Hainardia
Source:
SSA
Synonym(s):
Monerma of authors, a superfluous name for Lepturus R.Br.; Chippindall: 73 (1955).
Description:
Annual, tufted. Leaf blade expanded or rolled; ligule an unfringed membrane. Inflorescence a single cylindrical spike on a hard, articulated rachis, rachis fragile; spikelets edgeways on, alternating and sunk into rachis but longer than internodes, solitary. Spikelet dorsiventrally compressed, falling with glumes; lower glume suppressed except on terminal spikelets, upper glume 5-8 mm long, as long as spikelet, abaxial, 3-7(9)-nerved, glabrous, awnless. Floret 1, bisexual; lemma less firm than glumes, membranous, glabrous, 3-nerved, laterals short, awnless; palea present. Lodicules 2, membranous, glabrous. Stamens 1-3. Ovary glabrous. Caryopsis oblong, somewhat dorsally compressed with an appendage at apex. x= 13 (polyploidy).
Distribution:
Species 1, Mediterranean region: * Hainardia cylindrica (Willd.) Greuter, naturalised in coastal districts of the southern and Eastern Cape regions.