Comments
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Thelepogon elegans has been recorded only once from Pakistan, as an adventive in a cotton field near Sangla Hill. Whether or not it has become an established alien in this area has yet to be determined.
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- Missouri Botanical Garden, 4344 Shaw Boulevard, St. Louis, MO, 63110 USA
Description
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Coarse annual; culms 10-150 cm high, erect, supported by prop roots. Leaf-blades lanceolate, 4-20 cm long, 5-30 mm wide, cordate and often amplexicaul, glabrous or hispidulous, the margins finely pectinate-ciliate. Inflorescence composed of 2-17 racemes, the lower verticillate, the upper borne on a short common axis 1-5 cm long; racemes 4-15 cm long, very fragile. Sessile spikelet 5-13 mm long; lower glume narrowly ovate, prominently rugose; upper glume rugose across the back; upper lemma with an awn 1.5-2.5 cm long. Pedicel glabrous, a little longer than the sessile spikelet.
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Distribution
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Distribution: Pakistan (Punjab, adventive); tropical Africa extending to India, Burma and Indonesia.
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Derivation of specific name
provided by Flora of Zimbabwe
elegans: elegant
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- Mark Hyde, Bart Wursten and Petra Ballings
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- Hyde, M.A., Wursten, B.T. and Ballings, P. (2002-2014). Thelepogon elegans Roem. & Schult. Flora of Zimbabwe website. Accessed 28 August 2014 at http://www.zimbabweflora.co.zw/speciesdata/species.php?species_id=108450
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- Mark Hyde
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- Bart Wursten
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- Petra Ballings
