Stiburus

Stapf
Source: 
SSA
Description: 
Perennial, tufted, rhizomatous. Leaf blade setaceous, often overtopping inflorescence; ligule a short, fringed membrane or a fringe of hairs. Inflorescence a spike-like panicle, hairy; spikelets solitary, pedicelled. Spikelet laterally compressed, disarticulating above glumes and between florets; glumes unequal or +/- equal, shorter than spikelet or upper glume longer than spikelet, 1-nerved, acute to acuminate, densely hairy with tubercle-based hairs. Florets 2-6; lower florets bisexual; uppermost floret reduced; lemma similar to glumes, densely hairy with long hairs all over, 3-nerved, acute to acuminate, mucronate; callus minute, hairy; palea shorter than lemma, 2-keeled, membranous. Lodicules 2, minute, glabrous. Ovary glabrous; styles distinct, plumose above. x= 10.
Distribution: 
Species 2, sthn Afr., northern provinces of South Africa, Swaziland, Free State, KwaZulu-Natal and Lesotho.
Classification: 
POACEAE

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