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Panicum trichonode Launert & Renvoize [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 3, (1989) Author: W. D. Clayton
Names
Panicum trichonode Launert & Renvoize [family GRAMINEAE], in Merxm., Prodr. Fl. SW. Afr. 160: 226 (1970). — Launert in Merxm. loc. cit.: 143. Type: Zambia, Robinson 6124 (K, holotype).
Information
Caespitose or shortly rhizomatous, glabrous or pilose perennial with erect or ascending culms 35–120 cm. high from a pubescent base; nodes conspicuously bearded or pubescent with white hairs. Leaf laminae 20–30 × 3–5 mm., linear, flat, sharply acute. Panicle 10–22 cm. long, elliptic or oblong, moderately branched. Spikelets 2.5–3 mm. long, ovate-elliptic, glabrous, acute; inferior glume 1/8–1/4 the length of the spikelet, broadly-ovate, membranous, 0–1-nerved; superior glume herbaceous, 7–9-nerved; inferior lemma similar to the superior glume, male, its palea well developed; superior lemma and palea pallid, shiny.
Habitat
Damp grassland on clay soils
Altitude range
1000–1900 m.
1900
1000
Distribution
Botswana N Okovango River, 14.ii.1979, Smith 2640 (K; SRGH).Zambia B Mongu, 20.i.1966, Robinson 6816 (K).Zimbabwe N Guruve, 3.i.1979, Nyariri 614 (K; SRGH).Zambia W 80 km. W. of Chingola, 18.xii.1963, Robinson 6124 (K).Zambia S Namwala, 10.xii.1962, van Rensburg 1051 (K).Zimbabwe W Hwange, 6.iii.1985, Martin 110 (K; SRGH).Zimbabwe C Gweru, 30.xii.1965, Simon 593 (K; SRGH).Zimbabwe S Makoholi, 2.iii.1984, Sibanda 4 (K; SRGH).
Distribution (external)
Namibia
Date Updated: 26 July 2007
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
Panicum trichonode Launert & Renvoize [family GRAMINEAE], in Merxm., Prodr. Fl. SW. Afr. 160: 226 (1970). — Launert in Merxm. loc. cit.: 143. Type: Zambia, Robinson 6124 (K, holotype).
Information
Caespitose or shortly rhizomatous, glabrous or pilose perennial with erect or ascending culms 35–120 cm. high from a pubescent base; nodes conspicuously bearded or pubescent with white hairs. Leaf laminae 20–30 × 3–5 mm., linear, flat, sharply acute. Panicle 10–22 cm. long, elliptic or oblong, moderately branched. Spikelets 2.5–3 mm. long, ovate-elliptic, glabrous, acute; inferior glume 1/8–1/4 the length of the spikelet, broadly-ovate, membranous, 0–1-nerved; superior glume herbaceous, 7–9-nerved; inferior lemma similar to the superior glume, male, its palea well developed; superior lemma and palea pallid, shiny.
Habitat
Damp grassland on clay soils
Altitude range
1000–1900 m.
1900
1000
Distribution
Botswana N Okovango River, 14.ii.1979, Smith 2640 (K; SRGH).Zambia B Mongu, 20.i.1966, Robinson 6816 (K).Zimbabwe N Guruve, 3.i.1979, Nyariri 614 (K; SRGH).Zambia W 80 km. W. of Chingola, 18.xii.1963, Robinson 6124 (K).Zambia S Namwala, 10.xii.1962, van Rensburg 1051 (K).Zimbabwe W Hwange, 6.iii.1985, Martin 110 (K; SRGH).Zimbabwe C Gweru, 30.xii.1965, Simon 593 (K; SRGH).Zimbabwe S Makoholi, 2.iii.1984, Sibanda 4 (K; SRGH).
Distribution (external)
Namibia
Date Updated: 26 July 2007
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
Panicum trichonode Launert & Renvoize [family GRAMINEAE], in Merxm., Prodr. Fl. SW. Afr. 160: 226 (1970). — Launert in Merxm. loc. cit.: 143. Type: Zambia, Robinson 6124 (K, holotype).
Information
Caespitose or shortly rhizomatous, glabrous or pilose perennial with erect or ascending culms 35–120 cm. high from a pubescent base; nodes conspicuously bearded or pubescent with white hairs. Leaf laminae 20–30 × 3–5 mm., linear, flat, sharply acute. Panicle 10–22 cm. long, elliptic or oblong, moderately branched. Spikelets 2.5–3 mm. long, ovate-elliptic, glabrous, acute; inferior glume 1/8–1/4 the length of the spikelet, broadly-ovate, membranous, 0–1-nerved; superior glume herbaceous, 7–9-nerved; inferior lemma similar to the superior glume, male, its palea well developed; superior lemma and palea pallid, shiny.
Habitat
Damp grassland on clay soils
Altitude range
1000–1900 m.
1900
1000
Distribution
Botswana N Okovango River, 14.ii.1979, Smith 2640 (K; SRGH).Zambia B Mongu, 20.i.1966, Robinson 6816 (K).Zimbabwe N Guruve, 3.i.1979, Nyariri 614 (K; SRGH).Zambia W 80 km. W. of Chingola, 18.xii.1963, Robinson 6124 (K).Zambia S Namwala, 10.xii.1962, van Rensburg 1051 (K).Zimbabwe W Hwange, 6.iii.1985, Martin 110 (K; SRGH).Zimbabwe C Gweru, 30.xii.1965, Simon 593 (K; SRGH).Zimbabwe S Makoholi, 2.iii.1984, Sibanda 4 (K; SRGH).
Distribution (external)
Namibia
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