Daknopholis

Clayton
Description: 
Prostrate stoloniferous annuals forming loose mats; flowering culms ascending. Leaf blades flat; ligule a line of hairs. Inflorescence of digitate, 1-sided racemes. Spikelets 1-flowered with minute rhachilla-extension, strongly laterally compressed, sessile, alternate in 2 rows on a tough axis, disarticulating above glumes. Glumes subequal, thinly membranous, shorter than the floret, 1-nerved, upper one broader than lower one; lemma membranous, keeled, acute, long-awned. Caryopsis narrowly lanceolate, triquetrous.
Distribution: 
Monotypic genus: Daknopholis boivinii (A.Camus) Clayton, western Indian Ocean region; sthn trop. Afr.: Mozambique.
Source: 
SSTA
Classification: 
POACEAE

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