Urochloa panicoides P. Beauv.

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Shashe Wilderness Camp, Tuli

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Synonyms:	Panicum helopus Trin. Panicum oxycephalum Peter Panicum panicoides (Beauv.) Hitchc. Urochloa helopus (Trin.) Stapf Urochloa ruschii Pilger
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Description:	Annual. Culms 10–100 cm. high, often ascending from a prostrate rooting base. Leaf laminae linear to narrowly lanceolate, subamplexicaul, coarse, glabrous or pubescent. Inflorescence of 2–7 (rarely more) racemes, these 1–7 cm. long bearing single or sometimes paired spikelets on a narrowly winged rhachis, the pedicels (rarely also the rhachis) with long white hairs. Spikelets (2.5) 3.5–4.5 (5.5) mm. long, elliptic, glabrous, pubescent or setosely fringed. Inferior glume 1/4–1/3(1/2) length of spikelet, ovate, 3–5 nerved. Superior glume and inferior lemma usually with cross nerves. Superior lemma rugulose, with a mucro 0.3–1.3 mm. long.
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Worldwide distribution:	Africa, India
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Literature:	Chapano, C. & Mugarisanwa, N.H. (2003). Plants of the Matobo District National Herbarium and Botanic Garden, Zimbabwe Page 36. Clayton, W.D. (1989). Poaceae Flora Zambesiaca 10(3) Page 81. Jackson, G. & Wiehe, P.O. (1958). An Annotated Check List of Nyasaland Grasses The Government Printer, Zomba, Nyasaland Page 65. 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 111. Setshogo, M.P. (2005). Preliminary checklist of the plants of Botswana. Sabonet Report no. 37. Sabonet, Pretoria and Gaborone Page 148.

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