciliate rim; auricles short-ciliate, those of innovations long-barbate; collar glabrous. Leaf-laminae variable in length, convolute, nearly setaceous to pungent, more or less recurved, scabrous or minutely pubescent or hirtellous above, glabrous and smooth or sparsely pilose beneath. Panicle up to 30 cm long, usually narrowly contracted but often open and sometimes lax, with a nearly glabrous axis, and with erect, appressed, solitary or usually 2-nate branches. Spikelets linear-oblong, pallid or straw-coloured, often with purple spot at the base. Glumes nearly equal, 3-nerved, usually glabrous, obtuse or subacute, subcoriaceous; the inferior 8.5-11 mm long, the superior 9-12 mm long. Lemma shorter than the glumes, cylindric, smooth, articulated near the middle; callus 1.5-2.5 mm long, very acute, long-hairy; column 10-13 mm long, straight or slightly twisted, filiform; central awn up to 4.5 cm long, plumose, more or less naked in the lower 1/4, with a short naked exserted apex; the lateral awns 1.5-2 cm long, very fine, mostly erect, scaberulous. (from JSTOR website / Flora Zambesiaca) |
| Link(s) |
African Plant Database
JSTOR Plant Science Kew Herbarium Catalogue BGBM Berlin-Dahlem - Virtual Herbarium Züricher Herbarien Flora of Zimbabwe Fleurs de notre Terre - Galerie Namibie |
| Content last updated: | 22 Nov 2011 |
