Family: Poaceae
Enteropogon
Citation:
Nees, in Lindley, Nal. Syst. Bot. edn 2:448 (1836).
Synonymy: Not Applicable Common name: None
Description:
Tufted perennials, with usually branched culms; leaf blades flat or folded, ligule a ciliate membrane.
Inflorescence of spikes arranged digitately; spikelets of 1 bisexual floret and 1 or 2 reduced florets, sessile, arranged in 2 rows on one side of the rhachis of the spikes; glumes 2, unequal, 1-nerved, keeled; fertile lemma dorsally compressed, 3-nerved, glabrous, with a straight terminal awn; upper florets smaller, lacking paleas, awned; callus bearded.
Distribution:
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12 species from Africa, Europe, Asia and Australia; 6 in Australia. (Lazarides (1972) Aust. J. Bot. suppl, ser. 5; Simon (1984) Austrobaileya 2:1-6).
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Biology:
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Author:
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