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Stipagrostis ciliata (Desf.) De Winter

Description

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Densely caespitose perennial, up to 80 cm high. Leaf-blades filiform, rolled, 2-20 cm long, smooth, stiff, pungent, somewhat glaucous, flexuous. Panicle 10-25 cm long, contracted or somewhat loose. Spikelets pallid, sometimes with a purple spot at the base; glumes subequal, glabrous, 12-14 mm long; lemma (including the column) 10-11 mm long, smooth, passing gradually into the awn without an obvious column or column well-developed and up to 3.5 mm long; callus 2.5 mm long, acute, shortly pubescent with longer hairs at the base of the lemma; column glabrous, becoming detached at maturity with the conical upper portion of the lemma; central branch of the awn 4-5 on long, plumose in the upper two-thirds but with an excurrent naked tip; lateral branches glabrous, up to 25 mm long.
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Flora of Pakistan Vol. 0: 50 in eFloras.org, Missouri Botanical Garden. Accessed Nov 12, 2008.
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Distribution

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Distribution: Pakistan (Baluchistan, fide Bor 1970); North Africa from Morocco to Egypt; Sudan and Ethiopia; Arabia and the Middle East; Macaronesia.
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Missouri Botanical Garden, 4344 Shaw Boulevard, St. Louis, MO, 63110 USA
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Flora of Pakistan Vol. 0: 50 in eFloras.org, Missouri Botanical Garden. Accessed Nov 12, 2008.
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Flora of Pakistan @ eFloras.org
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Flower/Fruit

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Fl.& Fr. Per.: April-May.
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Missouri Botanical Garden, 4344 Shaw Boulevard, St. Louis, MO, 63110 USA
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Flora of Pakistan Vol. 0: 50 in eFloras.org, Missouri Botanical Garden. Accessed Nov 12, 2008.
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Flora of Pakistan @ eFloras.org
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S. I. Ali & M. Qaiser
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Stipagrostis ciliata

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Stipagrostis ciliata, the tall bushman grass, is a species of grass in the family Poaceae. It occurs in Namibia's Namib Desert and the Kalahari. The grass grows 30–100 centimetres (12–39 in) tall and can be annual or perennial dependent on the amount of rainfall. It can be distinguished by a ring of long white hair surrounding each node.[2]

References

  1. ^ "Aristida ciliata Desf. - Plants of the World Online". Plants of the World Online, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Retrieved 2022-03-19.
  2. ^ Ehrenbold, Samuel; Keding, Viktoria (2015). It is Time to Identify Selected Plants and Animals of the Namib (2nd ed.). Namib Desert Environment Education Trust (NaDEET). p. 11.
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Stipagrostis ciliata: Brief Summary

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Stipagrostis ciliata, the tall bushman grass, is a species of grass in the family Poaceae. It occurs in Namibia's Namib Desert and the Kalahari. The grass grows 30–100 centimetres (12–39 in) tall and can be annual or perennial dependent on the amount of rainfall. It can be distinguished by a ring of long white hair surrounding each node.

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