Brachychloa S.M.Phillips

Genus

Angiosperms > Poales > Poaceae

Characteristics

Spikelets 3–7-flowered, laterally compressed, disarticulating above the glumes and between the florets; glumes subequal, subcoriaceous, not exceeding the adjacent lemmas, the inferior 1–3-nerved, the superior 3–7-nerved; lemmas 3–7-nerved, lightly keeled, glabrous or pubescent on the margins, 2-toothed and mucronate at the apex; palea gibbous.
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Inflorescence composed of racemes irregularly arranged along a central axis; racemes either long and deciduous or short, persistent and often crowded into a loose head, the spikelets shortly pedicelled, biseriate.
Caryopsis elliptic, sometimes trigonous in section, with free pericarp.
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Distribution

Brachychloa world distribution map, present in Mozambique

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:893140-1
WFO ID wfo-4000005200
COL ID 8VVPY
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Synonyms

Brachychloa

Lower taxons

Brachychloa fragilis Brachychloa schiemanniana