Melinis repens grandiflora
| Family: | Poaceae |
| Full name: | Melinis repens (Willd.) Zizka subsp. grandiflora (Hochst.) Zizka |
| Location: | Kyffhäuser (2416AD + 2416CB) |
| ID status: | ID not 100% certain |
| Afrikaans common name(s): | Eenjarige fluweelgras, Eenjarige ferweelgras |
| English common name(s): | Red top |
| Synonym(s): | Melinis otaviensis Mez Melinis ejubata Mez Melinis bertlingii Mez Melinis pulchra Mez Melinis mutica Mez Melinis seineri Mez Melinis affinis Mez Melinis rangei Mez Panicum setinsigne Mez Rhynchelytrum costatum Stapf & C.E.Hubb. Rhynchelytrum grandiflorum Hochst. Rhynchelytrum suberostratum Stapf & C.E.Hubb. Rhynchelytrum brevipilum (Hack.) Chiov. Tricholaena brevipila Hack. Monachyron grandiflorum (Hochst.) Martelli fide Zizka in Bibliotheca Botanica 138: 38 (1988). Tricholaena grandiflora Hochst. ex A.Rich. Tricholaena rosea var. setosa Peters Panicum insigne Steud. Tricholaena monachyron Oliv. fide Zizka in Bibliotheca Botanica 138: 60 (1988). Tricholaena uniglumis T.Durand & Schinz fide Zizka in Bibliotheca Botanica 138: 60 (1988). Monachyron villosum Parl. Rhynchelytrum villosum (Parl.) Chiov. Rhynchelytrum microstachyum Balf.f. Tricholaena microstachya (Balf.f.) T.Durand & Schinz fide Zizka in Bibliotheca Botanica 138: 60 (1988). |
| Status: | Native |
| Description: | Tufted annual or rarely a short-lived perennial. Culms 25–90 cm high, 0.9–1.6(2) mm in diam. Spikelets (4)5–12 mm long, glabrous or hairy, conspicuously laterally compressed. Inferior glume (0.6)1.5–3(4.3) mm long, separated from the superior by an internode (0.5)0.7–1.7(2) mm long. Superior glume and inferior lemma membranous to coriaceous, often drawn out into a narrow and glabrous beak. (from JSTOR Global Plants website / Flora Zambesiaca) |
| 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: | 05 Apr 2009 |
| Camera make: | Canon |
| Camera model: | PowerShot A700 |
| Lens aperture: | f/4.0 |
| Shutter speed: | 1/800 s |
| ISO speed: | - |
| Content last updated: | 01 Jun 2020 |
