Code
SAEAF
Growth form
grass
Biological cycle
vivacious
Habitat
marshland
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📚 Overview
Description
Global description
Sacciolepis africana is a vivacious herbaceous grass of flooded rice paddies that can also be found in shallow water where the roots form a dense mass. Spongy stubble, rooting at the nodes, 50 to 150 cm high. Occurs in swamps and shallow waters.
General habit
Glabrous vivacious grass with rhizomes and spongy thatch, rooting at lower nodes and can reach up to 2 m high.
Culm
The culms and rhizomes are robust swollen, spongy at the base but slender at the top.
Leaf
The leaf blade measure about 10 to 30 cm by 0.5 to 1.5 cm, it is wider in the middle and narrowly tapered towards the apex, the base is broadened, the faces are glabrous the margin is scabrous. The leaf sheath is smooth, the ligule is membranous, short, pale, crescent-shaped and well individualized.
Inflorescence
The inflorescence is a solitary and terminal spike, green, 7 to 30 cm long.
Spikelet
Spikelets, glabrous, 3 mm long showing a blunt top.
Sacciolepis africana is a vivacious herbaceous grass of flooded rice paddies that can also be found in shallow water where the roots form a dense mass. Spongy stubble, rooting at the nodes, 50 to 150 cm high. Occurs in swamps and shallow waters.
General habit
Glabrous vivacious grass with rhizomes and spongy thatch, rooting at lower nodes and can reach up to 2 m high.
Culm
The culms and rhizomes are robust swollen, spongy at the base but slender at the top.
Leaf
The leaf blade measure about 10 to 30 cm by 0.5 to 1.5 cm, it is wider in the middle and narrowly tapered towards the apex, the base is broadened, the faces are glabrous the margin is scabrous. The leaf sheath is smooth, the ligule is membranous, short, pale, crescent-shaped and well individualized.
Inflorescence
The inflorescence is a solitary and terminal spike, green, 7 to 30 cm long.
Spikelet
Spikelets, glabrous, 3 mm long showing a blunt top.
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📚 Nomenclature and Classification
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📚 Natural History
Life Cycle
Life cycle
Vivacious
Morphology
Growth form
Tuft plant with narrow leaves
Leaf arrangement
Alternate
Leaf type
Grass or grass-like
Grass-like leaf type
Grass leaf
Type of prefoliation
Rolled leaf
Latex
Without latex
Stem section
Round
Root type
Rhizome
Fibrous roots
Ligule type
Ligule membranous large
Hollow or solid stem
Hollow stem
Stipule type
No stipule
Leaf attachment type
with graminate sheathing
Fruit type
Grain of grasses
Lamina base
sheathing grass-like auriculate
Lamina margin
scabrous
Lamina apex
attenuate
Upperface pilosity
Glabrous
Lowerface pilosity
Glabrous
Lamina section
flat
Lamina Veination
Parallel
Flower color
Green
Inflorescence type
Spike
Stem pilosity
Glabrous
Life form
Grass
Geophytic plant
Ecology
Sacciolepis africana is a weed of deep water rice also found in shallow, slow moving water where roots may form a coarse and dense mass.
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📚 Habitat and Distribution
General Habitat
Habitat
Marshland
Description
Geographical distibution
Madagascar
Reunion Island
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Origin
Sacciolepis africana is native to Africa and Madagascar
Worldwide distribution
Sacciolepis africana is native to Africa and Madagascar
Worldwide distribution
Widespread in East and West Africa from Senegal to Zimbabwe and Madagascar.
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📚 Occurrence
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📚 Demography and Conservation
Risk Statement
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Local harmfulness
Benin: Sacciolepis africana occurs on coastal sandy and fluviolacustres areas, Sudano-Guinean on vertisols and bar soil, Sudano-Guinean transition, Sudanese and Central East Northwest. Rare but abundant when present.
Ivory Coast: Frequent and scarce.
Ghana: Frequent and usually abundant.
Mali: Rare and scarce.
Senegal: Rare and scarce.
Chad: Rare and scarce.
Benin: Sacciolepis africana occurs on coastal sandy and fluviolacustres areas, Sudano-Guinean on vertisols and bar soil, Sudano-Guinean transition, Sudanese and Central East Northwest. Rare but abundant when present.
Ivory Coast: Frequent and scarce.
Ghana: Frequent and usually abundant.
Mali: Rare and scarce.
Senegal: Rare and scarce.
Chad: Rare and scarce.
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📚 Uses and Management
Management
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Global control
For vivacious grass weed control tips irrigated rice and lowland in Africa, visit: http://portal.wiktrop.org/document/show/34Wiktrop
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📚 Information Listing
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Thomas Le Bourgeois
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References
- Akobundu I.O. and Agyakwa C.W (1998): a Handbook of West African Weeds. International Institute of Tropical Agriculture, Ibadan, Nigeria.100p.
- Grard, P., T. Le Bourgeois, J. Rodenburg, P. Marnotte, A. Carrara, R. Irakiza, D. Makokha, G. kyalo, K. Aloys, K. Iswaria, N. Nguyen and G. Tzelepoglou (2012). AFROweeds V.1.0: African weeds of rice. Cédérom. Montpellier, France & Cotonou, Bénin, Cirad-AfricaRice eds.
- Johnson, D.E. 1997. Les adventices en riziculture en Afrique de l'Ouest. ADRAO/WARDA, Bouaké, Côte-d'Ivoire.
- Akoègninou A., van der Burg W.J., van der Maesen L.J.G. 2006. Flore Analytique du Bénin. Backhuys Publishers, Wageningen. 1034 pp.
Information Listing > References
- Akobundu I.O. and Agyakwa C.W (1998): a Handbook of West African Weeds. International Institute of Tropical Agriculture, Ibadan, Nigeria.100p.
- Grard, P., T. Le Bourgeois, J. Rodenburg, P. Marnotte, A. Carrara, R. Irakiza, D. Makokha, G. kyalo, K. Aloys, K. Iswaria, N. Nguyen and G. Tzelepoglou (2012). AFROweeds V.1.0: African weeds of rice. Cédérom. Montpellier, France & Cotonou, Bénin, Cirad-AfricaRice eds.
- Johnson, D.E. 1997. Les adventices en riziculture en Afrique de l'Ouest. ADRAO/WARDA, Bouaké, Côte-d'Ivoire.
- Akoègninou A., van der Burg W.J., van der Maesen L.J.G. 2006. Flore Analytique du Bénin. Backhuys Publishers, Wageningen. 1034 pp.
Images
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🐾 Taxonomy
| Root | Root |
| Kingdom | Plantae |
| Phylum | Tracheophyta |
| Class | Liliopsida |
| Order | Poales |
| Family | Poaceae |
| Genus | Sacciolepis |
| Species | Sacciolepis africana C.E.Hubb. & Snowden |
📊 Temporal Distribution
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