Trisetopsis hirtula (Steud.) Röser & A.Wölk

Species

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Characteristics

Loosely tufted slender, weak perennial, up to 1 m high. Leaf blade up to 250 x 2 mm, filiform; ligule an unfringed membrane. Inflorescence a panicle up to 200 mm long, contracted, almost spike-like. Spikelets 8-11 mm long (excluding awns), laterally compressed; rachilla internode 1.5-2.0 mm long, with hairs up to 2 mm long; glumes unequal, narrowly lanceolate, acute, ± keeled; lower glume glabrous 1-nerved, minutely scaberulous along nerve; upper glume up to 2/3 as long as spikelet, 3-nerved. Florets 2-6; lemma lanceolate, rounded on back, 2-lobed, lobes awned, scabrid below central awn insertion; central awn from between lobes, basal part of awn twisted; anther 0.6-1.6 mm long. Flowering time Nov.-Mar.
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Loosely tufted, slender, weak perennial to 1 000 mm high. Leaf blade to 250 x to 2 mm, filiform. Inflorescence to 200 mm long, contracted, almost spike-like. Spikelet 8-11 mm long (excluding awns), usually closely flowered; glumes unequal, narrowly lanceolate, acute; lower glume 1-nerved, glabrous, minutely scaberulous along the nerve; upper glume to 2/3 as long as spikelet, 3-nerved; rachilla internode 1.5-2.0 mm long, with hairs to 2 mm long; lemma lanceolate, scabrid below the central awn insertion; anther 0.6-1.6 mm long.
Slender, weak perennial, loosely tufted, up to 1 m high. Leaf blades up to 250 mm long, filiform, up to 2 mm wide. Spikelets 8-11 mm long. Panicle lax, almost spike-like, up to 200 mm long; glumes unequal, upper up to two-thirds the spikelet length; rhachilla inter-nodes 1.5-2.0 mm long, with hairs to 2 mm long; lemma scabrid below insertion of awn.
Perennial to 1 m. Leaves linear. Spikelets 8-11 mm long, in a narrow panicle to 20 cm long, upper glume half to two-thirds as long as spikelet, lemmas scabrid.
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Soil humidity 7-9
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Distribution

Trisetopsis hirtula world distribution map, present in Lesotho and South Africa

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:77129290-1
WFO ID wfo-0001336094
COL ID 592BZ
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Synonyms

Trisetum hirtulum Arrhenatherum hirtulum Avena hirta Trisetopsis hirtula