Plant descriptions ²

Delicate, caespitose, erect or ± scrambling and decumbent annual, tinged with bright purplish-red; culms up to 40(80) cm high, much branched from below, often in fascicles; internodes delicate, linear, compressed. Leaf sheaths shorter than the internodes, glabrous; laminas 0.8–5 cm × up to 5.5 mm, keeled, obtuse at the apex. Racemes borne throughout the plant, 0.5–3 cm long, filiform, glabrous or sometimes with short hairs throughout, shortly exserted from and partially enclosed by the linear spatheole; peduncle shorter than the raceme; internodes and pedicels filiform and flattened below, clavate above. Sessile spikelet 2.3–3.5 mm long, 1/5 as long again as the pedicel, linear-ovate, dorsally compressed, rounded at the base; inferior glume slightly convex; superior lemma bifid almost to the base; awn slender, 6–13 mm long, geniculate; anthers very small, 0.5–0.6 mm long. Pedicelled spikelet reduced to an awned vestigial glume 0.3–1.2 mm long; awn 2.5–3.5 mm long, straight.

Elevation ²

1 500 - 2 000 m.

Similar species ²

Syn. Andropogon brevifolius ; Andropogon debilis ; Andropogon exsertus ; Andropogon flaccidus ; Andropogon floridus ; Andropogon integer ; Andropogon minimus ; Andropogon obtusifolius ; Andropogon parviflorus ; Andropogon tenellus ; Pollinia brevifolia ; Pollinia vaginata ; Schizachyrium minutum ; Schizachyrium fasciculatum ; Schizopogon decumbens ; Sorghum brevifolium.

Reference ²

T. A. Cope, 2002. Flora of Zambisica. Vol 10, Part 4.

Sources and Credits

1. (c) Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History, Department of Botany, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-SA), https://collections.nmnh.si.edu/services/media.php?env=botany&irn=10292306
2. (c) Romer Rabarijaona, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA)

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