Sporobolus pectinatus Hack.

Species

Angiosperms > Poales > Poaceae > Sporobolus

Characteristics

Perennial, 240-740 mm high; older plants with long, horizontally creeping rhizomes. Leaf blade 50-300 x 5-8 mm, pectinately ciliate; ligule a fringed membrane or a fringe of hairs. Inflorescence a panicle, branches whorled; spikelets very densely clustered on upper third of branches, leaving lower part bare. Spikelets 3.0-3.7 mm long, laterally compressed, awnless, glabrous, disarticulating above glumes; glumes 1-nerved; lower glume 1/2 as long as spikelet; upper glume as long as spikelet. Floret 1; lemma similar in texture to glumes, membranous, often shining, 1-3-nerved. Flowering time Nov.-Feb.
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Perennial 240-740 mm high; older plants with long, horizontally creeping rhizomes. Leaf blade 50-300 x 5-8 mm, flat, sometimes inrolled, pectinately ciliate. Inflorescence branches whorled; spikelets very densely clustered on upper 1/3 of branches, leaving lower part bare. Spikelet 3.0-3.7 mm long; glumes unequal; lower glume 1/2 as long as spikelet; upper glume as long as spikelet; lemma little shorter than upper glume; anther 1.9-2.2 mm long.
Perennial, rhizomatous (older plants with long horizontally creeping rhizomes), up to 0.74 m high. Leaf blades 50-300 mm long, 5-8 mm wide, pectinately ciliate. Spikelets 3.0-3.7 mm long. Panicle whorled; spikelets very densely clustered on upper third of branches, leaving lower part bare; lower glume half the spikelet length; upper glume as long as spikelet.
Life form perennial
Growth form herb
Growth support -
Foliage retention deciduous
Sexuality hermaphrodite
Pollination -
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Mature height (meter) 0.24 - 0.74
Root system rhizome
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Environment

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Soil texture 7-8
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Usage

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Cultivation

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Distribution

Sporobolus pectinatus world distribution map, present in South Africa

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:422873-1
WFO ID wfo-0000901388
COL ID 4ZCQ4
BDTFX ID -
INPN ID -
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Synonyms

Sporobolus pectinatus