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Perennials. Inflorescence an open, contracted or spike-like panicle. Spikelets brown, occurring singly or in pairs, not in close triads. Lower lemma 3-nerved. Callus oblong to linear, truncate, 2-toothed or obliquely pungent. Upper lemma 2-dentate, glabrous or hairy, but without hair-tufts, with a deciduous awn from the sinus.
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Hyde, M.A., Wursten, B.T. and Ballings, P. (2002-2014). Loudetia Flora of Zimbabwe website. Accessed 28 August 2014 at http://www.zimbabweflora.co.zw/speciesdata/genus.php?genus_id=221
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Loudetia

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Loudetia is a genus of African, Arabian, and South American plants in the grass family.[1][2][3][4][5]

Species[6][7]
formerly included[6]

several species now considered better suited to other genera: Danthoniopsis Loudetiopsis Trichopteryx Tristachya

References

  1. ^ a b Tropicos, Loudetia Hochst. ex Steud.
  2. ^ Steudel, Ernst Gottlieb von. 1854. Synopsis Plantarum Glumacearum 1: 238 in Latin
  3. ^ Phipps, J. B. 1966. Studies in the Arundinelleae, III. Check-list and key to the genera. Kirkia 5: 235–258.
  4. ^ Phillips, S. 1995. Poaceae (Gramineae). Flora of Ethiopia 7: i–xx, 1–420.
  5. ^ Clayton, W. D. 1967. Studies in the Gramineae: XV. Arundinelleae. Kew Bull. 21(1): 119–124
  6. ^ a b Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
  7. ^ The Plant List search for Loudetia

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Loudetia: Brief Summary

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Loudetia is a genus of African, Arabian, and South American plants in the grass family.

Species Loudetia angolensis - Angola Loudetia annua - tropical Africa Loudetia arundinacea - tropical Africa Loudetia cerata - Chad, Central African Republic Loudetia coarctata - tropical Africa Loudetia cuanzensis - Angola Loudetia demeusei - Congo Republic, Zaïre Loudetia densispica - central + southern Africa Loudetia echinulata - Central African Rep Loudetia esculenta - Sudan Loudetia filifolia - Madagascar, Eswatini, Mpumalanga Loudetia flammida - tropical Africa, South America Loudetia flavida - Oman, tropical + southern Africa Loudetia furtiva - Cameroon Loudetia hordeiformis - tropical Africa Loudetia jaegeriana - Sierra Leone Loudetia kagerensis - tropical Africa Loudetia lanata - southern Africa Loudetia migiurtina - Somalia Loudetia phragmitoides - tropical Africa Loudetia pratii - Central African Rep Loudetia simplex - Madagascar, tropical + southern Africa Loudetia tisserantii - Central African Rep Loudetia togoensis - tropical Africa Loudetia vanderystii - Zaire, Congo Republic, Gabon formerly included

several species now considered better suited to other genera: Danthoniopsis Loudetiopsis Trichopteryx Tristachya

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