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DIMERIA |
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Family : |
POACEAE |
Species of this Genus
Description
Annual
or perennial grasses. Culms slender, erect or decumbent, nodes bearded.
Leaf-blades linear, narrow, ligule membranous. Inflorescence solitary or
subdigitate, 1-sided racemes. Spikelets single, shortly pedicelled, usually
overlapping in two rows, callus hairy; glumes reddish, stiff, narrow, keeled,
subequal, upper one wider; lower floret sterile, reduced to a hyaline lemma,
upper floret bisexual; upper lemma hyaline, translucent, apex shortly
2-toothed, awned from sinus, awn glabrous, geniculate, apical part slender,
upper palea absent. Stamens 2, filaments short. Caryopsis narrowly oblong,
laterally compressed.