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Stipagrostis brevifolia (Nees) De Winter

Species

Angiosperms > Poales > Poaceae > Stipagrostis

Characteristics

Robust shrub or dwarf shrub to 1000 mm high; rhizomes branched, woody; leaves mainly cauline; culm much branched; nodes densely covered with woolly hairs; vegetative parts with raised round glands. Leaf blade usually very short, 5-80(-120) x 1-3 mm, rolled or expanded. Inflorescence narrow, sometimes interrupted, branches adpressed to main axis. Spikelet 12-15 mm long; glumes long-acuminate, glabrous; lemma articulation between apex of lemma and base of column; only central awn plumose, lower 1/4 scabrid, apex not plumose; column distinct, scabrid; callus 2.0-2.5 mm long, apex naked, pungent; anther 4.8-6.6 mm long.
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Spiny dwarf shrub, up to 1 m tall, rhizomatous, with raised round glands on culms, sheaths and leaves; culm nodes and sheath mouth woolly. Leaves mainly cauline, pungent when reduced; ligule a fringe of hairs. Inflorescence a narrow panicle, branches adpressed to main axis. Spikelets 12-15 mm long (excluding awns), 1-flowered; glumes unequal, long acuminate; lemma 3-awned, only central awn plumose, with articulation between apex of lemma and base of column.
A grass.
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Growth form shrub
Growth support free-standing
Foliage retention deciduous
Sexuality hermaphrodite
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Mature height (meter) 1.0
Root system rhizome
Rooting depth (meter) 1.1
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Environment

It is a subtropical plant.
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Soil texture 5-8
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Usage

Uses animal food gene source
Edible seeds
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Distribution

Stipagrostis brevifolia world distribution map, present in Namibia and South Africa

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:423885-1
WFO ID wfo-0000903060
COL ID 52RKM
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Synonyms

Arthratherum brevifolium Stipagrostis brevifolia Aristida brevifolia
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