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Lophacme digitata 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
Lophacme digitata Stapf [family GRAMINEAE], in Hooker’s Icon. Pl. 27: t. 2611 (1899). —Chippindall in Meredith, Grasses & Pastures of South Africa: 127, fig. 101 (1955). —Simon in Kirkia 8: 28 & 62 (1971). —Gibbs Russell et al., Grasses Southern Africa [Mem. Bot. Surv. S. Africa No. 58]: 204 (1990). TAB. 18. Type from South Africa (Transvaal).
Information
Caespitose perennial; culms up to 50 cm tall, erect or ascending, wiry; leaf laminas (1)2–6(9) cm × 1.5–2.7(3) mm, narrowly linear, rather stiff, glaucous, flat or more often involute.Racemes 3–8 cm long, slender, loose, flexuous.Spikelets 4.6–6.5 mm long (excluding the awns); inferior glume 3.4–5.1 mm long, (0.8)0.9–1.2 times the length of the lowermost lemma; superior glume ± as long as the spikelet; fertile lemmas 1–2(3), 3.2–5.3 mm long, pilose on the back, with an awn up to 5 mm long (sometimes more); sterile lemmas 3–5.
Habitat
Dambos, grassland on sandy soil and in open woodland
Altitude range
1000–1740 m. 1740 1000
Distribution
Zambia S Kalomo Distr., Simamba Dambo, Sichifulo Controlled Hunting Area, 3.iv.1962, B.L. Mitchell 13/84 (K).Zambia N Chishinga Ranch near Luwingu, 1400 m, 27.iv.1961, Astle 532 (K).Zimbabwe C Marondera (Marandellas), Digglefold, 1520 m, 26.i.1949, Corby 372 (K).Zambia B 45 km west of Kaoma (Mankoya), 11.iv.1966, E.A. Robinson 6906 (BM; K; SRGH).
Distribution (external)
South Africa (Transvaal)
Lophacme digitata Stapf [family GRAMINEAE]
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