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|accepted_name=Cladoraphis
|accepted_authority=Franch.
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|hierarchy=Poaceae;Poaceae subfam. Chloridoideae;Poaceae tribe Cynodonteae;Cladoraphis
|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 Cynodonteae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Cladoraphis]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 25
|mention_page=
|treatment_page=page 105
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>perennial; synoecious; rhizomatous, occasionally also stoloniferous. <b>Culms</b> 2-80 cm, hard, persistent, branched above the base. <b>Ligules</b> membranous, ciliate, cilia as long as or longer than the basal membrane; blades linear-lanceolate, becoming rolled, hard, and sharp-pointed. <b>Inflorescences</b> terminal, exceeding the upper leaves, panicles of racemosely arranged spikelike primary branches; primary branches woody, not disarticulating, apices hard, sharp; secondary branches shorter than 1 cm, otherwise similar to the primary branches, sometimes clustered. <b>Spikelets</b> 7-16 mm, laterally compressed, with 3-16(20) florets; florets bisexual; disarticulation above the glumes and beneath the florets. <b>Glumes</b> more or less equal, markedly exceeded by the florets; lemmas 3-veined, unawned; lodicules 2; anthers 3. <b>Caryopses</b> glabrous, x = unknown.</span><!--

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|distribution=Oreg.
|discussion=<p><i>Cladoraphis</i> is a southern African genus of two species, both of which grow in open, xeric, sandy habitats.</p>
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name=Cladoraphis
|author=Mary E. Barkworth;
|authority=Franch.
|rank=genus
|parent rank=tribe
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Poaceae
|illustrator=Linda A. Vorobik;Hana Pazdírková
|illustration copyright=Utah State University
|distribution=Oreg.
|reference=None
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|subfamily=Poaceae subfam. Chloridoideae
|tribe=Poaceae tribe Cynodonteae
|genus=Cladoraphis
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