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Perennials (ours). Inflorescence usually a contracted panicle, but sometimes reduced to a raceme (as in our R. disticha). Spikelets 3-10-flowered; glumes subequal, as long as the spikelet or nearly so; floret callus obtuse. Lemmas 5-9-nerved, bearing tufts of hairs arranged in two transverse series, these sometimes reduced to two marginal tufts, 2-lobed at apex, the lobes usually awned and with an awn arising from the sinus.
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Hyde, M.A., Wursten, B.T. and Ballings, P. (2002-2014). Rytidosperma Flora of Zimbabwe website. Accessed 28 August 2014 at http://www.zimbabweflora.co.zw/speciesdata/genus.php?genus_id=144
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Rytidosperma

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Rytidosperma is a genus of plants in the grass family. Most of the species occur in Australasia, with a few in insular Southeast Asia, southern South America (Chile + Argentina), and certain islands of the Pacific (Hawaii + Easter Island).[2] Several are known by the general common name wallaby grass.[3]

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Species[1][4][5]
formerly included[1]

see Merxmuellera Tenaxia

References

  1. ^ a b c "Rytidosperma". Plants of the World Online | Kew Science. Retrieved 2023-05-24.
  2. ^ "Rytidosperma". Grassbase - The World Online Grass Flora. Retrieved 2023-05-24.
  3. ^ "Rytidosperma". USDA Plants Database. Retrieved 2023-05-24.
  4. ^ "ITIS - Report: Rytidosperma". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2023-05-24.
  5. ^ "Rytidosperma". The Plant List. Retrieved 2023-05-24.
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Rytidosperma: Brief Summary

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Rytidosperma is a genus of plants in the grass family. Most of the species occur in Australasia, with a few in insular Southeast Asia, southern South America (Chile + Argentina), and certain islands of the Pacific (Hawaii + Easter Island). Several are known by the general common name wallaby grass.

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Rytidosperma. Species Rytidosperma acerosum (Western Australia) Rytidosperma alpicola (New South Wales, Victoria) Rytidosperma auriculatum - Lobed wallaby-grass (South Australia, New South Wales, Victoria) Rytidosperma australe (New South Wales, Victoria, Tasmania) Rytidosperma biannulare Rytidosperma bipartitum - Leafy wallaby-grass Rytidosperma bonthainicum Rytidosperma buchananii Rytidosperma caespitosum - Common wallaby-grass Rytidosperma carphoides - Short wallaby-grass Rytidosperma clavatum Rytidosperma clelandii Rytidosperma corinum Rytidosperma craigii Rytidosperma dendeniwae Rytidosperma diemenicum Rytidosperma dimidiatum Rytidosperma duttonianum - Brown-back wallaby-grass Rytidosperma erianthum - Hill wallaby-grass Rytidosperma exiguum Rytidosperma fortunae-hibernae Rytidosperma fulvum - Copper-awned wallaby-grass Rytidosperma geniculatum - Kneed wallaby-grass Rytidosperma gracile Rytidosperma horrens Rytidosperma indutum - Shiny wallaby-grass, yellow-anther wallaby-grass Rytidosperma irianense Rytidosperma javanicum Rytidosperma laeve - Smooth wallaby-grass Rytidosperma lechleri Rytidosperma lepidopodum - Scaly-foot wallaby-grass Rytidosperma longifolium Rytidosperma maculatum Rytidosperma mamberamense Rytidosperma merum Rytidosperma monticola - Small-flower wallaby-grass Rytidosperma montis-wilhelmi Rytidosperma nardifolium Rytidosperma nigricans Rytidosperma nitens Rytidosperma nivicola Rytidosperma nudiflorum Rytidosperma nudum Rytidosperma occidentale Rytidosperma oreoboloides Rytidosperma oreophilum Rytidosperma pallidum - Red-anther wallaby-grass, silvertop wallaby-grass Rytidosperma paschale Rytidosperma pauciflorum Rytidosperma penicillatum - Weeping wallaby-grass, slender wallaby-grass Rytidosperma petrosum Rytidosperma pictum Rytidosperma pilosum - Velvet wallaby-grass Rytidosperma popinensis Rytidosperma pulchrum Rytidosperma pumilum Rytidosperma quirihuense Rytidosperma racemosum - Slender wallaby-grass, striped wallaby-grass, clustered wallaby-grass Rytidosperma remotum Rytidosperma richardsonii Rytidosperma semiannulare - Wetland wallaby-grass, Tasmanian wallaby-grass Rytidosperma setaceum - Bristly wallaby-grass Rytidosperma setifolium Rytidosperma sorianoi Rytidosperma telematicum Rytidosperma tenue Rytidosperma tenuius - Purplish wallaby-grass Rytidosperma thomsonii Rytidosperma unarede Rytidosperma vestitum Rytidosperma vickeryae Rytidosperma violaceum Rytidosperma virescens Rytidosperma viride formerly included

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Rytidosperma davyi - Merxmuellera davyi Rytidosperma distichum - Tenaxia disticha Rytidosperma grandiflorum - Merxmuellera grandiflora Rytidosperma subulatum - Tenaxia subulata
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