Eragrostis leptotricha Cope

Species

Angiosperms > Poales > Poaceae > Eragrostis

Characteristics

Spikelets 1.4–2 × 0.8–1 mm, ovate, lightly laterally compressed, 3–4-flowered, the florets disarticulating from the apex downwards, the rhachilla fragile; glumes subequal, persistent, 0.8–1.2 mm long, reaching to or beyond the middle of the adjacent lemmas, scarcely keeled, lanceolate-oblong, scaberulous on the midnerve, obtuse to subacute at the apex; lemmas 0.9–1.2 mm long, dorsally rounded or lightly keeled, broadly elliptic, thinly membranous with obscure lateral nerves, widely divergent from the rhachilla, this visible between them, greyish-green, thinly pilose with slender hairs on the flanks between the margins and the lateral nerves, subacute to rounded at the apex; palea glabrous on the flanks, the keels slender, wingless, glabrous and smooth below, scaberulous above; anthers 3, 0.6–0.8 mm long.
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Caespitose short-lived perennial without rhizomes or stolons; culms up to 60 cm tall, erect, wiry, unbranched, glabrous at the nodes (but these mostly not exposed), eglandular; basal leaf sheaths shortly pilose below, firmly chartaceous, subterete to lightly compressed, sometimes with scattered glandular pits, persistent; ligule a line of hairs; leaf laminas 6–30 cm × 1–2.5 mm, narrowly linear, involute, glabrous, eglandular.
Panicle 16–25 cm long, narrowly oblong to narrowly elliptic, effuse with capillary branchlets and pedicels, the spikelets evenly distributed on pedicels 1–2.5 mm long, the primary branches not in whorls (but sometimes loosely clustered), terminating in a fertile spikelet, pilose in the axils, eglandular.
Caryopsis not yet seen.
Life form perennial
Growth form herb
Growth support free-standing
Foliage retention deciduous
Sexuality hermaphrodite
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Mature height (meter) 0.6
Root system rhizome
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Usage

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Cultivation

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Distribution

Eragrostis leptotricha world distribution map, present in Botswana and Zimbabwe

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:1000361-1
WFO ID wfo-0000867956
COL ID 6FZQY
BDTFX ID -
INPN ID -
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Synonyms

Eragrostis leptotricha