Orthoclada

P.Beauv.
Description: 
Robust perennial grasses with erect or ascending culms and a stout, horizontally creeping rhizome; ligule membranous, truncate, short. Leaf blade with a short pseudopetiole; venation tessellate. Inflorescences loose open panicles. Spikelets pedicelled, laterally compressed, imbricate, awnless, 1
Distribution: 
Species described 2: 1 in tropical America, 1 in trop. Africa: Orthoclada africana C.E.Hubb.; sthn trop. Afr.: Zambia.
Source: 
SSTA
Classification: 
POACEAE

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