Fig. 137e Leaves situated throughout the stem. Inflorescence an umbellate panicle, the lower 2-3 bracts long, foliaceous. Spikelets small, the upper 1 or 2 flowers bisexual, the other 2-3 flowers male. Glumes imbricate, the lower ones often empty. Flowers compressed, the 2 outer hypogynous scales subopposite, folded, transverse and sharply keeled, the 2 inner ones flat or concave, parallel with the glumes. Stamens 3. Style broadened towards the base, with 2 filiform stigmas. Nut exserted from the glumes, crowned by the persistent style-base.
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