Code
HRRA
Growth form
Grass
Biological cycle
Annual
Habitat
Terrestrial
HRRA
Growth form
Grass
Biological cycle
Annual
Habitat
Terrestrial
🗒 Synonyms
| synonym | Chloris anomala B.S.Sun & Z.H.Hu |
| synonym | Chloris beyreichiana Steud. [Invalid] |
| synonym | Chloris beyreichiana Steud., pro syn. |
| synonym | Chloris beyrichiana Kunth |
| synonym | Chloris humilis Kunth |
| synonym | Chloris intermedia A.Rich. |
| synonym | Chloris leptostachya Hochst. ex A.Rich. |
| synonym | Chloris leptostachya var. intermedia (A.Rich.) T.Durand & Schinz |
| synonym | Chloris obtusifolia Desv. [Illegitimate] |
| synonym | Chloris obtusifolia Desv., nom. illeg. |
| synonym | Chloris radiata var. beyrichiana (Kunth) Hack. |
| synonym | Chloris salzmannii Steud. |
| synonym | Gymnopogon beyrichianus (Kunth) Parodi |
| synonym | Gymnopogon haumanii Parodi |
| synonym | Gymnopogon radiatus var. beyrichianus (Kunth) Parodi |
🗒 Common Names
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📚 Overview
Description
Global description
Chloris pycnothrix is an annual to perennial grass, forming a clump or with short stolons. It measures up to 50 cm high. The thatch is erect or more or less creeping. The basal sheaths are highly compressed, glabrous. The ligule is membranous, short and ciliated. The leaves are distichous, with short linear blade, slightly bent, rounded at the top and glabrous. The inflorescence is digitate, formed from 2 to 10 often purplish slender racemes, equipped with long bristles. Biflorous spikelets of 2.5 to 3 mm, with 2 long edges.
General habit
Plant in clumps or spread with runners rooted at the nodes, reaching 50 cm tall.
Underground system
Bunched fibrous roots
Culm
Compressed culm, glabrous, erect or somewhat creeping and geniculate-ascending. Glabrous nodes.
Leaf
Leaves simple, alternate, distichous. The basal sheaths are highly compressed, keeled, glabrous. The ligule is short, membranous, cilliated. The linear leaf blade is short, 1.5 to 15 cm long and 2-6 mm wide, flat to slightly folded, with a rounded or subacute apex. The faces are glabrous.
Inflorescence
The inflorescence is digitate, composed of 2 to 10 (15) linear and slender racemes, 4 to 10 cm long, and often purple.
Spikelet
The spikelets are biflorous, 2.5 to 3 mm long and have two long edges. The glumes are narrow, acuminate, with scabrous keel. The lower glume is 1.5 to 3 meters long and the upper glume is 1.8 to 3.2 mm long. The internal fertile flower has a narrow lemma 2.5 to 3.2 mm long, acute, with a scabrous margin, armed with a straight edge 10 to 27 mm long, often purplish. The palea is narrow, bicarinate, ciliated to the top. The external sterile flower is reduced to a scaly and scabrous lemma of 0.1 to 1 mm long, pedicellate, and extended by a shorter edge of 2 to 8 mm long.
Fruit
Grain is oblong lanceolate and about 2 mm long.
Chloris pycnothrix is an annual to perennial grass, forming a clump or with short stolons. It measures up to 50 cm high. The thatch is erect or more or less creeping. The basal sheaths are highly compressed, glabrous. The ligule is membranous, short and ciliated. The leaves are distichous, with short linear blade, slightly bent, rounded at the top and glabrous. The inflorescence is digitate, formed from 2 to 10 often purplish slender racemes, equipped with long bristles. Biflorous spikelets of 2.5 to 3 mm, with 2 long edges.
General habit
Plant in clumps or spread with runners rooted at the nodes, reaching 50 cm tall.
Underground system
Bunched fibrous roots
Culm
Compressed culm, glabrous, erect or somewhat creeping and geniculate-ascending. Glabrous nodes.
Leaf
Leaves simple, alternate, distichous. The basal sheaths are highly compressed, keeled, glabrous. The ligule is short, membranous, cilliated. The linear leaf blade is short, 1.5 to 15 cm long and 2-6 mm wide, flat to slightly folded, with a rounded or subacute apex. The faces are glabrous.
Inflorescence
The inflorescence is digitate, composed of 2 to 10 (15) linear and slender racemes, 4 to 10 cm long, and often purple.
Spikelet
The spikelets are biflorous, 2.5 to 3 mm long and have two long edges. The glumes are narrow, acuminate, with scabrous keel. The lower glume is 1.5 to 3 meters long and the upper glume is 1.8 to 3.2 mm long. The internal fertile flower has a narrow lemma 2.5 to 3.2 mm long, acute, with a scabrous margin, armed with a straight edge 10 to 27 mm long, often purplish. The palea is narrow, bicarinate, ciliated to the top. The external sterile flower is reduced to a scaly and scabrous lemma of 0.1 to 1 mm long, pedicellate, and extended by a shorter edge of 2 to 8 mm long.
Fruit
Grain is oblong lanceolate and about 2 mm long.
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📚 Nomenclature and Classification
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📚 Natural History
Life Cycle
Life cycle
Annual
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
Folded lead
Latex
Without latex
Stem section
Flat section
Root type
Fibrous roots
Ligule type
Ligule membranous and long ciliaite
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 smaller
Lamina margin
entire
Lamina apex
attenuate
Upperface pilosity
Glabrous
Lowerface pilosity
Glabrous
Simple leaf type
Lamina linear
Lamina section
folded
Lamina Veination
Parallel
Flower color
Green
Inflorescence type
Digitate racemes
Stem pilosity
Glabrous
Life form
Grass
Ecology
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Chloris pycnothrix is an anthropophilic species that thrives in fallows, roadsides, in degraded land and in overgrazed pastures.
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📚 Habitat and Distribution
General Habitat
Habitat
Terrestrial
Description
Geographical distibution
Madagascar
Reunion Island
Comoros
Mauritius
Seychelles
Chloris pycnothrix is present in tropical and southern Africa, in Madagascar and also known in Brazil, Paraguay and Argentina.
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📚 Occurrence
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📚 Demography and Conservation
📚 Uses and Management
Uses
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Livestock feed: Chloris pycnothrix is good but unproductive fodder plant; it is resistant to drought.
Other: Active pioneer species which hinders erosion.
Other: Active pioneer species which hinders erosion.
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📚 Information Listing
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References
- Poilecot, P. (1995). Les Poaceae de Côte-d'Ivoire. Genève, Suisse, Conservatoire et jardin botaniques de Genève.
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- Poilecot, P. (1995). Les Poaceae de Côte-d'Ivoire. Genève, Suisse, Conservatoire et jardin botaniques de Genève.
Images
Herbarium pictures ReCOLNAT: https://explore.recolnat.org/search/botanique/simplequery=Chloris%2520pycnothrix
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🐾 Taxonomy
| Root | Root |
| Kingdom | Plantae |
| Phylum | Tracheophyta |
| Class | Liliopsida |
| Order | Poales |
| Family | Poaceae |
| Genus | Chloris |
| Species | Chloris pycnothrix Trin. |
📊 Temporal Distribution
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