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Pseudechinolaena

Description

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Annual grass (in ours) confined to shady places in evergreen forests. Inflorescence composed of 1-sided racemes. Spikelets laterally flattened. Lower glume shorter (3/4) to as long as the spikelet. Upper glume gibbous with tubercle-based hooks and sometimes with wings. Upper lemma laterally flattened.

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bibliographic citation: Hyde, M.A., Wursten, B.T. and Ballings, P. (2002-2014). Pseudechinolaena Flora of Zimbabwe website. Accessed 28 August 2014 at http://www.zimbabweflora.co.zw/speciesdata/genus.php?genus_id=189
author: Mark Hyde
author: Bart Wursten
author: Petra Ballings

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Pseudechinolaena

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Pseudechinolaena is a genus of tropical and subtropical plants in the grass family, all but one species endemic to Madagascar.^[3]^[4]^[5]^[6]

Species^[2]^[7]

Pseudechinolaena camusiana Bosser - Madagascar
Pseudechinolaena madagascariensis (A.Camus) Bosser - Madagascar
Pseudechinolaena moratii Bosser - Madagascar
Pseudechinolaena perrieri A.Camus - Madagascar
Pseudechinolaena polystachya (Humb., Bonpl. & Kunth) Stapf - tropical - southern Africa, Asia (China, Indian Subcontinent, Thailand, Vietnam, Malaysia, Indonesia), New Guinea, Latin America (from central Mexico to Uruguay)
Pseudechinolaena tenuis Bosser - Madagascar

Formerly included^[2]

see Echinochloa

Pseudechinolaena helodes - Echinochloa helodes
Pseudechinolaena inflexa - Echinochloa inflexa
Pseudechinolaena spectabilis - Echinochloa polystachya

References

^ Tropicos, Pseudechinolaena Stapf
^ ^a ^b ^c Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
^ Stapf, Otto. 1919. Flora of Tropical Africa 9: 494
^ Hooker, Joseph Dalton. 1897. Flora of British India 7(21): 28, 58
^ Grassbase - The World Online Grass Flora
^ Flora of China Vol. 22 Page 500 钩毛草属 gou mao cao shu Pseudechinolaena Stapf, Prain, Fl. Trop. Africa. 9: 494. 1919.
^ The Plant List search for Pseudechinolaena

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Pseudechinolaena: Brief Summary

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Pseudechinolaena is a genus of tropical and subtropical plants in the grass family, all but one species endemic to Madagascar.

Species Pseudechinolaena camusiana Bosser - Madagascar Pseudechinolaena madagascariensis (A.Camus) Bosser - Madagascar Pseudechinolaena moratii Bosser - Madagascar Pseudechinolaena perrieri A.Camus - Madagascar Pseudechinolaena polystachya (Humb., Bonpl. & Kunth) Stapf - tropical - southern Africa, Asia (China, Indian Subcontinent, Thailand, Vietnam, Malaysia, Indonesia), New Guinea, Latin America (from central Mexico to Uruguay) Pseudechinolaena tenuis Bosser - Madagascar Formerly included

see Echinochloa

Pseudechinolaena helodes - Echinochloa helodes Pseudechinolaena inflexa - Echinochloa inflexa Pseudechinolaena spectabilis - Echinochloa polystachya

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