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|accepted_name=Cottea
|accepted_authority=Kunth
|publications=
|basionyms=
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|hierarchy=Poaceae;Poaceae subfam. Chloridoideae;Poaceae tribe Pappophoreae;Cottea
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Poaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>subfamily</small>[[Poaceae subfam. Chloridoideae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>tribe</small>[[Poaceae tribe Pappophoreae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Cottea]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 25
|mention_page=
|treatment_page=page 287
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>perennial; cespitose, softly pilose throughout. <b>Culms</b> 25-70 cm, ascending or erect from hard knotty bases. <b>Sheaths</b> pilose, rounded on the backs; blades flat, linear; microhairs of blades each with an elongated basal cell and an inflated terminal cell. <b>Inflorescences</b> terminal, open, rather narrow panicles; disarticulation above the glumes and between the florets. <b>Spikelets</b> with 6-10 florets, distal florets reduced. <b>Glumes</b> subequal, about as long as the lowest lemmas, pilose, 7-13-veined, midveins sometimes prolonged as short awns, apices acuminate or 3-toothed; lemmas rounded on the backs, with 9-13 prominent veins, some of these extending into antrorsely barbed awns of various lengths, others into awned teeth, awns and teeth not forming a pappuslike crown; paleas slightly longer than the lemmas, 2-veined, 2-keeled, keels hairy; anthers 3. <b>Cleistogamous</b> spikelets, usually consisting of a single floret, produced in the lower sheaths, x = 10.</span><!--

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|distribution=Ariz.;N.Mex.;Tex.
|discussion=<p><i>Cottea</i> is a monotypic American genus.</p>
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name=Cottea
|author=John R. Reeder
|authority=Kunth
|rank=genus
|parent rank=tribe
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Poaceae
|distribution=Ariz.;N.Mex.;Tex.
|reference=None
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|subfamily=Poaceae subfam. Chloridoideae
|tribe=Poaceae tribe Pappophoreae
|genus=Cottea
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