Eragrostis nindensis
| Family: | Poaceae |
| Full name: | Eragrostis nindensis Ficalho & Hiern |
| Location: | Kyffhäuser (2416AD + 2416CB) |
| ID status: | Fairly certain |
| Afrikaans common name(s): | Agtdaepluimgras, Hamelgras, Rooigras |
| English common name(s): | Wether love grass, Perennial lovegrass |
| Synonym(s): | Eragrostis acutissima Jedwabn. Eragrostis andongensis Rendle fide Fl. Trop. E. Africa Eragrostis buchananii K.Schum. Eragrostis denudata Hack. Eragrostis guingensis Rendle Eragrostis vanderystii De Wild. fide Fl. Trop. E. Africa |
| Status: | Native |
| Description: | Resurrection plant. Caespitose perennial with short oblique rhizome; culms up to 80 cm tall, erect, unbranched, glabrous at the nodes, eglandular; basal leaf sheaths glabrous or with straight silky hairs, chartaceous, terete, eglandular, persistent or decaying into coarse fibres; ligule a line of hairs; leaf laminas 5–30 cm x 2–3 mm, linear, involute and often filiform, rarely flat, eglandular. Panicle 5–20 cm long, ovate with stiffly spreading primary branches, or narrowly lanceolate and densely contracted, or linear and interrupted with the spikelets subsessile in clusters on stubby side branches, the primary branches not in whorls, terminating in a fertile spikelet, glabrous in the axils, eglandular. Spikelets 4–20 x 2.5–4 mm, ovate to narrowly oblong, strongly laterally compressed, 8–30-flowered, the florets disarticulating from the apex downwards, the rhachilla fragile; glumes subequal, 1.2–2 mm long, reaching to just beyond the middle of the adjacent lemmas, keeled, ovate in profile, glabrous, acute at the apex; lemmas 2–3.5 mm long, keeled, ovate in profile, coriaceous with obscure lateral nerves, somewhat diverging from the rhachilla, those in opposite rows scarcely overlapping, the rhachilla just visible between them, dark yellowish-green to leaden, glabrous to scabrid on the keel, glabrous to scaberulous on the flanks, acute to acuminate at the apex; palea glabrous on the flanks, the keels slender, narrowly winged, the wing margin shortly ciliolate; anthers 3, 1–1.5 mm long.Caryopsis 1–1.5 mm long, elliptic. (from JSTOR Global Plants website / Flora Zambesiaca) Tufted perennial, arising from a short oblique rhizome; culms 20–80 cm high, erect. Leaf-blades involute, often filiform, rarely flat, 5–30 cm long, 2–3 mm wide. Panicle 5–20 cm long, ovate with stiffly spreading primary branches, or narrowly lanceolate and densely contracted, or linear and interrupted with the spikelets subsessile in clusters on stubby side-branches. Spikelets 8–30-flowered, ovate to narrowly oblong, 4–20 mm long, 2.5–4 mm wide, dark yellowish green, breaking up from the apex, the rhachilla fragile; glumes ovate, subequal, 1.2–2 mm long; lemmas broadly ovate, 2–3 mm long, coriaceous, acute to acuminate; palea oblong-elliptic, the keels winged and scaberulous; anthers 3, 1–1.5 mm long. Caryopsis ellipsoid, 1–1.5 mm long. (from JSTOR Global Plants website / Flora of Tropical East Africa) |
| Link(s) |
African Plant Database
JSTOR Plant Science Kew Herbarium Catalogue BGBM Berlin-Dahlem - Virtual Herbarium Züricher Herbarien iNaturalist (Namibia / Alex Dreyer) iNaturalist (Namibia) iNaturalist (southern Africa) Flora of Zimbabwe Fleurs de notre Terre - Galerie Namibie Tree Atlas of Namibia |
| Photographer: | AA Dreyer |
| Date of photograph: | 25 Feb 2011 |
| Camera make: | Canon |
| Camera model: | PowerShot SX210 IS |
| Lens aperture: | f/5.0 |
| Shutter speed: | 1/125 s |
| ISO speed: | 80 |
| Content last updated: | 18 Apr 2024 |
