Hainardia

HABIT Annual. Culms erect, or geniculately ascending; 10–27 cm long. Ligule an eciliate membrane.

INFLORESCENCE Inflorescence composed of racemes; embraced at base by subtending leaf.

Racemes single; bilateral. Rhachis fragile at the nodes; subcylindrical and excavated. Spikelet packing adaxial. Rhachis internodes linear, or oblong.

Spikelets sunken; solitary. Fertile spikelets sessile.

FERTILE SPIKELETS Spikelets comprising 1 fertile florets; with a barren rhachilla extension. Spikelets lanceolate; dorsally compressed; 5–7 mm long; falling entire; deciduous with accessory branch structures.

GLUMES Glumes one the lower absent or obscure; exceeding apex of florets; firmer than fertile lemma. Upper glume lanceolate; 1–1.4 length of adjacent fertile lemma; coriaceous; without keels; 3 -veined. Upper glume lateral veins ribbed. Upper glume apex acuminate.

FLORETS Fertile lemma lanceolate; membranous; without keel; wingless; 3 -veined. Lemma lateral veins less than two thirds length of lemma. Lemma surface unwrinkled; without grooves; puberulous. Lemma apex acuminate.

FLOWER Anthers 3.

FRUIT Caryopsis with adherent pericarp; ovoid. Embryo 0.2 length of caryopsis.

DISTRIBUTION Europe, or Africa, or Temperate Asia, or Australasia, or North America, or South America.

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