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Tufted perennial with horizontal woody rhizomes. Stems scapose. Leaf blade often ligulate. Involucral bracts leaf-like. Inflorescence a lateral or terminal head with up to 25 spikelets. Spikelets have many reddish-brown to black glumes. Nutlet blackish when mature. Worldwide: 60 species in the tropics and subtropics. Mozambique: 2 taxa. |
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Species | FZ divisions | Content |
gracilis Schrad. | MS | |
stolonifera Boeckeler |
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