G.561. Tristachya Nees

DOLICHOCHAETE (C.E. Hubb.) J.B. Phipps

Description of the genus

Annuals or perennials. Ligule a line of hairs. Inflorescence an open or contracted panicle; spikelets mostly borne in triads with connate pedicels, less often in groups of 2-3 on long unequal free pedicels. Spikelets large, brown, 2-flowered, the lower floret male or barren. Lower lemma 5-7-nerved. Callus of upper floret pungent, conical. Upper lemma usually pubescent, rarely with hair-tufts, 2-lobed, geniculately awned.

Worldwide: 22 species in tropical and South Africa, Madagascar and tropical America

Mozambique: 5 taxa.

Tristachya nodiglumis

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SpeciesFZ divisionsContent
leucothrix NeesMSDescription
nodiglumis K. Schum.N,Z,MSDescription, Image
rehmannii Hack.ZDescription
superba (De Not.) Schweinf. & Asch.N,ZDescription
thollonii Franch.N

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IPNI (International Plant Names Index): Tristachya
Kew Herbarium catalogue: Tristachya

Copyright: Mark Hyde, Bart Wursten, Petra Ballings and Meg Coates Palgrave 2007-23

Hyde, M.A., Wursten, B.T., Ballings, P. & Coates Palgrave, M. (2023). Flora of Mozambique: Genus page: Tristachya.
https://www.mozambiqueflora.com/speciesdata/genus.php?genus_id=218, retrieved 23 March 2023

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