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Project Name Data (Last Modified On 6/2/2011)
Acceptance : Accepted
Project Data     (Last Modified On 6/3/2011)
Flower/Fruit: Fl. & Fr. Per.: April-May and again from September through to December or January.
Type: Type: Teneriffe, Masson (K).
Distribution: Distribution: Pakistan (Sind, Baluchistan, Punjab & N.W.F.P.); tropical East Africa northwards to the Mediterranean: thence westwards to the Canary and Cape Verde Islands, and eastwards to India.
Comment/Acknowledgements: This is a species that grows in the most inhospitable places but with no known value as a fodder grass. No doubt some desert grazing animals will eat it.
Illustration: Tricholaena teneriffae Parl. (Illustration)
Map Location: B-7 Mardan dist.: Malakand, R.R. Stewart, E. Nasir & M.A. Siddiqi 199 (K); C-7 Attock dist.: Ziarat Mtn., near Hasan Abdal, 1500-3000', J.R. Drummond 15073 (K); Hasan Abdal, 2200', R.R. Stewart 13876 (KUH, RAW); Thatti, R.R. Stewart & E. Nasir 28516 (RAW); E-4 Kalat dist.: Bolan Pass, N of Sibi, J.J. Norris 105 (RAW); Sibi dist.: about 50 miles from Quetta on way to Sibi, S.A. Faruqi & M. Qaiser 2258 (KUH); F-4 Dadu dist.: Laid Shah Sadda near Sehwan, S.M.H. Jafri 2726 (K, KUH); 10-15 Km S of Sehwan, J. Lamond 864 (K); G-4 Karachi dist.: Mangopir, Mohd. Salim 22 (RAW).

 

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Perennial, forming tussocks from a woody rootstock; culms 10-60 cm high, ascending, wiry with narrow leaves or herbaceous and leafy. Leaf-blades flat or involute, 2-15 cm long, 1-5 mm wide. Panicle usually narrowly oblong, 3-15 cm long, fairly dense. Spikelets 2.5-35 mm long; lower glume a minute truncate scale (rarely up to 0.5 mm ); upper glume ovate, tuberculate pilose with white hairs extending 0.54 mm beyond the tip, but often glabrous in the upper quarter, acute and usually mucronate; lower lemma resembling the upper glume.
 
 
 
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