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Odyssea paucinervis Nees Stapf [family GRAMINEAE]

Date Updated: 26 July 2007

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
Odyssea paucinervis Nees Stapf [family GRAMINEAE], in Hooker’s Icon. Pl. 31: t. 3100 (1922). —Chippindall in Meredith, Grasses & Pastures of South Africa: 118, fig. 89 (1955). —Launert in Merxmüller, Prodr. Fl. SW. Afrika, fam. 160: 132 (1970). —Simon in Kirkia 8: 28 & 62 (1971). —S.M. Phillips in F.T.E.A., Gramineae: 288, fig. 79 (1974). —Müller, Grasses of South West Africa/Namibia: 192, fig. 95 (1984). —Gibbs Russell et al., Grasses Southern Africa [Mem. Bot. Surv. S. Africa No. 58]: 226 (1990). TAB. 15. Type from South Africa (Cape Province). Dactylis paucinervis Nees [family GRAMINEAE], Fl. Afr. Austral. Ill.: 429 (1841). Diplachne paucinervis Nees Hack. [family GRAMINEAE], in Bull. Herb. Boissier 4, appendix 3 [Die Pflanzenwelt Deutsch-Südwest-Afrikas]: 25 (1896).
Information
Perennial mat-grass with long stout deeply penetrating rhizomes bearing dense fascicles of spiny glaucous shoots at the nodes; culms up to 35(60) cm tall, ascending, branched only at the base; leaf laminas 0.5–4(5) cm × 1–3(4) mm, linear-lanceolate, convolute-subulate, rigid and pungent.Panicle 2–7 × 0.6–2 cm, linear-oblong to obovate-oblong; racemes 1–3 cm long, erect, bearing 3–14 spikelets.Spikelets 3–7(10)-flowered, 4–12 mm long, elliptic to narrowly oblong-elliptic; glumes unequal, the inferior 1.8–2.4 mm long, broadly lanceolate, acute, the superior 2.7–3.3 mm long, oblong to elliptic-oblong, ± obtuse, sometimes mucronulate; lemmas 2.6–3.5(4) mm long, narrowly ovate.Caryopsis 1.1–1.2 mm long, elliptic-oblong, slightly concave on the hilar side.
Habitat
Colonising and often dominant in extensive open areas of seasonal pans, or fringing small dambos, often in sandy brackish soil near water, sometimes locally frequent on sandy alluvium
Range
Africa south of the Congo River
Altitude range
180–920 m. 920 180
Distribution
Zimbabwe S Ndanga Distr., near Save/Runde (Sabi/Lundi) R. junction, on edge of Rupembi Swamp, 3.xii.1965, Plowes 2741 (BM; K; SRGH).Zimbabwe E Chipinge Distr., E. Save (Sabi), Mutungawuna, 270 m, 23.i.1957, Phipps 141 (K).Zambia B Senanga Distr., Mashi River fringe, 2.x.1964, Verboom 1127 (K).Zimbabwe W Hwange (Wankie) National Park, Sinametella Camp, 30.iii.1967, P.J. Thomson 126 (SRGH).Botswana N NE corner of Makgadikgadi (Makarikari) Pans, 1.6 km east of Nata River mouth, 20.iv.1947, Drummond & Seagrief 5142 (K).
Distribution (external)
Tanzania Somalia

Date Updated: 26 July 2007

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
Odyssea paucinervis Nees Stapf [family GRAMINEAE], in Hooker’s Icon. Pl. 31: t. 3100 (1922). —Chippindall in Meredith, Grasses & Pastures of South Africa: 118, fig. 89 (1955). —Launert in Merxmüller, Prodr. Fl. SW. Afrika, fam. 160: 132 (1970). —Simon in Kirkia 8: 28 & 62 (1971). —S.M. Phillips in F.T.E.A., Gramineae: 288, fig. 79 (1974). —Müller, Grasses of South West Africa/Namibia: 192, fig. 95 (1984). —Gibbs Russell et al., Grasses Southern Africa [Mem. Bot. Surv. S. Africa No. 58]: 226 (1990). TAB. 15. Type from South Africa (Cape Province). Dactylis paucinervis Nees [family GRAMINEAE], Fl. Afr. Austral. Ill.: 429 (1841). Diplachne paucinervis Nees Hack. [family GRAMINEAE], in Bull. Herb. Boissier 4, appendix 3 [Die Pflanzenwelt Deutsch-Südwest-Afrikas]: 25 (1896).
Information
Perennial mat-grass with long stout deeply penetrating rhizomes bearing dense fascicles of spiny glaucous shoots at the nodes; culms up to 35(60) cm tall, ascending, branched only at the base; leaf laminas 0.5–4(5) cm × 1–3(4) mm, linear-lanceolate, convolute-subulate, rigid and pungent.Panicle 2–7 × 0.6–2 cm, linear-oblong to obovate-oblong; racemes 1–3 cm long, erect, bearing 3–14 spikelets.Spikelets 3–7(10)-flowered, 4–12 mm long, elliptic to narrowly oblong-elliptic; glumes unequal, the inferior 1.8–2.4 mm long, broadly lanceolate, acute, the superior 2.7–3.3 mm long, oblong to elliptic-oblong, ± obtuse, sometimes mucronulate; lemmas 2.6–3.5(4) mm long, narrowly ovate.Caryopsis 1.1–1.2 mm long, elliptic-oblong, slightly concave on the hilar side.
Habitat
Colonising and often dominant in extensive open areas of seasonal pans, or fringing small dambos, often in sandy brackish soil near water, sometimes locally frequent on sandy alluvium
Range
Africa south of the Congo River
Altitude range
180–920 m. 920 180
Distribution
Zimbabwe S Ndanga Distr., near Save/Runde (Sabi/Lundi) R. junction, on edge of Rupembi Swamp, 3.xii.1965, Plowes 2741 (BM; K; SRGH).Zimbabwe E Chipinge Distr., E. Save (Sabi), Mutungawuna, 270 m, 23.i.1957, Phipps 141 (K).Zambia B Senanga Distr., Mashi River fringe, 2.x.1964, Verboom 1127 (K).Zimbabwe W Hwange (Wankie) National Park, Sinametella Camp, 30.iii.1967, P.J. Thomson 126 (SRGH).Botswana N NE corner of Makgadikgadi (Makarikari) Pans, 1.6 km east of Nata River mouth, 20.iv.1947, Drummond & Seagrief 5142 (K).
Distribution (external)
Tanzania Somalia

Date Updated: 26 July 2007

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
Odyssea paucinervis Nees Stapf [family GRAMINEAE], in Hooker’s Icon. Pl. 31: t. 3100 (1922). —Chippindall in Meredith, Grasses & Pastures of South Africa: 118, fig. 89 (1955). —Launert in Merxmüller, Prodr. Fl. SW. Afrika, fam. 160: 132 (1970). —Simon in Kirkia 8: 28 & 62 (1971). —S.M. Phillips in F.T.E.A., Gramineae: 288, fig. 79 (1974). —Müller, Grasses of South West Africa/Namibia: 192, fig. 95 (1984). —Gibbs Russell et al., Grasses Southern Africa [Mem. Bot. Surv. S. Africa No. 58]: 226 (1990). TAB. 15. Type from South Africa (Cape Province). Dactylis paucinervis Nees [family GRAMINEAE], Fl. Afr. Austral. Ill.: 429 (1841). Diplachne paucinervis Nees Hack. [family GRAMINEAE], in Bull. Herb. Boissier 4, appendix 3 [Die Pflanzenwelt Deutsch-Südwest-Afrikas]: 25 (1896).
Information
Perennial mat-grass with long stout deeply penetrating rhizomes bearing dense fascicles of spiny glaucous shoots at the nodes; culms up to 35(60) cm tall, ascending, branched only at the base; leaf laminas 0.5–4(5) cm × 1–3(4) mm, linear-lanceolate, convolute-subulate, rigid and pungent.Panicle 2–7 × 0.6–2 cm, linear-oblong to obovate-oblong; racemes 1–3 cm long, erect, bearing 3–14 spikelets.Spikelets 3–7(10)-flowered, 4–12 mm long, elliptic to narrowly oblong-elliptic; glumes unequal, the inferior 1.8–2.4 mm long, broadly lanceolate, acute, the superior 2.7–3.3 mm long, oblong to elliptic-oblong, ± obtuse, sometimes mucronulate; lemmas 2.6–3.5(4) mm long, narrowly ovate.Caryopsis 1.1–1.2 mm long, elliptic-oblong, slightly concave on the hilar side.
Habitat
Colonising and often dominant in extensive open areas of seasonal pans, or fringing small dambos, often in sandy brackish soil near water, sometimes locally frequent on sandy alluvium
Range
Africa south of the Congo River
Altitude range
180–920 m. 920 180
Distribution
Zimbabwe S Ndanga Distr., near Save/Runde (Sabi/Lundi) R. junction, on edge of Rupembi Swamp, 3.xii.1965, Plowes 2741 (BM; K; SRGH).Zimbabwe E Chipinge Distr., E. Save (Sabi), Mutungawuna, 270 m, 23.i.1957, Phipps 141 (K).Zambia B Senanga Distr., Mashi River fringe, 2.x.1964, Verboom 1127 (K).Zimbabwe W Hwange (Wankie) National Park, Sinametella Camp, 30.iii.1967, P.J. Thomson 126 (SRGH).Botswana N NE corner of Makgadikgadi (Makarikari) Pans, 1.6 km east of Nata River mouth, 20.iv.1947, Drummond & Seagrief 5142 (K).
Distribution (external)
Tanzania Somalia
Odyssea paucinervis Nees Stapf [family GRAMINEAE]
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