(Last Modified On 10/22/2012)
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(Last Modified On 10/22/2012)
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Genus
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SACCHARUM L.
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Sp. P1. 54. 1753.
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Description
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Spikelets all alike, in pairs, one sessile, the other pedicellate, surrounded at the base by long silky hairs, the rachis readily disarticulating below the spikelets; glumes rather firm, 1- to 3-nerved, acute or acuminate; sterile lemma similar to the glumes but hyaline, the fertile lemma shorter than the glumes, hyaline, awn- less, sometimes wanting.
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Note
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Tall, coarse perennial grasses with large plume-like inflorescences of panicled racemes.
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