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Urochloa P.Beauv.

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Urochloa P.Beauv., Ess. Agrostogr. 52 (1812)
Urochloa P.Beauv.

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Exotic
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New Zealand
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P.Beauv.
P.Beauv.
1812
52
ICN
Urochloa P.Beauv.
genus
Urochloa

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Urochloa

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Urochloa P.Beauv.

Annuals or perennials. Ligule a membranous shortly ciliate rim. Culm erect or decumbent, simple or sparingly branched. Inflorescence a panicle of racemes along a common rachis; branches appressed or spreading, terminating in a spikelet. Spikelets secund, ± appressed to rachis adaxially or abaxially, terete or dorsiventrally compressed, solitary, paired or clustered, 2-flowered; disarticulation below glumes; lower floret Ø, ♂, sometimes ☿, upper floret ☿. Lower glume nerveless, upper ≈ spikelet, 5-nerved. Lower floret: lemma 5-7-nerved, membranous to chartaceous, muticous; palea present or 0. Upper floret: lemma ≈ lemma of lower floret, chartaceous to cartilaginous, dull, rugose, margins incurved and clasping palea, apex muticous to mucronate; palea 2-nerved, similar to lemma in texture; lodicules 2, cuneate, truncate; stamens 3; ovary apex glabrous, styles free to base, stigmas plumose; caryopsis ovoid to ellipsoid, dorsiventrally compressed, embryo ½-¾ length of caryopsis, hilum subbasal, punctiform, elliptic or linear.

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Urochloa P.Beauv.
Urochloa P.Beauv.
Urochloa P.Beauv.
Urochloa
Urochloa P.Beauv.

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1 January 2000
23 January 2014
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