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Descriptions
W.D. Clayton, M. Vorontsova, K.T. Harman & H. Williamson
© Copyright The Board of Trustees, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
Lepturus calcareus
HABIT Perennial; caespitose; clumped loosely. Rootstock evident. Culms 12–24 cm long. Leaf-sheaths keeled. Ligule a ciliolate membrane. Leaf-blades 3–6 cm long; 1–2 mm wide.
INFLORESCENCE Inflorescence composed of racemes.
Racemes 1; single; smoothly terete; bilateral; 1.2–2.5 cm long. Rhachis fragile at the nodes; subcylindrical and excavated. Spikelet packing adaxial; regular; 2 -rowed. Rhachis internodes oblong. Rhachis internode tip transverse; flat.
Spikelets appressed; solitary. Fertile spikelets sessile.
FERTILE SPIKELETS Spikelets comprising 1 fertile florets; with a barren rhachilla extension. Spikelets lanceolate; dorsally compressed; 1.6–1.8 mm long; falling entire; deciduous with accessory branch structures.
GLUMES Glumes one the lower absent or obscure; reaching apex of florets; firmer than fertile lemma. Upper glume ovate; 1.6–1.8 mm long; 1 length of adjacent fertile lemma; coriaceous; without keels; 5–12 -veined. Upper glume apex obtuse.
FLORETS Fertile lemma lanceolate; 1.5 mm long; membranous; without keel; 3 -veined. Lemma apex obtuse. Palea 2 -veined.
FRUIT Caryopsis with free soft pericarp. Hilum punctiform.
DISTRIBUTION Africa: northeast tropical.
NOTES Leptureae. TAC 1997.
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