Schizachyrium exile (Hochst.) Pilg.

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Synonyms: Andropogon exilis Hochst.
Schizachyrium inclusum Stent
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Status: Native
Description:
Loosely caespitose annual; culms up to 85(110) cm high, erect branched. Leaf sheaths much shorter than the internodes, glabrous; laminas 4–17 cm × 1–4 mm, tapering to a fine point at the apex. Racemes 2–7 cm long, ± stout, cylindrical, subsessile, usually enclosed by the broad spatheole for most of their length; peduncles shorter than the racemes; internodes and pedicels broad and canaliculate; spikelet base, internode, pedicel and inferior glume often with hairs up to 2.5 mm long. Sessile spikelet 4.7–7 mm long, 1/4 as long again as the pedicel, narrowly lanceolate, laterally compressed, very pointed at the base; inferior glume strongly convex, the margins strongly inrolled; superior lemma bifid almost to the base; awn 9–20 mm long, geniculate; anthers 0.4–0.6 mm long. Pedicelled spikelet reduced to an awned vestigial glume 0.8–2.4 mm long; awn 3.5–6 mm long.
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Habitat: Barren rocky hillsides, sometimes in damp soil, in cultivated fields, and along roadsides
Altitude range: 150 - 1450 m
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Worldwide distribution: Old World tropics
Malawi distribution: N,C,S
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Literature:

Cope, T.A. (2002). Poaceae Flora Zambesiaca 10(4) Page 85.

Jackson, G. & Wiehe, P.O. (1958). An Annotated Check List of Nyasaland Grasses The Government Printer, Zomba, Nyasaland Page 57.

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 109.

Setshogo, M.P. (2005). Preliminary checklist of the plants of Botswana. Sabonet Report no. 37. Sabonet, Pretoria and Gaborone Page 144.

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Flora of Botswana: Schizachyrium exile
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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: Schizachyrium exile.
https://www.malawiflora.com/speciesdata/species.php?species_id=108720, retrieved 6 December 2024

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