WorldFloraDB - Nardus

Characteristics

Spikelets 1-fld, solitary and sessile, arising from shallow cavities and alternating on 2 sides of a 3-sided rachis, with a single minute glume; lemma lance-subulate, obscurely 3-veined, prolonged into a short awn, sharply infolded near each margin, the edges meeting over the linear obtuse palea; anthers filiform, elongate; stigma 1, filiform; densely cespitose perennial, the lower sheaths bladeless or with much reduced blade, the upper with narrow, linear, involute blade, the bluish spikelets in a slender spike, ascending, all turned in one direction. Monotypic.

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Tough, wiry perennials. Leaves: ligule an unfringed membrane; blade rolled in bud. Inflorescence a single, slender spike. Spikelets sessile, in two rows, laterally compressed. Glumes 1 (rarely 2) per spikelet, adnate to rachis and (if both present) to one another, without nerves, awnless. Lemma entire, 1-awned, 2 or 3-keeled, 3-nerved; awn apical, straight. Palea slightly shorter than lemma. Caryopsis: hilum short; embryo not waisted.

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