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Triraphis longipes

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Identification
Isotype of Triraphis longipes Stapf & C.E.Hubb. [family POACEAE ] Nematopoa longipes (Stapf & C.E.Hubb.) C.E.Hubb. [family POACEAE ] (stored under name);
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  • Nematopoa longipes

Flora

Entry for Nematopoa longipes Stapf & C.E. Hubb. C.E. Hubb. [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
Nematopoa longipes Stapf & C.E. Hubb. C.E. Hubb. [family GRAMINEAE], in Kew Bull. 1957: 52 (1957). TAB. 7. Type: Zimbabwe, Harare (Salisbury), iv.1920, Eyles 2167 (K, holotype; BM; SRGH).
Triraphis longipes Stapf & C.E. Hubb. [family GRAMINEAE], in Bull. Misc. Inform., Kew 1927: 73, fig. 2 (1927). —Stent & Rattray in Proc. & Trans. Rhodesia Sci. Assoc. 32: 62 (1933). —Sturgeon in Rhodesia Agric. J. 51: 293 (1954).
Crinipes longipes Stapf & C.E. Hubb. C.E. Hubb. [family GRAMINEAE], in Bull. Misc. Inform., Kew 1935: 306 (1935).
Information
Loosely caespitose perennial up to 80 cm tall, arising from a slender rhizome and forming tufts up to 30 cm in diameter; culms erect, slender; leaf lamina 7–25 cm long, filiform, flexuous, firm but not pungent, glabrous.Panicle 6–16 cm long, ovate or oblong, the branches ascending or spreading.Spikelets 4.5–8.5 mm long; inferior glume minute, 0.4–0.9 mm long, narrowly lanceolate, nerveless; superior glume 1.3–1.8 mm long, narrowly oblong-lanceolate to ovate-lanceolate, 0–1-nerved; lemmas 2.8–4.2 mm long, narrowly oblong-lanceolate; awn 11–13 mm long.
Habitat
Seasonally waterlogged and swampy grassland
Range
Known only from the Flora Zambesiaca area
Distribution
Zimbabwe C Harare (Salisbury), 1440 m, iv.1920, Eyles 2167 (BM; K; SRGH).Zimbabwe N Gokwe Distr., Sengwa River, off southern border of Charama Plateau, 1220 m, 27.iv.1965, Simon 281 (BM; SRGH).Zambia C Serenje Distr., Kundalila Falls, 13 km SE of Kanona, 5.iv.1961, Phipps & Vesey-FitzGerald 2960 (SRGH).

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