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Published In: Révision des Graminées 1: 293, pl. 58. 1830. (Révis. Gramin.) Name publication detailView in BotanicusView in Biodiversity Heritage Library
 

Project Name Data (Last Modified On 6/2/2011)
Acceptance : Accepted
Project Data     (Last Modified On 6/3/2011)
Type: Type: Senegal, Herb. Gay 21 & 40 (K).
Distribution: Distribution: Pakistan (Sind & Punjab, introduced); from Senegal eastwards to the Sudan and south to South Africa, in open grassland and Savannah.
Comment/Acknowledgements: Rhodes’ Grass has been introduced into India and Pakistan where it is a valuable fodder grass. It is badly affected by frost.
Map Location: C-7 Rawalpindi dist.: Potha, Murree Hills, 4400', R.R. Stewart 23431 (K, RAW); G-5 Hyderabad dist.: Agricultural College, Tando Jam, J.J. Norris 171 (K, RAW).

 

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Perennial; culms 05 to over 2 m high, stoloniferous, erect or ascending, occasionally rooting at the lower nodes, glabrous below the inflorescence. Leaf-blades flat, rarely involute, (15-)25-50 cm long, (1.5)3-9 mm wide, tapering towards the apex. Inflorescence of (5-)7-20 digitate, ascending to spreading spikes 4-15 cm long. Spikelets 34-flowered, 2-awned; lower glume 1.2-2.5 mm long; upper glume 2-4 mm long including the awn-point, lowest lemma lanceolate in side-view, 2.5-3.5 mm long, pallid, sparsely to densely ciliate on the margins and keel, the awn 2-10 mm long; callus rounded, ciliate; 2nd lemma projecting from the side of the lowest lemma, lanceolate, 1.5-3 mm long, ciliate on the margins (but often obscurely so), the awn 1.5-5.5 mm long; 3rd lemma reduced to a scabrid, oblong or clavate awnless scale 0.75-2.5 mm long; 4th lemma, if present, reduced to a clavate awnless scale less than 1 mm long.
 
 
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