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Latest revision as of 18:58, 11 May 2021
Plants usually perennial, occasionally annual in desert areas; cespitose and shortly rhizomatous. Culms 5-120 cm, unbranched. Leaves mostly basal; ligules of hairs; blades 2-5 mm wide. Inflorescences terminal, exceeding the upper leaves, dense, cylindrical to ovoid panicles, occasionally reduced to racemes; branches short, non-disarticulating; rachises concealed by the spikelets; disarticulation beneath the glumes. Spikelets laterally compressed, with 2-4 florets, only the basal florets bisexual, the next 2 florets usually staminate, the fourth floret, if present, sterile. Glumes subequal, clearly exceeding the florets, awned or unawned; lemmas firmly membranous, 3-veined basally, 5-7-veined distally, mucronate to shortly awned, awns shorter than 10 mm; anthers 3; ovaries glabrous, x = 10.
Discussion
Fingerhuthia is a genus of two species, one native to southern Africa and western Asia, the other endemic to southern Africa. One species has been grown in the Flora region.
Selected References
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