Diagnostic ³

"Perennials herbs; culms tufted, erect, 20-60 cm high; nodes glabrous. Leaves 5-20 x 2-5 cm, ovate-elliptic, elliptic or elliptic-lanceolate, acuminate, narrowed at base, pseudo-petiolate, surfaces with projections of false reticulate veins. Sheaths compressed, keeled, bases brownish to black. Ligules obscure. Panicles very lax, 5-20 cm long, 10-30 cm wide, loosely speculate; peduncles hairy. Utricles pyriform or obovate, 4-8 mm long, pores open at the top enclosing the ovary. Palea linear slightly exserted. Lodicules truncate. Styles 3, very long. Grains free from the inflated utricle."

Sources and Credits

1. (c) Reuben C. J. Lim, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-SA), https://www.flickr.com/photos/reulim/13571362845/
2. (c) Reuben C. J. Lim, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-SA), https://www.flickr.com/photos/reulim/13571371505/
3. (c) India Biodiversity Portal, some rights reserved (CC BY), http://eol.org/data_objects/26342920

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