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(Last Modified On 10/22/2012)
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(Last Modified On 10/22/2012)
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OPLISMENUS Beauv.
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Fl. Owar. 2:14. pl. 68. f. I. 1810.
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Description
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Spikelets subsessile, solitary or in pairs, crowded, in two rows on one side of a slender rachis; glumes nearly equal, more than half as long as the sterile lemma, 3- to 5-nerved, the first long-awned, the second short-awned; sterile lemma longer than the fruit, mucronate or short-awned, enclosing a hyaline palea; fruit elliptic, acute, indurate, smooth and shining, the margins firm, enclosing the palea. Creeping, branching annuals or perennials with thin lanceolate or lanceolate- acuminate blades and inflorescences composed of few to several short, stiffly ascend- ing or spreading racemes approximate or rather distant on a main axis.
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a. Plants annual; rachis of racemes densely hairy; awns antrorsely scabrous ----- 1. 0. BURMANNI aa. Plants perennial; rachis of racemes scabrous; awns smooth -2. 0. HIRTELLUS
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