Pentameris lima Steud.

Species

Angiosperms > Poales > Poaceae > Pentameris

Characteristics

Tufted perennial about 450 mm high; stoloniferous; basal sheaths white, shiny, persistent; leaves basal; stalked, crateriform glands on pedicels and glumes. Leaf blade to 300 x to 0.5 mm, tightly rolled, setaceous, scaberulous, rigid, acute to sometimes pungent; margins scabrid; sheath mouth hairy. Inflorescence contracted, 80-120 x 15 mm, with ±100 spikelets; pedicels scaberulous; axils hairy. Spikelet 6-7 mm long; glumes acuminate, straw-coloured, scaberulous; lemma 3 mm long, glabrous or scaberulous; lateral awns 2 mm long, not reaching glume apices; central awn 6 mm long, erect, geniculate; palea glabrous; anthers 3 mm long.
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Tufted, stoloniferous perennial, up to 450 mm tall, with glandular pedicels and glumes. Leaves linear, rolled, occasionally pungent; ligule a fringe of hairs. Inflorescence a contracted panicle, 80-120 mm long. Spikelets 6-7 mm long; glumes ± equal, as long as spikelet (excluding awns), 1-nerved; 2-flowered, both bisexual; lemma glabrous, lobe awns not exserted, central awn 6 mm long; anthers 3 mm long.
Life form perennial
Growth form herb
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Mature height (meter) 0.45
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Distribution

Pentameris lima world distribution map, present in South Africa

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:415331-1
WFO ID wfo-0000889277
COL ID 76NF4
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Synonyms

Pentameris lima