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|accepted_name=Stenotaphrum
|accepted_authority=Trin.
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|hierarchy=Poaceae;Poaceae subfam. Panicoideae;Poaceae tribe Paniceae;Stenotaphrum
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Poaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>subfamily</small>[[Poaceae subfam. Panicoideae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>tribe</small>[[Poaceae tribe Paniceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Stenotaphrum]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 25
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|treatment_page=page 560
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>annual or perennial; sometimes rhizomatous or stoloniferous. <b>Culms</b> 10-60 cm, usually compressed; internodes solid. <b>Leaves</b> cauline; sheaths shorter than the internodes, compressed; ligules membranous and ciliate or of hairs; blades flat or folded. <b>Inflorescences</b> spikelike panicles; branches very short, with fewer than 10 spikelets, appressed to and partially embedded in the flattened, corky rachises; disarticulation below the glumes, often with a segment of the branch. <b>Spikelets</b> lanceolate to ovate, unawned, lower glumes oriented away from the branch axes. <b>Glumes</b> membranous; lower glumes scalelike, usually without veins; upper glumes 5-7-veined; lower florets staminate or sterile, lemmas 3-9-veined; upper florets bisexual; upper lemmas longer than the glumes, papery to subcoriaceous, 3-5-veined; upper paleas generally indurate, 2-veined; anthers 3. <b>Caryopses</b> lanceolate to ovate, often failing to develop, x = 9.</span><!--

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|distribution=Va.;Okla.;Miss.;Tex.;La.;Calif.;Puerto Rico;Virgin Islands;Ala.;Tenn.;N.C.;S.C.;Pacific Islands (Hawaii);Ga.;Fla.;Mo.;N.Mex.
|discussion=<p><i>Stenotaphrum</i> is a genus of seven species that usually grow on the seashore or near the coast, primarily along the Indian Ocean rim. Three species are endemic to Madagascar, and one species is thought to be native to the Flora region.</p>
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|id=busey1982a
|text=Busey, P., T.K. Broschat, and B.J. Center. 1982. Classification of St. Augustinegrass. Crop Sci. (Madison) 22:469-173
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|id=sauer1972b
|text=Sauer, J.D. 1972. Revision of Stenotaphrum (Gramineae: Paniceae) with attention to its historical geography. Brittonia 24:202-222.
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name=Stenotaphrum
|author=Kelly W. Allred;
|authority=Trin.
|rank=genus
|parent rank=tribe
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|family=Poaceae
|distribution=Va.;Okla.;Miss.;Tex.;La.;Calif.;Puerto Rico;Virgin Islands;Ala.;Tenn.;N.C.;S.C.;Pacific Islands (Hawaii);Ga.;Fla.;Mo.;N.Mex.
|reference=busey1982a;sauer1972b
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|subfamily=Poaceae subfam. Panicoideae
|tribe=Poaceae tribe Paniceae
|genus=Stenotaphrum
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