Eragrostis macrochlamys Pilg.

Species

Angiosperms > Poales > Poaceae > Eragrostis

Characteristics

Spikelets 4–5 × 3–4 mm, broadly oblong to broadly ovate, strongly laterally compressed, 5–7-flowered, the florets disarticulating from the apex downwards, the rhachilla fragile; glumes subequal, 1.4–2.8 mm long, reaching almost to the apex of the adjacent lemmas, sometimes exceeding them, keeled, lanceolate to narrowly ovate in profile, glabrous, with or without crateriform glands along the keel and lateral nerves, subacute to sharply acute at the apex; lemmas 1.9–2.6 mm long, strongly keeled, ovate-lanceolate in profile, membranous with distinct lateral nerves, ± appressed to the rhachilla, those in opposite rows imbricate and concealing the rhachilla, pallid, glabrous, subacute to sharply acute and sometimes mucronate at the apex; palea glabrous on the flanks, the keels slender, wingless, scaberulous to puberulous; anthers 3, 0.2–0.4 mm long.
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Panicle 1.5–9 cm long, linear to narrowly lanceolate, the spikelets subsessile and secund on the racemose primary branches or on the short secondary branchlets, the primary branches appressed or occasionally spreading, not in whorls, terminating in a fertile spikelet, glabrous in the axils, eglandular or with numerous crateriform glands.
Caespitose annual; culms up to 30 cm tall, erect, ascending or procumbent, glabrous at the nodes, eglandular; leaf sheaths eglandular; ligule a line of hairs; leaf laminas 2–20 cm × 1.5–3 mm, linear, flat or involute, glabrous, glaucous, eglandular.
Caryopsis c. 0.9 mm long, elliptic.
Life form annual
Growth form herb
Growth support free-standing
Foliage retention deciduous
Sexuality hermaphrodite
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Photosynthetic pathway c4

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Distribution

Eragrostis macrochlamys world distribution map, present in Botswana and Namibia

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:401273-1
WFO ID wfo-0000868000
COL ID 6FZRZ
BDTFX ID 77000
INPN ID 160905
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Synonyms

Eragrostis wilmaniae Eragrostis macrochlamys var. wilmaniae Eragrostis macrochlamys var. macrochlamys Eragrostis macrochlamys