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Melinis subglabra Mez

Species

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Characteristics

Tufted perennial 400-1 300 mm high; rhizome short, thick and knotty. Leaf blade 30-170 x (2.3-)3.0-8.0(-10.0) mm. Inflorescence broadly ovate; pedicels glabrous or with long hairs at apex. Spikelet 3.2-5.0 x 1.5 mm, ovate, glabrous rarely densely hairy; internode between glumes short, 0.1-0.6 mm long; upper glume and lower lemma usually mucronate, rarely with awn up to 3 mm long; upper glume gibbous, 5-nerved, usually glabrous or with a tuft of hairs from the middle of the back; lower palea keels ciliate; anthers 1.2-1.8 mm long.
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Inferior glume (0.3)0.6–1(1.3) mm. long, inconspicuously 1-nerved, narrowly ovate, inserted close to the superior; superior glume 5-nerved, usually gibbous on the back, subcoriaceous to coriaceous, glabrous, rarely hairy, emarginate, usually mucronate.
Inferior floret male, its lemma 5-nerved, resembling the superior glume but less gibbous, the palea ciliate on its keels.
Culms 40–130 cm. high, erect or rarely geniculately ascending.
Leaf laminae 3–17 cm. long, (2.3)3–8(10) mm. wide.
Panicle 6–14(20) cm. long, broadly ovate.
Pedicels usually with a few long hairs.
Perennial from a knotty rootstock.
Spikelets 3.2–5 mm. long, ovate.
Life form perennial
Growth form
Growth support free-standing
Foliage retention deciduous
Sexuality hermaphrodite
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Mature height (meter) 0.4 - 1.2
Root system rhizome
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Environment

Light -
Soil humidity 10-12
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Hardiness (USDA) 9-12

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Distribution

Melinis subglabra world distribution map, present in Angola, Kenya, Namibia, Tanzania, United Republic of, South Africa, Zambia, and Zimbabwe

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:408255-1
WFO ID wfo-0000879598
COL ID 3ZFLP
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Synonyms

Melinis denudata Rhynchelytrum denudatum Rhynchelytrum merkeri Rhynchelytrum subglabrum Rhynchelytrum eylesii Melinis subglabra Melinis merkeri
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