Panicum glandulopaniculatum Renvoize

Species

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Characteristics

Trailing or rambling annual to 1000 mm high, often rooting at nodes. Leaf blade to 100 x 10-25 mm, thick, slightly leathery, flat with cordate bases, cross-venation not conspicuous; ligule a fimbriate membrane. Inflorescence branches with flat glandular patches. Spikelet (1.5)2.0-2.5(-3.0) mm long, asymmetrical, ovate, some spikelets with long woolly hairs, others shortly hairy; glumes as long as spikelet, hairy; lower glume separated from upper glume by short internode; lower glume 3-nerved; upper glume 5-nerved; lower floret male, lemma 5-nerved, palea well developed; upper lemma shiny, smooth except for scattered papillae occurring sometimes at base and/or apex; palea scaberulous; anthers 0.7-0.9 mm long.
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Spikelets 1.5–2 mm. long, asymmetrically ovate, sparsely to densely pilose; inferior glume as long as the spikelet, 3-nerved, separated from the superior glume by a short internode; superior glume 5-nerved; inferior lemma 5-nerved, its palea well developed, male; superior lemma and palea pallid, scaberulous.
Leaf laminae 2.5–8.5 cm. long and 10–20 mm. wide, lanceolate or narrowly ovate, amplexicaul, acute or acuminate.
Panicle 6–9(14) cm. long, ovate, moderately branched, the branches stiff and bearing glandular patches.
Annual with erect or decumbent branching culms 30–100 cm. long, often rooting at the lower nodes.
Life form annual
Growth form herb
Growth support free-standing
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Sexuality hermaphrodite
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Mature height (meter) 1.0
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Environment

Light -
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Soil texture 5-6
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Hardiness (USDA) 9-12

Usage

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Cultivation

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Distribution

Panicum glandulopaniculatum world distribution map, present in Mozambique, South Africa, Zambia, and Zimbabwe

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:937892-1
WFO ID wfo-0000884319
COL ID 4CDTK
BDTFX ID -
INPN ID -
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Synonyms

Panicum glandulopaniculatum