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Electronic Flora of South Australia genus Fact Sheet

Family: Poaceae
Hainardia

Citation: Greuter, in Greuter & Rech. f, Boissiera i3:178 (1967).

Derivation: Derivation not available.

Synonymy: Not Applicable

Common name: None

Description:
Slender glabrous annuals; leaf blade flat or intolied; ligule short.

Inflorescence a slender spike; spikelets 1-flowered, sessile, solitary, distichous and half-embedded in the alternate notches of the rhachis of the spike; glume 1 (except in the terminal spikelet which has 2 glumes), stiff, 5-nerved, closing the cavity of the rhachis; lemma shorter, hyaline, 2-nerved; each spikelet falling off entire attached to its joint of the rhachis (but often rather tardy).

Distribution:  Monotypic, Mediterranean to the Middle-East.

Biology: No text

Author: Not yet available


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