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Rendlia annua

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Name

Identification
Rendlia annua Kupicha & Cope [family POACEAE ] Verified by unknown, Microchloa kunthii Desv. [family POACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Robinson, E. A.,
Related name
  • Microchloa annua
  • Rendlia annua
  • Microchloa kunthii

Flora

Entry for Microchloa annua Kupicha & Cope Cope [family GRAMINEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Zambesiaca
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
FZ, Vol 10, Part 2, (1999) Author: T. Cope
Names
Microchloa annua Kupicha & Cope Cope [family GRAMINEAE], comb. nov. Type: Zambia, Mongu, 6.ii.1966, E.A. Robinson 6832 (K, holotype; SRGH).
Rendlia annua Kupicha & Cope [family GRAMINEAE], in Kew Bull. 40: 90 (1985).
Information
Caespitose annual; culms up to 35 cm tall, leafy throughout; leaf sheaths keeled, lanate, remaining intact; leaf laminas 0.5–3.5 cm × up to 3 mm, usually flat, with thickened whitish margins.Racemes terminal and axillary, 3.5–5.5 cm long, straight or gently falcate, sparsely to densely lanate at the base.Spikelets 2-flowered, 2.4–2.5 mm long; fertile lemma 1.6–1.8 mm long; anthers 1.1–1.2 mm long.Caryopsis not seen.
Habitat
In floodplain grassland on Kalahari Sand at the edge of woodland, and on roadsides
Range
Endemic to the Mongu area
Altitude range
c. 980 m.
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980
Distribution
Zambia B Namushakende Forest Nursery, c. 980 m, 8.ii.1955, Hinds 296 (K; SRGH).

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