Diagnostic ²

"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) Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History, Department of Botany, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-SA), https://collections.nmnh.si.edu/services/media.php?env=botany&irn=10159297
2. (c) India Biodiversity Portal, some rights reserved (CC BY), http://eol.org/data_objects/26342920

More Info

• iNat taxon page
• Biodiversity Heritage Library
• BOLD Systems BIN search
• eFloras.org
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF)
• HOSTS - a Database of the World's Lepidopteran Hostplants
• IPNI (with links to POWO, WFO, and BHL)
• SEINet Symbiota portals
• Tropicos
• World Flora Online

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