Sclerodactylon macrostachyum (Benth.) A.Camus

Species

Angiosperms > Poales > Poaceae > Sclerodactylon

Characteristics

Densely caespitose glaucous perennial, sometimes with creeping stolons; culms up to 50 cm tall, erect and straight, simple or rarely fasciculately branched from the lower nodes, the leaves all basal; leaf laminas 20–40 cm × up to 2.5 mm, subulate, cylindrical or ± compressed and elliptic in section, glabrous, pungent.
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Spikelets 7–15 mm long, 7–20-flowered, lanceolate or oblong to elliptic or ovate-elliptic; glumes obliquely lanceolate in profile, acute or subacute, the inferior 2–3 mm long, the superior 3–4 mm long; lemmas 4.5–5 mm long, obliquely ovate in profile, the lateral nerves obsolete below but prominent above.
Racemes 2–3, 5–10 cm long, rigid and straight.
Life form perennial
Growth form
Growth support free-standing
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Sexuality hermaphrodite
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Mature height (meter) 0.5
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Photosynthetic pathway c4

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Hardiness (USDA) 9-12

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Images

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Distribution

Sclerodactylon macrostachyum world distribution map, present in Andorra, Comoros, Madagascar, Mozambique, Seychelles, and Tanzania, United Republic of

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:421112-1
WFO ID wfo-0000898445
COL ID 4VPKY
BDTFX ID -
INPN ID 790734
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Synonyms

Eleusine macrostachya Sclerodactylon juncifolium Sclerodactylon macrostachyum Eleusine juncea