''Homozeugos conciliatum'' is a species of grass in the family
Poaceae
Poaceae () or Gramineae () is a large and nearly ubiquitous family of monocotyledonous flowering plants commonly known as grasses. It includes the cereal grasses, bamboos and the grasses of natural grassland and species cultivated in lawns an ...
native to
Angola
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. It is known only from a single location in
Huambo Province
Huambo is a province of Angola. With an area of 34,270 km2, it is one of the geographically smaller provinces, situated in the Central Region approximately 450 km south east of the capital, Luanda.
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the central highlands at an elevation of about 1700 m.
''Homozeugos conciliatum''is a perennial herb forming clumps, spreading by means of underground
rhizomes
In botany and dendrology, a rhizome (; , ) is a modified subterranean plant stem that sends out roots and shoots from its nodes. Rhizomes are also called creeping rootstalks or just rootstalks. Rhizomes develop from axillary buds and grow hori ...
. Stems can attain a height of up to 100 cm. It is easily distinguished from the other species in the genus by its short
ligule A ligule (from "strap", variant of ''lingula'', from ''lingua'' "tongue") is a thin outgrowth at the junction of leaf and leafstalk of many grasses (Poaceae) and sedges. A ligule is also a strap-shaped extension of the corolla, such as that of a ...
s (less than 6 mmm long) and involute leaves.
References
External links
Grassbase - The World Online Grass Flora
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Panicoideae
Flora of Angola