WorldFloraDB - Rhytachne subgibbosa

Characteristics

Pedicelled spikelet represented by a curved pedicel shorter than the sessile spikelet, surmounted by a vestigial glume up to 1 mm long (in the New World), sometimes the spikelet up to 2.5 mm long, well developed and containing a floret (also in the New World), rarely the spikelet up to 6.5 mm long, fully developed, bisexual, awnless (in the Flora Zambesiaca area).

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Sessile spikelet 5–9 mm long, narrowly ovate; inferior glume variously rugose or muricate (in the New World), rarely almost smooth (in the Flora Zambesiaca area), acute at the apex, awnless; superior glume awnless.

Racemes 16–30 cm long, the internodes exceeding the sessile spikelets, those towards the base of the raceme (5)9–18(23) mm long, those in the middle part 7–11 mm long, glabrous.

Leaf laminas 15–30 cm long, setaceous, involute.

Caespitose perennial; culms up to 120 cm high.

Life form	perennial
Growth form	herb
Growth support	free-standing
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Sexuality	hermaphrodite
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Mature height (meter)	1.2
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Cultivation

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Distribution

Identifiers

LSID	urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:419452-1
WFO ID	wfo-0000895882
COL ID	4SWF4
BDTFX ID	-
INPN ID	-
Wikipedia (EN)
Wikipedia (FR)

Synonyms

Mnesithea subgibbosa Rottboellia loricata subsp. glaberrima Rottboellia loricata subsp. subgibbosa Rhytachne subgibbosa

WorldFloraDB 2024

Rhytachne subgibbosa (c.Winkl. ex Hack.) Clayton

Species