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|accepted_name=Lithachne
|accepted_authority=P. Beauv.
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|hierarchy=Poaceae;Poaceae subfam. Bambusoideae;Poaceae tribe Olyreae;Lithachne
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Poaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>subfamily</small>[[Poaceae subfam. Bambusoideae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>tribe</small>[[Poaceae tribe Olyreae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Lithachne]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 24
|mention_page=
|treatment_page=page 30
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>perennial; loosely cespitose. <b>Culms</b> 6-75 cm, not woody; nodes numerous, swollen. <b>Sheaths</b> open; adaxial ligules membranous; pseudopetioles 1-2 mm; blades lanceolate to ovate, folding downwards at night or when stressed, bases and apices asymmetric. <b>Inflorescences</b> racemes, partly enclosed by the leaf sheaths; axillary racemes unisexual or bisexual, if bisexual, the staminate spikelets below 1 to several pistillate spikelets, pedicels clavate; terminal racemes staminate, pedicels filiform. <b>Spikelets</b> with 1 floret. <b>Pistillate</b> spikelets much larger than the staminate spikelets, floret borne on a persistent peglike rachilla internode; glumes exceeding the floret, subequal, several-veined; lemmas helmet-shaped, indurate, laterally compressed, the margins from overlapping the palea margins to nearly concealing the paleas; style branches 2, plumose. <b>Staminate</b> spikelets lanceolate, early deciduous; glumes absent; lemmas translucent, 3-veined; anthers 3. <b>x</b> = 11.</span><!--

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|distribution=Puerto Rico
|discussion=<p><i>Lithachne</i> has four species. Its primary range extends south from Mexico and the Caribbean islands to Ecuador, but there are disjunct populations in Peru, southern Brazil, northern Argentina, and Paraguay. One species is sold as an ornamental in the United States.</p>
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name=Lithachne
|author=Mary E. Barkworth;
|authority=P. Beauv.
|rank=genus
|parent rank=tribe
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|family=Poaceae
|distribution=Puerto Rico
|reference=None
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|subfamily=Poaceae subfam. Bambusoideae
|tribe=Poaceae tribe Olyreae
|genus=Lithachne
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