Psilolemma
| Psilolemma | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Monocots |
| Clade: | Commelinids |
| Order: | Poales |
| Family: | Poaceae |
| Subfamily: | Chloridoideae |
| Tribe: | Zoysieae |
| Subtribe: | Sporobolinae |
| Genus: | Psilolemma S.M.Phillips |
| Species: | P. jaegeri
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| Binomial name | |
| Psilolemma jaegeri (Pilg.) S.M.Phillips
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| Synonyms[1] | |
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Psilolemma is a genus of plants in the grass family.[2][3][4] The only known species is Psilolemma jaegeri, native to the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania.[1][5]
A wiry, somewhat spiny perennial mat-grass 7–35 cm tall with long, tough, thin, wide-spreading stolons and pungent-smelling leaves. Glaucous or yellowish shoots of numerous bristly leaves form dense tufts at the stolon nodes. Stems are leafy, slender, with bulbous bases. Leaf-blades are stiff and 0.5–7 cm. long, 1.5–2 mm. wide, with sheaths that usually overlap and 0.3–0.75 mm. long ligules. Flowering clusters are narrow and 3.5–12 cm. long.[6]
References[edit]
- ^ a b Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant families
- ^ Phillips, Sylvia Mabel. 1974. Kew Bulletin 29(2): 267
- ^ Tropicos, Psilolemma S.M. Phillips
- ^ Grassbase - The World Online Grass Flora
- ^ Clayton, W.D., Phillips, S.M., Renvoize, S.A. (1974). Gramineae. Flora of Tropical East Africa 2: 177-449.
- ^ "Psilolemma jaegeri in Global Plants".