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Alloeochaete geniculata Kabuye

Species

Angiosperms > Poales > Poaceae > Alloeochaete

Characteristics

Spikelets up to 15 mm long, lanceolate, straw-coloured tinged with purple; glumes subequal, 6.5–8.5 mm long, ovate-lanceolate, glabrous; lowermost floret male or with well developed ovary, the lemma 7.5–8.5 mm long including the aristate lobes, with a geniculate central awn up to 10 mm long; fertile lemmas c. 6 mm long including the shortly aristate lobes; central awn c. 8 mm long.
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Caespitose perennial up to 65 cm tall; culms slender; outer leaf sheaths striate, breaking up into a 5 cm deep cushion of fibres, the inner sheaths lanate; leaf lamina usually convolute, up to 16.5 cm × 3.5 mm (when expanded), attenuate, sparsely pilose above, glabrous below.
Panicle lax, up to 25 cm long, lanceolate, the branches spreading or ascending, glabrous, the terminal pedicels up to 19 mm long.
Life form perennial
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Growth support free-standing
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Sexuality hermaphrodite
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Mature height (meter) 0.65
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Usage

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Cultivation

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Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:386981-1
WFO ID wfo-0000845347
COL ID BWHN
BDTFX ID -
INPN ID -
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Synonyms

Alloeochaete geniculata
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