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|accepted_name=Hainardia
|accepted_authority=Greuter
|publications=
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Poaceae;Poaceae subfam. Pooideae;Poaceae tribe Poeae;Hainardia
|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>[[Hainardia]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 24
|mention_page=
|treatment_page=page 689
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>annual. <b>Culms</b> 5-45 cm, branched above the base; internodes solid. <b>Uppermost</b> sheath open, often partially enclosing the inflorescences; auricles absent; ligules membranous, truncate; blades flat or convolute. <b>Inflorescences</b> single, terminal spikes, cylindrical, with solitary spikelets embedded in and radial to the rachises, the abaxial surface of the upper glumes exposed; disarticulation at the rachis nodes. <b>Spikelets</b> dorsiventrally compressed, with 1-2 florets, second floret reduced and sterile; rachillas sometimes prolonged beyond the base of the distal floret. <b>Lower</b> glumes absent from all but the terminal spikelets; upper glumes coriaceous, stiff, longer and firmer than the lemmas, rigid, 3-7(9)-veined, acute, unawned, sometimes mucronate; lower lemmas membranous, lanceolate, 3(5)-veined, unawned; paleas hyaline; anthers 1-3; lodicules 2, oblique, glabrous, fleshy basally. <b>Caryopses</b> shorter than the lemmas, oblong, somewhat dorsally compressed, with an apical appendage, concealed at maturity; embryos about 1/5 the length of the caryopses; hila short, linear, x = 13.</span><!--

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|distribution=S.C.;Calif.;Oreg.;Tex.;La.
|discussion=<p>Hainardia is a monospecific European genus that grows in saline and alkaline soils. It resembles Parapbolis, which also occupies coastal salt marshes, but Parapholis differs in having spikelets with 2 glumes and culms with hollow internodes.</p>
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|references={{Treatment/Reference
|id=gandhi1996a
|text=Gandhi, K.N. 1996. Nomenclatural novelties for Western Hemisphere plants I. Harvard Pap. Bot. 8:63-66
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|id=greuterw196a
|text=Greuter.W. and K.H. Rechinger. 1967. Chloris Kythereia. Boissiera 13:22-196
}}{{Treatment/Reference
|id=runenark1962a
|text=Runenark, H. 1962. A revision of Parapholis and Monerma (Gramineae) in the Mediterranean. Bot. Not. 115:1-17.
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name=Hainardia
|author=James P. Smith; Jr.;
|authority=Greuter
|rank=genus
|parent rank=tribe
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Poaceae
|distribution=S.C.;Calif.;Oreg.;Tex.;La.
|reference=gandhi1996a;greuterw196a;runenark1962a
|publication title=
|publication year=
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|subfamily=Poaceae subfam. Pooideae
|tribe=Poaceae tribe Poeae
|genus=Hainardia
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