Andropogon
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Authority
Mori, S. A., et al. 1997. Guide to the vascular plants of central French Guiana: Part 1. Pteridophytes, gymnosperms, and monocotyledons. Mem. New York Bot. Gard. 76: 1-422.
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Family
Poaceae
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Scientific Name
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Description
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Genus Description - Coarse perennials. Inflorescences numerous from middle and upper nodes, each of 1-several erect to divergent racemes; spikelets awnless, paired, one sessile and one pedicellate; rachis internodes ciliate, disarticulating attached at base to persistent sessile spikelet and pedicellate spikelet, or the latter falling first. Sessile spikelet bisexual or pistillate; glumes subequal, about as long as spikelet, membranous, the lower flat to sulcate on back, the upper strongly keeled; florets hyaline, shorter than spikelet, the lower sterile and lacking a palea, the upper with often well-developed palea. Pedicellate spikelet present or absent.