Melinis macrochaeta Stapf & C.E. Hubb.

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Tufted annual to short-lived perennial. Culms (35)50–100(150) cm. high, geniculately ascending and often rooting at the lower nodes. Leaf laminae (3)5–15(20) cm. long, (3)5–10(13) mm. wide, flat, thin, softly pilose. Panicle 10–25 cm. long, narrowly ovate. Pedicels glabrous, rarely with a few long hairs towards the apex, scabrous. Spikelets 1.5–2 mm. long, narrowly oblong. Inferior glume an obscure rim up to 0.1 mm. long, inserted close to the superior; superior glume 7-nerved, delicately membranous, bilobed, the lobes irregularly dentate, awnless or mucronate. Inferior floret barren without a palea, its lemma 3–5-nerved, acutely bilobed, equalling the superior glume but narrower and with an awn (5)8–20 mm. long.
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Habitat: In grassland or Brachystegia woodland, often in disturbed places, or near streams
Altitude range: 800 - 1800 m
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Worldwide distribution: Tropical Africa
Malawi distribution: S
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Literature:

Burrows, J.E. & Willis, C.K. (eds) (2005). Plants of the Nyika Plateau Southern African Botanical Diversity Network Report No. 31 SABONET, Pretoria Page 353.

Chapano, C. & Mugarisanwa, N.H. (2003). Plants of the Matobo District National Herbarium and Botanic Garden, Zimbabwe Page 25.

Clayton, W.D. (1989). Poaceae Flora Zambesiaca 10(3) Pages 124 - 126. (Includes a picture).

Jackson, G. & Wiehe, P.O. (1958). An Annotated Check List of Nyasaland Grasses The Government Printer, Zomba, Nyasaland Page 48.

Mapaura, A. & Timberlake, J. (eds) (2004). A checklist of Zimbabwean vascular plants Southern African Botanical Diversity Network Report No. 33 Sabonet, Pretoria and Harare Page 106.

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Copyright: Mark Hyde, Bart Wursten, Petra Ballings and Meg Coates Palgrave, 2014-24

Hyde, M.A., Wursten, B.T., Ballings, P. & Coates Palgrave, M. (2024). Flora of Malawi: Species information: Melinis macrochaeta.
https://www.malawiflora.com/speciesdata/species.php?species_id=107390, retrieved 28 March 2024

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