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|accepted_name=Aeluropus
|accepted_authority=Trin.
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|hierarchy=Poaceae;Poaceae subfam. Chloridoideae;Poaceae tribe Cynodonteae;Aeluropus
|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>[[Aeluropus]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 25
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|treatment_page=page 25
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>perennial; usually strongly rhizomatous or stoloniferous, rhizomes and stolons with persistent sheaths. <b>Culms</b> 5-40 cm, prostrate to erect, solitary or not; internodes numerous, short. <b>Sheaths</b> overlapping; ligules of hairs; blades usually stiffly spreading, flat or convolute below, folded distally, apices often cartilaginous and sharp. <b>Inflorescences</b> terminal, dense panicles of non-disarticulating spikelike branches racemosely arranged on elongate rachises, exceeding the upper leaves; branches 2.5-5 mm wide, axes triquetrous, spikelets closely packed, subsessile, in 2 rows. <b>Spikelets</b> bisexual, dorsally compressed, with 2-14 florets. <b>Glumes</b> unequal, exceeded by the florets, keeled; lower glumes 1-5 (7)-veined; upper glumes 3-9-veined; lemmas 7-11-veined, mucronate, mucros 0.1-0.3 mm; lodicules 2; anthers 3, 0.8-1.6 mm; style branches 2. <b>Caryopses</b> ovoid-ellipsoid; hila punctate, basal; embryos about 1/2 as long as the caryopses. <b>x</b> = 10.</span><!--

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|distribution=Ariz.
|discussion=<p><i>Aeluropus</i> is a genus of five species that extends from Portugal to China and northern India. The species are a good source of fodder and hay in Russia (Tzvelev 1976). One species has been cultivated in the Flora region.</p>
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|id=tzvelev1976a
|text=Tzvelev, N.N. 1976. Zlaki SSSR. Nauka, Leningrad [St. Petersburg], Russia. 788 pp. [In Russian].
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name=Aeluropus
|author=Mary E. Barkworth;
|authority=Trin.
|rank=genus
|parent rank=tribe
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|family=Poaceae
|distribution=Ariz.
|reference=tzvelev1976a
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|subfamily=Poaceae subfam. Chloridoideae
|tribe=Poaceae tribe Cynodonteae
|genus=Aeluropus
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