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G.387. Lintonia
Description of the genus
Perennial (ours). Inflorescence of several slender racemes, these either digitate or arranged along a central axis. Spikelets several-flowered, plump, alternate in 2 rows, disarticulating above the glumes but not between the florets; 2-4 lowermost florets fertile, remainder smaller and sterile. Glumes unequal, membranous, shorter than the lemmas. Lemmas dorsally rounded, 5-11-nerved, tough and cartilaginous, appressed-villous; bearing a dorsal awn from just below the emarginate or 2-lobed apex. Worldwide: 2 species in eastern and southeastern Africa Mozambique: 1 taxon. |
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Other sources of information about Lintonia:
Our websites:
Flora of Botswana: LintoniaFlora of Zimbabwe: Lintonia
External websites:
African Plants: A Photo Guide (Senckenberg): LintoniaBHL (Biodiversity Heritage Library): Lintonia
EOL (Encyclopedia of Life): Lintonia
GBIF (Global Biodiversity Information Facility): Lintonia
Google: Web - Images - Scholar
iNaturalist: Lintonia
IPNI (International Plant Names Index): Lintonia
JSTOR Plant Science: Lintonia
Mansfeld World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops: Lintonia
Plants of the World Online: Lintonia
Tropicos: Lintonia
Wikipedia: Lintonia
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