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Records of this taxon from Caprivi are shown in the table below. Cases where the taxon is native, naturalised, possibly planted or definitely planted are all listed.
| Record number | No of images | Record date | Recorder(s) | Coll. | Det. | Conf. | Herbaria | Habitat | Location | Loc code(s) | Outing code | Planted code | Country | QDS | Grid ref. | FZ Div | Alt. (m) | Notes | Lat | Long | Loc Acc Code |
| 94529 | 0 | 10 Feb 1988 | GL Maggs | GL Maggs 208 | HH Kolberg | WIND | Growing in Mopane woodland. | Caprivi: Near Ibbu. | 0 | Namibia (Caprivi Strip) | 1724D1 | 0 | Annual grass, up to 50 cm high when in flower. Inflorescence an open panicle, 70 mm long, borne on slender peduncle obscured by lower leaf blade. Leaf blade narrowly tapering, folded, up to 200 x 8 mm, softly textured with very sparsely scattered white indumentum, margin tends to ciliate especially. Leaf sheath overlapping, same length as blade with long, white straight hairs. Culm slender, erect with scattered, fine, white indumentum, yellow-green with occasional purple tints, nodes purple with a band of fine white hairs. Spikelet ovoid, 2.5 mm long enclosed by long silky hairs often with pink tinge, awn lacking. Spikelet stalk fine undulating. Anthers exerted, 1.5 mm long, golden yellow. Ligule a band of dense white hairs with longer silky hairs on collar. | -17.625000 | 24.625000 | 4 | |||||
| 94348 | 0 | 18 Feb 1988 | GL Maggs | GL Maggs 370 | WIND | Caprivi: Inkasa Island, Malapo on banks on Linyandi River. | 0 | Namibia (Caprivi Strip) | 1724C3 | 0 | Perennial grass, up to 75 cm high when in flower. Inflorescence an open panicle, ovate in outing, 110 x 70 mm main axis erect but strongly sinuate, 2-flowered. Culms basally geniculate but steeply ascending otherwise erect, branched, slender but rigid, terete, dull green, nodes slightly gibbose and densely pubescent. Leaf blade lanceolate, up to 150 x 4 mm, usually expanded but margins tending to involute, dull green, glabrous, apex delicately tapered and withering, base slightly auriculate. Ligule a dense fringe of short, cream-coloured hairs especially long and conspicuous on collar. Leaf sheath tightly circumculmate, dull green to straw-coloured prominently ribbed, glabrous, persistent and fibrous at base. Racemes alternate, never whorled, ascending, at most 90 mm long, axis delicate, sinuate. Spikelets solitary, urn-shaped, 5 x 2 mm stalk apically cupular. Glumes scale-like, 1/3 of spikelet length. Lemma straw-coloured, densely sericeous with long silvery white to reddish hairs, awned. | -17.875000 | 24.125000 | 4 | |||||||
| 95514 | 0 | 22 Jan 2005 | S Bartsch MM Hochobes S Kruger ES Klaassen D Lutombi | ES Klaassen 1399 | ES Klaassen | WIND | Okavango, Rundu District: Caprivi/Botswana border. | 0 | Namibia (Caprivi Strip) | 1822B2 | 992 | 80 cm high; grass; Notes: Annual, 80 cm high, softly pubescent grass. Nodes covered with soft hairs. Leaves ovate. Ligule a fringe of hairs. Inflorescence a terminal, open panicle. Spikelets hairy. Uncommon. In damp clay soil of omuramba in full sun. | -18.026940 | 22.965000 | 2 | ||||||
| 93371 | 0 | 21 Jan 2005 | S Bartsch MM Hochobes S Kruger ES Klaassen D Lutombi | ES Klaassen 1375 | ES Klaassen | WIND | Okavango, Rundu District: Omega III, in omuramba. | 0 | Namibia (Caprivi Strip) | 1722D4 | 1013 | 90 cm high; grass; Notes: Tufted, 90 cm high, softly pubescent grass. Leaves ovate, ligule a fringe of hairs. Inflorescence a terminal, open panicle. Spikelets white hairy. Occasional, in full sun. | -17.849720 | 22.906940 | 5 | ||||||
| 93164 | 0 | 24 Jan 2005 | S Bartsch MM Hochobes S Kruger ES Klaassen D Lutombi | ES Klaassen 1423 | ES Klaassen | WIND | Okavango, Rundu District: Road from Omega III to Divundu. | 0 | Namibia (Caprivi Strip) | 1722C4 | 1016 | 60 cm high; grass; Notes: Tufted, annual, 60 cm high grass. Culms thin, red tinged. Nodes thickened. Inflorescence an open, terminal panicle. Spikelets soft hairy. Common | -17.975830 | 22.483330 | 5 | ||||||
| 95407 | 0 | 20 Jan 2005 | S Bartsch MM Hochobes S Kruger ES Klaassen D Lutombi | ES Klaassen 1332 | ES Klaassen | WIND | Okavango, Rundu District: Bagani to Kongola. | 0 | Namibia (Caprivi Strip) | 1822A1 | 1045 | 1 m high; grass; Notes: Tufted, 1 m high, annual, softly pubescent grass. Ligule a fringe of hairs. Leaves ovate. Culm nodes covered by soft hairs. Inflorescence a terminal, open panicle. Common, in sandy soil in full sun. | -18.042780 | 22.003060 | 2 | ||||||
| 93105 | 0 | 20 Jan 2005 | S Bartsch MM Hochobes S Kruger ES Klaassen D Lutombi | ES Klaassen 1353 | ES Klaassen | WIND | Okavango, Rundu District: Bagani to Kongola. | 0 | Namibia (Caprivi Strip) | 1722C3 | 1051 | 90 cm high; grass; Notes: Tufted, 90 cm high grass. Old leaves curled, pubescent. Ligule a fringe of hairs. Nodes thickened, covered with soft hairs. Occasional. | -17.981940 | 22.103610 | 5 | ||||||
| 95008 | 0 | 09 Jan 2005 | S Bartsch MM Hochobes S Kruger ES Klaassen D Lutombi | ES Klaassen 1302 | ES Klaassen | WIND | Okavango, Rundu District: Rundu - Divundu main road | 0 | Namibia (Caprivi Strip) | 1821A1 | 1092 | grass; Notes: 1 m high grass. Leaves lanceolate, softly pubescent. Ligule a fringe of hairs. Culm nodes thickened and hairy. Inflorescence a terminal panicle, delicate. Uncommon, in sandy soil in full sun. | -18.001110 | 21.059170 | 2 |
Total records found: 8
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