Description
provided by Flora of Zimbabwe
Annuals or (in ours) perennials. Inflorescence terminal or axillary, of paired (occasionally single or digitate) racemes; racemes interlocked back to back, thereby simulating a single raceme, lacking homogamous pairs and usually exserted, but sometimes enclosed within, a spatheole; internodes and pedicels clavate to inflated, usually exposed on the back of the raceme as a U- or V-shaped segment. Sessile spikelet dorsally flattened;
callus obtuse, inserted in the concave top of the internode; lower glume chartaceous to coriaceous, convex (concave in I. afrum), 2-keeled or rounded on the back, entire or 2-lobed; upper glume with or without an awn; lower floret male; upper lemma 2-fid with a glabrous awn
from the sinus.
Similar in appearance to Andropogon, Ischaemum may technically be
separated by the male lower floret and the U-shaped appearance of
the internode and pedicel.
- license
- cc-by-nc
- copyright
- Mark Hyde, Bart Wursten and Petra Ballings
- bibliographic citation
- Hyde, M.A., Wursten, B.T. and Ballings, P. (2002-2014). Ischaemum Flora of Zimbabwe website. Accessed 28 August 2014 at http://www.zimbabweflora.co.zw/speciesdata/genus.php?genus_id=237
- author
- Mark Hyde
- author
- Bart Wursten
- author
- Petra Ballings