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|accepted_name=Polytrias
|accepted_authority=Hack.
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|hierarchy=Poaceae;Poaceae subfam. Panicoideae;Poaceae tribe Andropogoneae;Polytrias
|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 Andropogoneae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Polytrias]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 25
|mention_page=
|treatment_page=page 623
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>perennial; stoloniferous. <b>Culms</b> 10-40 cm, often decumbent and rooting at the lower nodes. <b>Leaves</b> not aromatic; ligules membranous, ciliate or fimbriate. <b>Inflorescences</b> terminal, solitary rames, spikelets in homomorphic sessile-pedicellate triplets of 2 sessile spikelets and 1 pedicellate spikelet; internodes without a median translucent line; disarticulation in the rames below the sessile spikelets, sometimes also beneath the pedicellate spikelets. <b>Spikelets</b> dorsally compressed, with 1 floret; sessile spikelets bisexual; pedicellate spikelets bisexual, unisexual, or sterile. <b>Glumes</b> equal, oblong, truncate, membranous; lower glumes with the margins incurved over the upper glumes; upper glumes keeled; florets bisexual; lemmas hyaline, bifid almost to the base, awned from the cleft; awns twisted, geniculate; anthers 3. <b>Pedicels</b> not fused to the rame axes, x = 10.</span><!--

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|distribution=Puerto Rico;Fla.
|discussion=<p><i>Polytrias</i> is a monotypic genus of the Asian tropics that has become naturalized in Africa and the Western Hemisphere. It is unusual within the Andropogoneae in having only one floret, rather than two, in its spikelets.</p>
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name=Polytrias
|author=Mary E. Barkworth;
|authority=Hack.
|rank=genus
|parent rank=tribe
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|family=Poaceae
|distribution=Puerto Rico;Fla.
|reference=None
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|source xml=https://jpend@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation.git/src/f6b125a955440c0872999024f038d74684f65921/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V25/V25_1523.xml
|subfamily=Poaceae subfam. Panicoideae
|tribe=Poaceae tribe Andropogoneae
|genus=Polytrias
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