(Last Modified On 10/16/2012)
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(Last Modified On 10/16/2012)
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Genus
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JOUVEA
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Bull. Soc. Bot. Belg. 15:475. 1877.
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Description
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Dioecious; staminate spikelets several to many-flowered, sessile, somewhat dis- tant on opposite sides of the rachis, forming a terminal loose spike, the florets closely imbricate; glumes shorter than the first floret; lemmas 3-nerved, acute, awnless; pistillate spikelets in the axils of the leaves, single or in fascicles of 3 or 4, terete, somewhat curved, acuminate, consisting of 1-3 florets imbedded in the spongy tissue of the thickened rachilla, only the summit of the floret free; style and base of stigma elongate, 2-lobed.
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Note
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Tough, wiry, stoloniferous perennials.
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