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Ficinia cinnamomea C.B.Clarke

Species

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Characteristics

Perennial herb, tufted, 0.1-0.4 m high. Leaves with bases breaking up into soft brown fibres; blades flat or inrolled, ± 0.5 mm wide. Culm terete, 0.5-1.0 mm in diam. Inflorescence a head of up to 10(-more) spikelets. Subtending bracts 2, lower suberect, base slightly dilated, dark reddish black, leaf-like blade very long (30-130 mm. Spikelets broadly ovate, 6 x 4-5 mm long. Glumes lanceolate, 3.5-4.0 mm long, keel excurrent into awn up to 0.5 mm long. Flowering time Nov.-Feb. Nutlet obovate, including gynophore 1.8-2.0 mm long, 3-angled, dark reddish brown or greyish black, surface minutely reticulate. Gynophore relatively large, margins lobed.
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Glabrous; rhizome very short; stems 4-16 in. long, tufted, very slender, each with 1 head of 5-10 spikelets; uppermost sheath leafless, lower pale brown with long setaceous leaves; bracts 2, lower 1-3 in. long, suberect; spikelets 1/4 in. long, pale brown; glumes ovate; keel excurrent; anthers linear-oblong; crest small, lanceolate; nut 2/5 the length of the glume, obovoid, trigonous, smooth, leaden-black minutely-white reticulated by the outermost layer of withered cells; style shorter than the nut, branches 3 linear, long; gynophore rather prominent, obpyramidal, margin entire.
Life form perennial
Growth form herb
Growth support free-standing
Foliage retention deciduous
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Distribution

Ficinia cinnamomea world distribution map, present in Namibia and South Africa

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:307530-1
WFO ID wfo-0000417919
COL ID 6HWKT
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Synonyms

Ficinia cinnamomea
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