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Electronic Flora of South Australia genus Fact Sheet

Family: Poaceae
Uranthoecium

Citation: Stapf, Hook. Ic. 31:t. 3073 (1916).

Synonymy: Not Applicable

Common name: None

Description:
Tufted annuals or short-lived perennials; leaf blade flat; ligule of hairs.

Inflorescence a spike-like panicle; spikelets with 1 sterile floret and 1 upper fertile, sessile, in few-flowered spikes falling with the internode of the rhachis above; first glume truncate, thin, the second more attenuate and longer; first lemma acuminate and longer than the glumes; second lemma shorter than the first, with a similar but smaller palea.

Distribution:  1 species endemic to Australia.

Biology: No text

Author: Not yet available


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