Code
SPZFE
Growth form
Grass
Biological cycle
Vivacious
Habitat
Terrestrial
SPZFE
Growth form
Grass
Biological cycle
Vivacious
Habitat
Terrestrial
🗒 Synonyms
| synonym | Sporobolus breviglumis Hack. ex De Wild., nom. nud. |
| synonym | Sporobolus festivus var. dillonianus Schweinf. |
| synonym | Sporobolus festivus var. fibrosus Stapf ex Stent |
| synonym | Sporobolus menyharthii Hack. |
| synonym | Sporobolus myriostachyus Peter |
| synonym | Vilfa festiva (Hochst. ex A.Rich.) Steud. |
🗒 Common Names
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📚 Overview
Description
Global description
Sporobolus festivus is a small cespitose plant, with very narrow and convoluted linear leaves. The ligule is ciliate and very reduced. The inflorescence is a loose and delicate panicle. Spikelets are solitary and pedicellate. They are spindle-shaped, with an oval lower glume, an acute upper glume and a single flower. The grain is free, oblong.
Seedling
The seedling is rarely observed because it is a vivacious species that develops into a small bunch of tuft. The leaves dry out during the dry season, leaving only dry, fibrous bases of stems and leaves. At the beginning of the rainy season, new leaves reappear at the base of the tuft. They are very narrow, 2 to 3 cm long and 2 mm wide, with a convoluted blade and a rolled prefoliation. The sheath is finely ciliated on the margin. The ligule is reduced and very shortly ciliate. The blade is filiform and glabrous, slightly scabrid on the margin.
General habit
Sporobolus festivus is a small cespitose tuft. The axes are not branched and are interconnected by very short rhizomes. The plant is 15 to 60 cm tall.
Underground system
The roots are fasciculate.
Culm
The culm is small, cylindrical and glabrous, with a diameter of 1 mm. The nodes are glabrous and light brown in color.
Leaf
The leaves are alternate. The sheath is glabrous, finely ciliated on the margin. It is not keeled. The ligule is ciliate, very reduced, high of 0.3 mm. The lamina is linear, with a long pointed tip at the top. It is straight and generally convoluted. It is 2 to 9 cm long and 1 to 3 mm wide. The margin is finely scabrous and both sides are glabrous. The base of old leaves is fibrous and dark in color.
Inflorescence
The inflorescence is a loose panicle with filiform branches, many times branched but not whorled. Spikelets are solitary and located at the end of branches.
Spikelet
Spikelets are borne by a pedicel 1 to 4 mm long. They are fusiform, 1 to 1.5 mm long. The lower glume is oval, 0.3-0.5 mm long. The upper glume is acute at the top and measures 1/2 to 2/3 of the length of the spikelet. The lemma and palea are acute, 1 to 1.5 mm long.
Grain
The grain is flattened, oblong, 0.5-0.7 mm long. It is free.
Sporobolus festivus is a small cespitose plant, with very narrow and convoluted linear leaves. The ligule is ciliate and very reduced. The inflorescence is a loose and delicate panicle. Spikelets are solitary and pedicellate. They are spindle-shaped, with an oval lower glume, an acute upper glume and a single flower. The grain is free, oblong.
Seedling
The seedling is rarely observed because it is a vivacious species that develops into a small bunch of tuft. The leaves dry out during the dry season, leaving only dry, fibrous bases of stems and leaves. At the beginning of the rainy season, new leaves reappear at the base of the tuft. They are very narrow, 2 to 3 cm long and 2 mm wide, with a convoluted blade and a rolled prefoliation. The sheath is finely ciliated on the margin. The ligule is reduced and very shortly ciliate. The blade is filiform and glabrous, slightly scabrid on the margin.
General habit
Sporobolus festivus is a small cespitose tuft. The axes are not branched and are interconnected by very short rhizomes. The plant is 15 to 60 cm tall.
Underground system
The roots are fasciculate.
Culm
The culm is small, cylindrical and glabrous, with a diameter of 1 mm. The nodes are glabrous and light brown in color.
Leaf
The leaves are alternate. The sheath is glabrous, finely ciliated on the margin. It is not keeled. The ligule is ciliate, very reduced, high of 0.3 mm. The lamina is linear, with a long pointed tip at the top. It is straight and generally convoluted. It is 2 to 9 cm long and 1 to 3 mm wide. The margin is finely scabrous and both sides are glabrous. The base of old leaves is fibrous and dark in color.
Inflorescence
The inflorescence is a loose panicle with filiform branches, many times branched but not whorled. Spikelets are solitary and located at the end of branches.
Spikelet
Spikelets are borne by a pedicel 1 to 4 mm long. They are fusiform, 1 to 1.5 mm long. The lower glume is oval, 0.3-0.5 mm long. The upper glume is acute at the top and measures 1/2 to 2/3 of the length of the spikelet. The lemma and palea are acute, 1 to 1.5 mm long.
Grain
The grain is flattened, oblong, 0.5-0.7 mm long. It is free.
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📚 Nomenclature and Classification
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📚 Natural History
Cyclicity
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Sporobolus festivus is a vivacious species. It multiplies mainly vegetatively, by issuing short rhizomes from which new axes develop within the same tuft. Reproduction by seed is also possible, but germination is rare.
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Look Alikes
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Characters to distinguish some Sporobolus spp.
| Size | Inflorescence | Branches | Spikelet | Glumes | Species |
| 90-160 cm | Spike-like with spreading branches | 5-10 cm | 1,7-2 mm |
Subequal |
Sporobolus pyramidalis |
| 30-100 cm | Spike-like, narrow with appressed branches | 1-2 cm | 1,8-2 mm |
Slightly different |
Sporobolus indicus |
| 30-110 cm | Spike-like, narrow with appressed branches | 1-2 cm | 2,1-2,8 mm |
Very different |
Sporobolus africanus |
| 10-60 cm | Diffuse panicle | 1-1,5 mm | Subequal Gl inf 0,4-0,6 mm Gl sup 0,6-1 mm 1/2 < Gl sup < L spikelet |
Sporobolus festivus |
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Ecology
Northern Cameroon: Sporobolus festivus is a species that is found mainly in Sudanese regions with an annual rainfall of between 1,000 and 1,500 mm. It grows on shallow soils that are outcropping and forming a water retention basin. This species is found in wooded savannahs and in fallow land. It is also a crop weed, characteristic of recently cleared plots. It disappears from the plots after a few years of consecutive crops, especially when there are many cultural operations (plowing, weeding, hilling).
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📚 Habitat and Distribution
General Habitat
Worldwide distribution
Sporobolus festivus is a common species in tropical and southern Africa, Madagascar and India.
Sporobolus festivus is a common species in tropical and southern Africa, Madagascar and India.
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📚 Occurrence
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📚 Demography and Conservation
Risk Statement
Local harmfulness
Northern Cameroon: Sporobolus festivus is an infrequent weed in crops, mostly present in newly cultivated plots. It is never abundant because it does not support repeated cultural practices (plowing, hilling, weeding).
Northern Cameroon: Sporobolus festivus is an infrequent weed in crops, mostly present in newly cultivated plots. It is never abundant because it does not support repeated cultural practices (plowing, hilling, weeding).
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📚 Uses and Management
📚 Information Listing
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References
- Stanfield D.P., 1970. The flora of Nigeria, Grasses. Stanfield and Lowe ed., Ibadan University Press, Ibadan, Nigeria, 118p.
- Holm L. G., Plucknett D. L., Pancho J. V. & Herberger J. P., 1977. The World's Worst Weeds : Distribution and Biologie. East-West Center, University Press of Hawaii, Honolulu, 609p.
- Zon van der A.P.M., 1992. Graminées du Cameroun, Vol. II, Flore. Wageningen Agric. Univ. Papers 92 - 1, Wageningen, 557p.
- Berhaut J., 1967. Flore du Sénégal. 2ème éd. Clairafrique éd., Dakar, Sénégal, 485p.
- Le Bourgeois, T. and H. Merlier (1995). Adventrop - Les adventices d'Afrique soudano-sahélienne. Montpellier, France, Cirad.637p.
- Le Bourgeois Th., 1993. Les mauvaises herbes dans la rotation cotonnière au Nord-Cameroun (Afrique) - Amplitude d'habitat et degré d'infestation - Cycle de développement. Thèse USTL Montpellier II, Montpellier, France, 241p.
- Hutchinson J., Dalziel J. M., Keay R. W. J. & Hepper F. N., 1972. Flora of West Tropical Africa. Vol. III part. 2. 2ème éd. The Whitefriars Press ed., London & Tonbridge, 574p.
- Vanden Berghen C., 1983. Matériaux pour une flore de la végétation herbacée de la Casamance occidentale, Sénégal,Fascicule 2, Gramineae. Jardin Botanique National de Belgique, 66p.
Information Listing > References
- Stanfield D.P., 1970. The flora of Nigeria, Grasses. Stanfield and Lowe ed., Ibadan University Press, Ibadan, Nigeria, 118p.
- Holm L. G., Plucknett D. L., Pancho J. V. & Herberger J. P., 1977. The World's Worst Weeds : Distribution and Biologie. East-West Center, University Press of Hawaii, Honolulu, 609p.
- Zon van der A.P.M., 1992. Graminées du Cameroun, Vol. II, Flore. Wageningen Agric. Univ. Papers 92 - 1, Wageningen, 557p.
- Berhaut J., 1967. Flore du Sénégal. 2ème éd. Clairafrique éd., Dakar, Sénégal, 485p.
- Le Bourgeois, T. and H. Merlier (1995). Adventrop - Les adventices d'Afrique soudano-sahélienne. Montpellier, France, Cirad.637p.
- Le Bourgeois Th., 1993. Les mauvaises herbes dans la rotation cotonnière au Nord-Cameroun (Afrique) - Amplitude d'habitat et degré d'infestation - Cycle de développement. Thèse USTL Montpellier II, Montpellier, France, 241p.
- Hutchinson J., Dalziel J. M., Keay R. W. J. & Hepper F. N., 1972. Flora of West Tropical Africa. Vol. III part. 2. 2ème éd. The Whitefriars Press ed., London & Tonbridge, 574p.
- Vanden Berghen C., 1983. Matériaux pour une flore de la végétation herbacée de la Casamance occidentale, Sénégal,Fascicule 2, Gramineae. Jardin Botanique National de Belgique, 66p.
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🐾 Taxonomy
| Root | Root |
| Kingdom | Plantae |
| Phylum | Tracheophyta |
| Class | Liliopsida |
| Order | Poales |
| Family | Poaceae |
| Genus | Sporobolus |
| Species | Sporobolus festivus Hochst. ex A.Rich. |
📊 Temporal Distribution
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