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|accepted_name=Tribolium
|accepted_authority=Desv.
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|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Poaceae;Poaceae subfam. Danthonioideae;Poaceae tribe Danthonieae;Tribolium
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Poaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>subfamily</small>[[Poaceae subfam. Danthonioideae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>tribe</small>[[Poaceae tribe Danthonieae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Tribolium]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 25
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|treatment_page=page 312
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Plants </b>annual or perennial; cespitose, sometimes stoloniferous, occasionally with rhizomes. <b>Culms</b> 2-60 cm. <b>Sheaths</b> open, throats glabrous or long-ciliate; ligules of hairs, or membranous and ciliate, or ciliolate; blades flat or rolled, glabrous or villous. <b>Inflorescences</b> terminal, sometimes also axillary, panicles, spikes, or racemes. <b>Spikelets</b> with 2-5(10) florets, distal florets reduced; disarticulation above the glumes and between the florets. <b>Glumes</b> exceeding or exceeded by the florets, herbaceous, 3-5-veined, glabrous or scabridulous, sometimes with stiff, papillose-based hairs, glume apices acute or acuminate; calluses glabrous; lemmas herbaceous, with acute or clavate hairs in marginal rows or variously scattered, lemma apices unlobed, acute to long-acuminate; paleas sometimes with tufts of hairs on the margins; lodicules 2, obtriangular, glabrous or with bristles, 1-3-veined, lodicule apices at least as thick as the base; anthers 3, 0.3-3.1 mm. <b>Caryopses</b> 0.7-2.2 mm long, 0.4-1.1 mm wide; pericarp poorly separable, dull, smooth or rugulose, glabrous; embryos 1/3 – 1/2 as long as the caryopses; hila punctiform. <b>x</b> = 6.</span><!--

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|distribution=Calif.
|discussion=<p><i>Tribolium</i> is a southern African genus of 10 species. It is unusual in the tribe in having unlobed lemmas, but has the haustorial synergids, bilobed or bi-awned prophylls, and stalked ovaries characteristic of the tribe. Linder and Davidse (1997) suggested that its closest relatives are probably <i>Schismus</i>, <i>Karroochloa</i>, and <i>Rytidosperma</i>.</p>
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|id=clifford1996a
|text=Clifford, H.T. 1996. Etymological Dictionary of Grasses, Version 1.0 (CD-ROM). Expert Center for Taxonomic Identification, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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|id=linder1997c
|text=Linder, H.P. and G. Davidse. 1997. The systematics of Tribolium Desv. (Danthonieae: Poaceae). Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 119:445-507
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|id=quattrocchi2000a
|text=Quattrocchi, U. 2000. CRC World Dictionary of Plant Names: Common Names, Scientific Names, Eponyms, Synonyms, and Etymology, vol. 4: R-Z. CRC Press, Boca Raton, Florida, U.S.A. 2896 pp.
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name=Tribolium
|author=Gerrit Davidse;
|authority=Desv.
|rank=genus
|parent rank=tribe
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Poaceae
|distribution=Calif.
|reference=clifford1996a;linder1997c;quattrocchi2000a
|publication title=
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|subfamily=Poaceae subfam. Danthonioideae
|tribe=Poaceae tribe Danthonieae
|genus=Tribolium
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