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Published In: Prodromus Florae Novae Hollandiae 207. 1810. (Prodr.) Name publication detailView in BotanicusView in Biodiversity Heritage Library
 

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Acceptance : Accepted
Project Data     (Last Modified On 6/3/2011)
General/Distribution: A genus of 12 species in tropical and subtropical regions of the Old World; also in the Americas; 2 species are so far recorded from Pakistan.

 

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Tufted or stoloniferous perennials. Leaf-blades flat; ligule a very short ciliate. membrane. Inflorescence a single raceme embraced below by the subtending sheath, borne in the upper axils of the culm; racemes tough, dorsally compressed; internodes thickened, clavate, nearly always obliquely articulated, fused to the adjacent pedicel. Sessile spikelet dorsally compressed; lower glume narrowly elliptic, rigidly herbaceous, broadly convex, 2-keeled, smooth, indistinctly winged above, obtuse, caudate or bifid; upper lemma entire and awnless; caryopsis narrowly obovoid, slightly dorsally compressed. Pedicelled spikelet like the sessile; pedicel flattened, broadly linear.
 

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1 Articulations of the rhachis oblique; callus triangular; lower glume of sessile spikelet 3-4 mm long Hemarthria compressa
+ Articulations of the rhachis transverse; callus short and truncate; lower glume of sessile spikelet 4.5- 7.5 mm long Hemarthria sibirica
 
 
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