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Sclerodactylon Stapf

Cope, T.A. (1999) Poaceae Flora Zambesiaca 10(2)

Description of the genus

Inflorescence of paired or digitate racemes; racemes with imbricate, sessile or subsessile spikelets. Spikelets several-flowered, laterally compressed, disarticulating between the florets or several florets falling together, glabrous; glumes unequal, shorter than the lemmas; lemmas keeled, coriaceous, acute at the apex. Caryopsis elliptic, smooth, the pericarp free.

Worldwide: One species in coastal regions of East Africa, Madagascar and Indian Ocean Islands.

Mozambique: 1 taxon.

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macrostachyum (Benth.) A. Camus

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African Plants: A Photo Guide (Senckenberg): Sclerodactylon
BHL (Biodiversity Heritage Library): Sclerodactylon
EOL (Encyclopedia of Life): Sclerodactylon
GBIF (Global Biodiversity Information Facility): Sclerodactylon
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iNaturalist: Sclerodactylon
IPNI (International Plant Names Index): Sclerodactylon
JSTOR Plant Science: Sclerodactylon
Mansfeld World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops: Sclerodactylon
Plants of the World Online: Sclerodactylon
Tropicos: Sclerodactylon
Wikipedia: Sclerodactylon
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Copyright: Mark Hyde, Bart Wursten, Petra Ballings and Meg Coates Palgrave 2007-24

Hyde, M.A., Wursten, B.T., Ballings, P. & Coates Palgrave, M. (2024). Flora of Mozambique: Genus page: Sclerodactylon.
https://www.mozambiqueflora.com/speciesdata/genus.php?genus_id=2038, retrieved 22 December 2024

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