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Anthephora ramosa

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Name

Identification
Anthephora ramosa Gooss. [family POACEAE ]
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Flora

Entry for Anthephora pubescens Nees [family GRAMINEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Zambesiaca
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
FZ, Vol 10, Part 3, (1989) Author: W. D. Clayton
Names
Anthephora pubescens Nees [family GRAMINEAE], Fl. Afr. Austr.: 74 (1841). — Chippindall in Meredith, Grasses & Pastures of S. Afr.: 436 (1955). — Launert in Merxm., Prodr. Fl. SW. Afr. 160: 24 (1970). — Clayton & Renvoize in F.T.E.A., Gramineae: 664 (1982). Type from S. Africa.
Anthephora ramosa Goossens [family GRAMINEAE], in Trans. Roy. Soc. S. Afr. 20: 192 (1932). — Chippindall in Meredith, Grasses & Pastures of S. Afr.: 438 (1955). — Launert in Merxm., Prodr. Fl. SW. Afr. 160: 24 (1970). Type from S. Africa.
Information
Tufted perennial. Culms 30–100 cm. high. Leaf laminae 2–7 mm. wide, flat, the base as wide as the sheath, the margins thickened and often crinkled. Panicle 5–25 cm. long. Involucre 5–10 mm. long including awn, bearded below, glabrous to villous above, without cartilaginous margin, acute to acuminate and then often attenuate to an awn up to 4 mm. long. Inferior lemma hirsute above.
Habitat
Savanna woodland
Range
from S. Africa to Mali and eastwards to Iran
Altitude range
600–1300 m.
1300
600
Distribution
Botswana N Maun to Matabe, 19.x.1978, Smith 2498 (K).Zimbabwe S Sengwe Tribal Trust land SE. of Mwenezi, 15.ii.1973, Cleghorn 2911 (K; SRGH).Mozambique GI Massingir, 5 km. from Lagoa Nova, 10.iv.1972, Myre, Lousã & Rosa 5729 (K).Botswana SW Western border of Molopo ranches along Lobatse to Werda road, 31.i.1978, Skarpe S-224 (K).Botswana SE 6 km. W. of Kanye, 15.iv.1978, Hansen (C; GAB; K).
Notes
The size and indumentum of the involucre varies greatly and in the northern part of the range there is intergradation with A. nigritana Stapf & Hubbard, a species having glabrous elliptic (rather than narrowly ovate) bracts.

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