G.618. Monocymbium Stapf
Description of the genus
Perennials. Inflorescence a solitary raceme enclosed by a boat-shaped reddish spatheole and grouped into a loose compound panicle; raceme dense without homogamous pairs. Sessile spikelets dorsally
flattened; callus obtuse; lower glume not grooved; upper
glume awned; lower floret reduced to a hyaline lemma; upper
floret 2-lobed with glabrous awn. Pedicellate spikelets resembling the sessile but awnless. Worldwide: 3 species in tropical and South Africa Mozambique: 1 taxon. |
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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: Monocymbium. https://www.mozambiqueflora.com/speciesdata/genus.php?genus_id=249, retrieved 23 March 2023
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