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Anadelphia Hack.

Genus

Angiosperms > Poales > Poaceae

Characteristics

Sessile spikelet slightly dorsally compressed to subterete; callus usually pungent, applied obliquely to the apex of the internode with its tip free; inferior glume usually not grooved on the back (grooved in A. scyphofera); superior glume usually awned; inferior floret reduced to a hyaline lemma; superior lemma bilobed, passing between the lobes into a glabrous to pubescent awn.
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Inflorescence a solitary raceme, exserted from or enclosed by a narrow spatheole and gathered into a scanty or copious false panicle; raceme loose, with few spikelets (sometimes only 1), without homogamous spikelet pairs; internodes and pedicels long and slender.
Pedicelled spikelets as long as the sessile, linear-lanceolate, acuminate, usually glabrous, with a narrowly oblong to linear callus, sometimes the spikelet much reduced or quite absent and its pedicel likewise much reduced.
Ligule a short ciliolate membrane; leaf laminas linear.
Caryopsis narrowly ellipsoid to subcylindrical.
Annuals or perennials.
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Hardiness (USDA) 9-12

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Distribution

Anadelphia world distribution map, present in Benin, Central African Republic, Congo, Gabon, Ghana, Guinea, Gambia, Guinea-Bissau, Liberia, Mali, Mozambique, Mauritania, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Chad, Togo, and Zambia

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:17452-1
WFO ID wfo-4000001817
COL ID 8VTR2
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Synonyms

Anadelphia

Lower taxons

Anadelphia afzeliana Anadelphia bigeniculata Anadelphia chevalieri Anadelphia funerea Anadelphia hamata Anadelphia leptocoma Anadelphia liebigiana Anadelphia macrochaeta Anadelphia trepidaria Anadelphia trichaeta Anadelphia pumila Anadelphia polychaeta Anadelphia trispiculata Anadelphia scyphofera
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