Synonymy: Not Applicable

Common name: Pap. Biol. Univ. Qld 1, 19:7 (1941).

Description:
Perennials, with a bushy habit; plants dioecious; leaf blades flat; ligule of hairs.

Inflorescence of heads of spikelets; male spikelets sessile or subsessile in small dense clusters with 1-3 outer ovate acuminate bracts scarcely exceeding the spikelets; the 2 glumes much shorter than the 2 lemmas which each have a palea and male floret; female spikelets in a similar head but with outer bracts which become hardened and variously shaped in the fruit.

Distribution:  1 Australian species.

Biology: No text

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