''Coelachyrum burttii'' is a species of
grass
Poaceae ( ), also called Gramineae ( ), is a large and nearly ubiquitous family (biology), family of monocotyledonous flowering plants commonly known as grasses. It includes the cereal grasses, bamboos, the grasses of natural grassland and spe ...
. it is a loosely tufted
annual
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native to the
Kondoa District of north-central
Tanzania
Tanzania, officially the United Republic of Tanzania, is a country in East Africa within the African Great Lakes region. It is bordered by Uganda to the northwest; Kenya to the northeast; the Indian Ocean to the east; Mozambique and Malawi to t ...
.
[Clayton, W.D., Phillips, S.M., Renvoize, S.A. (1974). Gramineae. Flora of Tropical East Africa 2: 177-449] Its leaf blades are up to 30 cm. long and 4 mm. wide, glabrous or sparsely hairy on the upper side.
Culms are 20 to 90 cm high, erect or sharply bent and rooting at lower nodes. It grows in grey sandy seasonally-wet soils in deciduous bushland and farm fallows between 1100 and 1600 meters elevation.
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References
Chloridoideae
Grasses of Africa
Endemic flora of Tanzania
Kondoa District
Plants described in 1936
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