Description
provided by Flora of Zimbabwe
Perennials. Ligule a ciliate membrane. Inflorescence a single tough, dorsally flattened, raceme.
Rhachis internodes and pedicels stout, clavate; pedicels fused to the internode.
Sessile spikelet dorsally flattened; lower glume narrowly elliptic, smooth; lower floret reduced to a lemma; upper lemma awnless. Pedicelled spikelet similar to sessile but lacking a callus.
- license
- cc-by-nc
- copyright
- Mark Hyde, Bart Wursten and Petra Ballings
- bibliographic citation
- Hyde, M.A., Wursten, B.T. and Ballings, P. (2002-2014). Hemarthria Flora of Zimbabwe website. Accessed 28 August 2014 at http://www.zimbabweflora.co.zw/speciesdata/genus.php?genus_id=257
- author
- Mark Hyde
- author
- Bart Wursten
- author
- Petra Ballings