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Stipa capensis Thunb.

Stipellule du Cap (fr), Stipe du Cap (fr), Plumet du Cap (fr)

Species

Angiosperms > Poales > Poaceae > Stipa

Characteristics

Annual 100-500(-1000) mm high. Leaf blade 50-200 x to 3 mm, rolled, hairy; ligule a fringed membrane. Inflorescence up to 15 mm long, contracted, often partially enclosed in upper leaf. Spikelet 12-16 mm long (excluding awn); glumes long acuminate, colourless, translucent, shining, much longer than spikelet; lower glume 12-18 mm long, equal to longer than upper; lemma laterally compressed to ± terete, margins strongly overlapping, hairy; awn 50-100 mm long, bent, strongly twisted basally, base conspicuously hairy, hairs ± 1 mm long, upper scabrid; palea 2-nerved, glabrous, rounded, much shorter than lemma; callus elongate, up to 2 mm long, pungent, hairy; anther 2.0-2.5 mm long, hairy at apex.
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Annual, up to 0.5 m tall. Leaves linear, often rolled; ligule a fringed membrane, hairs minute (ligule in Stipagrostis anomala a fringe of hairs). Inflorescence a contracted panicle. Spikelets 12-15 mm long (excluding awn), 1-flowered; glumes ± 15 mm long, longer than lemma (excluding awns), almost transparent; lemma 1-awned, awn 50-80 mm long, bent and twisted.
Annual to 50 cm. Leaves linear, often rolled. Spikelets 12-15 mm long, in an open panicle, glumes ± 15 mm long, awn bent and twisted, 50-80 mm long.
Life form perennial
Growth form graminoid
Growth support free-standing
Foliage retention deciduous
Sexuality hermaphrodite
Pollination -
Spread -
Mature width (meter) -
Mature height (meter) 0.38 - 0.5
Root system -
Rooting depth (meter) 0.33
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Nitrogen fixer -
Photosynthetic pathway -

Environment

Light 7-9
Soil humidity 1-6
Soil texture 1-6
Soil acidity 3-7
Soil nutriment -
Hardiness (USDA) 8-9

Usage

Uses animal food fiber medicinal vertebrate poison
Edible -
Therapeutic use Cyanogenetic (unspecified)
Human toxicity -
Animal toxicity -

Cultivation

Mode -
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Optimum temperature (C°) 15 - 25
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Productivity -

Images

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Distribution

Stipa capensis world distribution map, present in Pakistan and South Africa

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:423194-1
WFO ID wfo-0000901851
COL ID 52QTR
BDTFX ID 66384
INPN ID 125134
Wikipedia (EN) Link
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Synonyms

Stipa capensis Stipa humilis Stipa liwinowii Stipa tenacissima
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