Sporobolus tenellus Kunth

Species

Angiosperms > Poales > Poaceae > Sporobolus

Characteristics

Mat-forming perennial, 60-280 mm high; rhizome long and profusely branched; leaves mostly basal; culms usually 1-noded. Leaf blade 5-35 x 1-3 mm wide, rounded at apex; ligule a fringed membrane or a fringe of hairs. Inflorescence a panicle, dichotomously branched; branches not whorled; spikelets solitary at branch apex. Spikelets 1.5-1.8 mm long, laterally compressed, awnless, glabrous, disarticulating above glumes; glumes 1-nerved. Floret 1; lemma similar in texture to glumes, membranous, often shining, 1-3-nerved. Flowering time Nov.-Apr.
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Mat-forming perennial 60-280 mm high; rhizome long, profusely branched; leaves mostly basal; culms usually one-noded. Leaf blade 5-35 x 1-3 mm, broadly obtuse, margins not white cartilaginous, apex short, rounded. Inflorescence not obviously dichotomously branched; axils without long hairs; spikelets solitary at branch apices. Spikelet 1.5-1.8(2.2) mm long; glumes unequal, obtuse, ovate-oblong; lower glume 1/2 as long as spikelet; upper glume 2/3 as long as spikelet; lemma broadly oblong, apex subobtuse; anther 1.3-1.7 mm long.
Perennial; up to 0.3 m high; mat-forming; rhizome long and profusely branched. Leaf blades 5-35 x 1-3 mm; broadly obtuse; apex rounded; leaves mostly basal; cauline ones much shorter; old leaf sheaths not splitting into fibres. Flowers: panicle dichotomously branched with spikelets solitary at branch apices; spikelets 1.5-1.8 mm long; lower glume 1/2 as long as spikelet; upper glume 2/3 as long as spikelet; lemma apex subobtuse.
Life form perennial
Growth form herb
Growth support free-standing
Foliage retention deciduous
Sexuality hermaphrodite
Pollination -
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Mature height (meter) 0.06 - 0.28
Root system rhizome
Rooting depth (meter) 0.5
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Environment

Light -
Soil humidity 3-6
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Usage

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Cultivation

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Distribution

Sporobolus tenellus world distribution map, present in South Africa

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:422973-1
WFO ID wfo-0000901520
COL ID 4ZCTK
BDTFX ID -
INPN ID -
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Synonyms

Aira brachyphylla Ehrharta tenella Vilfa brevifolia Sporobolus brevifolius Sporobolus tenellus