Halopyrum

Stapf
Description: 
Tough, stoloniferous perennials; stolons rooting to form dense tussocks; culms rigid, woody, branching to form fascicles at nodes. Leaf blades narrowly linear to setaceous, flat or involute, stiff, glaucous. Inflorescence of short racemes scattered along and appressed to an elongated central axis. Spikelets several-flowered, shortly pedicelled, laterally compressed, disarticulating above glumes and between florets; callus conspicuously barbate with hairs
Distribution: 
Monotypic: Halopyrum mucronatum (L.) Stapf, shores of Indian Ocean and Red Sea; sthn trop. Afr.: Mozambique.
Source: 
SSTA
Classification: 
POACEAE

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