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Aristida L.

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Aristida L., Sp. Pl. 82 (1753)
Aristida L.

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Exotic
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New Zealand
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L.
L.
1753
82
ICN
Aristida L.
genus
Aristida

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Aristida

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Aristida L.

Annual or perennial tufts, usually with wiry culms and leaves either basal or mostly cauline. Ligule shortly ciliate. Leaf-blade narrow, linear, flat or rolled. Panicle contracted or open, sometimes spike-like. Spikelets 1-flowered, ☿, narrow, pedicelled; disarticulating above glumes. Glumes equal or unequal, usually 1-nerved, keeled, ± mucronate to shortly awned. Lemma 3-nerved, ± coriaceous, narrow, convolute or involute, terminating in a 3-fid awn, with or without a column. Palea « lemma, 2-nerved. Callus sharp, shortly bearded. Stamens 3, or 1. Lodicules 2 or 3. Caryopsis terete, or grooved; embryo small; hilum linear, almost = caryopsis. Fig. 18.

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Aristida L.
Aristida
Aristida L.

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Aristida L.
Australia
Queensland
Aristida L.
French Polynesia
Aristida L.
New Caledonia

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Names_Plants
1 January 2000
21 January 2014
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