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|accepted_name=Rostraria
|accepted_authority=Trin.
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|hierarchy=Poaceae;Poaceae subfam. Pooideae;Poaceae tribe Poeae;Rostraria
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Poaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>subfamily</small>[[Poaceae subfam. Pooideae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>tribe</small>[[Poaceae tribe Poeae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Rostraria]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 24
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|treatment_page=page 756
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>annual; tufted or with solitary culms. <b>Culms</b> 3-60 cm, erect. <b>Leaves</b> mostly cauline; sheaths open, glabrous, pubescent, or pilose; auricles absent; ligules membranous; blades flat or involute, stiff. <b>Inflorescences</b> spikelike panicles, dense; branches scabrous to pubescent. <b>Spikelets</b> laterally compressed, with 2-7 florets; rachillas sparsely to moderately pubescent, prolonged or not beyond the base of the distal florets; disarticulation above the glumes, beneath the florets. <b>Glumes</b> unequal, membranous, glabrous or hirsute, keels ciliate, apices unawned; lower glumes shorter and narrower than the upper glumes, 1-veined; upper glumes subequal to the lowest lemmas, 3-veined; calluses usually glabrous, occasionally sparsely hairy; lemmas thin, membranous, 5-veined, glabrous or hirsute, margins shiny, scarious, apices acute, bifid, subterminally awned or unawned; paleas subequal to the lemmas, hyaline, veins sometimes extended into awnlike apices; anthers 3; ovaries glabrous. <b>Caryopses</b> glabrous, x = 7.</span><!--

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|distribution=Calif.;Oreg.;Tex.;La.;Ala.;N.Y.;Pa.;Ariz.;Md.;S.C.;Fla.
|discussion=<p><i>Rostraria</i> is a genus of approximately 10 species, all of which are native to the Mediterranean, southeastern Europe, and western Asia, where they grow in dry, disturbed sites. The genus is sometimes included in <i>Koeleria</i>; it differs in its annual growth habit and awned lemmas and paleas.</p>
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name=Rostraria
|author=Lisa A. Standley;
|authority=Trin.
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|parent rank=tribe
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|family=Poaceae
|distribution=Calif.;Oreg.;Tex.;La.;Ala.;N.Y.;Pa.;Ariz.;Md.;S.C.;Fla.
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|subfamily=Poaceae subfam. Pooideae
|tribe=Poaceae tribe Poeae
|genus=Rostraria
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