Code
PRRPA
grass
Biological cycle
annual
Habitat
terrestrial
synonym | Perotis patens var. parvispicula Robyns & Tournay |
synonym | Perotis scabra var. parvispicula (Robyns & Tournay) Cufod. |
synonym | Perotis transvaalensis Gand. |
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Global description
Perotis patens is an annual grass. Young shoots are prostrate, radiating around the base and then become erect, reaching 70 cm high. The sheath is glabrous with some stiff hairs up the margin. The ligule is membranous, truncate. The leaves are simple, alternate, slightly short (1.5 to 4.5 cm long), glaucous, oval acute to linear, the two sides glabrous and the margin lined with tuberculate stiff hairs. The inflorescence is a narrow cylindrical spike, hairy, reaching up to 28 cm long, yellowish to purplish in colour. The spikelets are solitary, lanceolate, narrow, 2.5 to 3.5 mm long, and extensively awned.Attributions | Wiktrop |
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Status | UNDER_CREATION |
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Madagascar: Perotis patens is a common species in the areas of Central, West and Southwest. It is especially a anthropophile plant, weed of dry cultures, sometimes very abundant in fallows. It is often found in degraded savannas on ferruginous or ferralitic soils.
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Status | UNDER_CREATION |
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Worlwide distribution
Perotis patens occurs in tropical and southern Africa, and in Madagascar.Attributions | Wiktrop |
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Status | UNDER_CREATION |
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Herbarium pictures ReCOLNAT: https://explore.recolnat.org/search/botanique/simplequery=Perotis%2520patens
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Root | Root |
Kingdom | Plantae |
Phylum | Tracheophyta |
Class | Liliopsida |
Order | Poales |
Family | Poaceae |
Genus | Perotis |
Species | Perotis patens Gand. |