Pentameris trifida (Galley) Galley & H.P.Linder

Species

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Characteristics

Perennial 80-200 mm high; basal sheaths white shiny, persistent; leaves basal; linear glands on inflorescence branches. Leaf blade 20-50 x 0.5-1.0 mm, rolled; margins scaberulous; sheath red-purple, mouth glabrous. Inflorescence open 50-75 x 40-60 mm, with 15-35 spikelets; trichotomously branched; axils glabrous. Spikelet 4.5-5.5 mm long, floret 1; glumes acute, pale yellow, base purplish, apex green; lemma 2.4-2.8 mm long, hairy, hairs scattered on back between nerves; lateral awns 6-8 mm long; central awn 18-24 mm long, geniculate, column twisted; palea glabrous; anthers 0.9-1.2 mm long.
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Perennial to 20 cm, with 1 to several culms, with linear glands. Leaves linear, reduced, puberulous, sheaths purple. Spikelets 4.5-5.5 mm long, 15-35 in a lax, trichotomously branched panicle, yellowish, awned.
Life form perennial
Growth form herb
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Sexuality hermaphrodite
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Mature height (meter) 0.08 - 0.2
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Soil texture 5-6
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Distribution

Pentameris trifida world distribution map, present in South Africa

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:77111670-1
WFO ID wfo-0000920966
COL ID 76NGR
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Synonyms

Pentaschistis trifida Pentameris trifida