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|accepted_name=Pharus
|accepted_authority=P. Browne
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|hierarchy=Poaceae;Poaceae subfam. Pharoideae;Poaceae tribe Phareae;Pharus
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Poaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>subfamily</small>[[Poaceae subfam. Pharoideae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>tribe</small>[[Poaceae tribe Phareae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Pharus]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 24
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|treatment_page=page 12
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>perennial, some apparently monocarpic; rhizomatous, sometimes cespitose or stoloniferous; monoecious. <b>Culms</b> 10-130 cm, erect to decumbent; internodes solid, frequently with prominent prop roots at the lower nodes. <b>Sheaths</b> open, glabrous; ligules usually scarious, sometimes membranous and ciliate; pseudopetioles conspicuous, twisted 180° distally, inverting the blades; blades linear to ovate, usually broad, usually tessellate, lateral veins diverging obliquely from the midvein. <b>Inflorescences</b> terminal panicles, ovate, open; rachises terminating in a staminate spikelet or naked; branches with uncinate hairs, spikelets appressed. <b>Spikelets</b> unisexual, dimorphic, sexes paired or pistillate spikelets solitary, with 1 floret; rachillas not prolonged beyond the florets; disarticulation above the glumes and in the panicle branches. <b>Staminate</b> spikelets smaller than the pistillate spikelets, attached below the pistillate spikelets on appressed pedicels; lower glumes shorter than the upper glumes or absent; lemmas longer than the glumes, ovate, 3-veined; lodicules 3, minute; anthers 6. <b>Pistillate</b> spikelets larger than the staminate spikelets, subsessile, elongate; glumes subequal, lanceolate, (3)5-9(11)-veined, purple or green; lemmas cylindrical, longer than the glumes, indurate, involute, with uncinate hairs over at least a portion of the surface, 7-veined, margins inrolled, concealing the palea; lodicules absent; staminodes 6, minute; styles 1, 3-branched, stigmas hispid, x = 12.</span><!--

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|distribution=Puerto Rico;Virgin Islands;Fla.
|discussion=<p><i>Pharus</i> includes eight species. It extends from central Florida through Mexico to Argentina and Uruguay, and grows in moist to wet lowland forests. One species, <i>Pharus glaber</i>, is native to the Flora region.</p><!--
--><p>The uncinate hairs and disarticulating panicle branches of <i>Pharus</i> promote dispersion by attaching to the coats of passing animals. The inverted, pseudopetiolate leaf blades and oblique venation make the genus easily distinguished, even in its vegetative state. Well-preserved female spikelets resembling those of <i>Pharus</i> mezii Prod, have been found in 30-45 million-year-old amber.</p>
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|id=clark1996a
|text=Clark, L.G. and E.J. Judziewicz. 1996. The grass subfamilies Anomochlooideae and Pharoideae (Poaceae). Taxon 45:641-645
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|id=hitchcock1951a
|text=Hitchcock, A.S. 1951. Manual of the Grasses of the United States, ed. 2, rev. A. Chase. U.S.D.A. Miscellaneous Publication No. 200. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, D.C., U.S.A. 1051pp.
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|id=judziewicz1987a
|text=Judziewicz, E.J. 1987. Taxonomy and morphology of the Tribe Phareae (Poaceae: Bambusoideae). Ph.D. dissertation, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, U.S.A. 557 pp.
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name=Pharus
|author=Emmet J. Judziewicz; Gerald F. Guala;
|authority=P. Browne
|rank=genus
|parent rank=tribe
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|family=Poaceae
|distribution=Puerto Rico;Virgin Islands;Fla.
|reference=clark1996a;hitchcock1951a;judziewicz1987a
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|subfamily=Poaceae subfam. Pharoideae
|tribe=Poaceae tribe Phareae
|genus=Pharus
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