young shoot icon Home All plants About

Ehrharta delicatula Stapf

Species

Angiosperms > Poales > Poaceae > Ehrharta

Characteristics

Leafy annual 45-250 mm high. Leaf blade 20-160 x 1-11 mm, expanded, thin. Spikelet 2-3 mm long; glumes 1/2-3/4 as long as spikelet; sterile lemmas similar, sides not long-hairy, with 2-3 transverse ribs; 1st sterile lemma more than 2/3 as long as 2nd sterile lemma; 2nd sterile lemma with a pair of ear-like appendages at hinge-like joint at base; anther 0.7-1.1 mm long.
More
Tufted annual, up to 450 mm tall. Leaf blades flat, margins undulate; ligule an unfringed membrane. Inflorescence a delicate, verticillate panicle. Spikelets 2-3 mm long, small, green, sometimes tinged with purple, glumes shorter than spikelet, sterile lemmas corrugate, glabrous, blunt, the second with a pair of granular basal appendages.
Annual to 45 cm. Leaf blades flat, with wavy margins. Spikelets in an open panicle, small, green or green and purple, glumes shorter than spikelet, sterile lemmas corrugate, glabrous, blunt, the second with a pair of basal granular appendages.
Life form annual
Growth form
Growth support free-standing
Foliage retention -
Sexuality hermaphrodite
Pollination -
Spread -
Mature width (meter) -
Mature height (meter) 0.25 - 0.35
Root system -
Rooting depth (meter) -
Root diameter (meter) -
Flower color -
Blooming months -
Fruit color -
Fruiting months -
Nitrogen fixer -
Photosynthetic pathway -

Environment

Light -
Soil humidity -
Soil texture 7-8
Soil acidity -
Soil nutriment -
Hardiness (USDA) -

Usage

Uses -
Edible -
Therapeutic use -
Human toxicity -
Animal toxicity -

Cultivation

Mode -
Germination duration (days) -
Germination temperacture (C°) -
Germination luminosity -
Germination treatment -
Minimum temperature (C°) -
Optimum temperature (C°) -
Size -
Vigor -
Productivity -

Distribution

Ehrharta delicatula world distribution map, present in Namibia and South Africa

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:399837-1
WFO ID wfo-0000865549
COL ID 38V2Y
BDTFX ID -
INPN ID -
Wikipedia (EN)
Wikipedia (FR)

Synonyms

Ehrharta delicatula Ehrharta diffusa
WorldFloraDB 2024