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Anadelphia trispiculata Stapf

Species

Angiosperms > Poales > Poaceae > Anadelphia

Characteristics

Sessile spikelet 8–10 mm long (including the callus); callus 3–3.5 mm long, fulvously barbate; inferior glume narrowly oblong, coriaceous, 7-nerved, rounded on the back without a median groove, narrowly truncate at the apex; superior glume similar to the inferior but 3-nerved, usually awnless; superior lemma shortly bilobed; awn 3.5–7 cm long, the column yellowish to brown, scaberulous, twice as long as the limb.
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Leaf sheaths glabrous, produced into 2 inconspicuous rounded auricles; ligule adnate to the auricles; leaf laminas up to 25 cm × 5 mm, glabrous except towards the base.
False panicle 30–40 cm long, linear; spatheoles 2–3 cm long, linear-lanceolate; peduncles filiform, glabrous, without an appendage.
Raceme exserted from the side of the spatheole, bearing a solitary sessile spikelet and two well developed pedicelled spikelets.
Pedicelled spikelet c. 4 mm long, linear, male, the callus c. 1.5 mm long, oblong, truncate.
Pedicels filiform, 3/4 the length of the sessile spikelet, fulvously ciliate.
Caespitose perennial; culms up to 120 cm high, stout, unbranched.
Panicle stiffly linear, the branches appressed to the main axis
Stout caespitose perennial about 120 cm. high
Life form perennial
Growth form herb
Growth support free-standing
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Sexuality hermaphrodite
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Mature height (meter) 1.2
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Swampy places.
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Hardiness (USDA) 9-12

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Distribution

Anadelphia trispiculata world distribution map, present in Congo, Gabon, Ghana, Guinea, Mozambique, Mauritania, Sierra Leone, and Togo

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:387364-1
WFO ID wfo-0000845952
COL ID DCKJ
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Synonyms

Hypogynium trispiculatum Pobeguinea gabonensis Pobeguinea trispiculata Anadelphia trispiculata
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