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Gastridium P.Beauv.

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Gastridium P.Beauv., Ess. Agrostogr. 21 (1812)
Gastridium P.Beauv.

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Exotic
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New Zealand
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P.Beauv.
P.Beauv.
1812
21
ICN
Gastridium P.Beauv.
genus
Gastridium

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Gastridium

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Gastridium P.Beauv.

Annuals. Leaf-sheath rounded, slightly keeled above. Ligule membranous. Leaf-blade flat. Culm internodes glabrous. Panicle dense, spike-like, narrow-cylindric, sometimes lobed. Spikelets 1-flowered, laterally compressed, swollen and globular at base; disarticulation above glumes; rachilla very shortly prolonged. Glumes unequal, swollen, subcoriaceous and shining below, membranous and keeled above, 1-nerved. Lemma « glumes, 5-nerved, broadly elliptic, rounded, truncate, denticulate, with slender dorsal awn from upper ⅓, or awn subapical, or 0. Palea = lemma, 2-nerved. Lodicules 2, glabrous. Stamens 3. Ovary glabrous; styles free. Caryopsis slightly dorsiventrally compressed; embryo small; hilum punctiform; endosperm liquid.

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Gastridium P.Beauv.
Gastridium P.Beauv.
Gastridium P.Beauv.
Gastridium
Gastridium P.Beauv.

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568b0dc7-317d-48de-8e71-1fbf6bfc7f44
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1 January 2000
22 January 2014
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