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Olyra latifolia
Olyra latifolia
- Botanic Family
- Poaceae
- Author
- Linnaeus
Common Names
Geographical Habitats
- Angola
- NE. Argentina
- Belize
- Benin
- Bolivia
- Brazil
- Burkina Faso
- Burundi
- Cameroon
- Central African Republic
- Colombia
- Comoros
- Congo
- Costa Rica
- Cuba
- Ecuador
- El Salvador
- Equatorial Guinea
- Ethiopia
- French Guiana
- Gabon
- Ghana
- Guatemala
- Guinea
- Guinea Bissau
- Gulf of Guinea Islands
- Guyana
- Hispaniola
- Honduras
- Ivory Coast
- Jamaica
- Kenya
- Leeward Islands
- Liberia
- Madagascar
- Malawi
- Mexico
- Mozambique
- Nicaragua
- Nigeria
- Panama
- Paraguay
- Peru
- Puerto Rico
- Senegal
- Sierra Leone
- Sudan
- Suriname
- Tanzania
- Togo
- Trinidad & Tobago
- Uganda
- Venezuela
- Venezuelan Antilles
- Windward Islands
- Zaire
- Zambia
- Zimbabwe
Natural Habitats
- Forests
- pasture
- riversides
- forest margins
- montane areas
- riverine forest
Flowering Times
Fruiting Times
Perennial climbing or creeping herb with erect, climbing, leaning or decumbent culms to 6m. Hispid to glabrous leaves to 300mm x 100mm, pilose or glabrous leaf sheath. Panicles 200mm x 140mm, female spikelets to 25mm x 3.1mm with glumes to 12mm long, male spikelets greenish to purplish to 8.1mm x 0.9mm. White pubescent shining fruit to 5mm long.
Further References
- The Plant List 2
- VOPR
- Smithsonian
- Kew
- FOPE
- FOL