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Agrostis volkensii Stapf | |
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Graminae Common names: Agrostis |
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| Description Densely tufted erect perennial with culms 6-45 cm high. Leaf-blades involute, stiff, scaberulous up to 10 cm long. Panicle narrowly oblong 2.5-15 cm long, open but rarely contracted; branches flexuous and sparsely asperulous. Spikelets 2.5-4.5 mm long, purplish; lemma pilose to glabrate, awned from 1/4 way up the back. Habitat Moist patches in the ericaceous belt usually on shallow soil overlying rocky ground Altitude range 2880-4850 m. Distribution Kenya; also in Uganda and United Republic of Tanzania. Use Not recorded. Similar Species Agrostis kilimandscharica but that species usually has flat leaf-blades. Agrostis trachyphylla but that species has ± stiff appressed branches to the panicle. |
 Agrostis volkensii |
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