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Lophacme

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Perennials. Inflorescence of subdigitate racemes on a common axis. Spikelets 3-7-flowered, strongly laterally flattened, disarticulating above the glumes and between the lowermost florets. Lowermost 1-3 florets fertile, the upper sterile and progressively reduced to a tuft of awns. Glumes slightly unequal, linear, 1-nerved; lower shorter than or slightly exceeding the lowest lemma; upper exceeding the florets. Fertile lemmas 3-nerved, acutely 2-lobed, with an awn from between the lobes. Sterile lemmas usually not lobed, tapering to the awn.
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Hyde, M.A., Wursten, B.T. and Ballings, P. (2002-2014). Lophacme Flora of Zimbabwe website. Accessed 28 August 2014 at http://www.zimbabweflora.co.zw/speciesdata/genus.php?genus_id=161
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Lophacme

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Lophacme is a genus of African plants in the grass family.[3][4]

Species[5][6]
formerly included[5]

see Enteropogon

References

  1. ^ This genus was first named in Flora Capensis; being a systematic description of the plants of the Cape Colony, Caffraria, & port Natal. London, 7(2): 316. 1898 "Plant Name Details for Genus Lophacme". IPNI. Retrieved April 28, 2011.
  2. ^ The type species for Lophacme (L. digitata) was originally published in Hooker's Icones Plantarum; or Figures, with brief Descriptive Characters and Remarks of New or Rare Plants 27: plate 2611. 1899 "Plant Name Details for Lophacme digitata Stapf". IPNI. Retrieved April 28, 2011. Notes: Afr. austr
  3. ^ Stapf, Otto. 1898. Flora Capensis 7(2): 316 in English
  4. ^ Tropicos, Lophacme Stapf
  5. ^ a b Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
  6. ^ The Plant List search for Lophacme
  7. ^ Sanbi Red List of South African Plants, Lophacme digitata Stapf

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Lophacme: Brief Summary

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Lophacme is a genus of African plants in the grass family.

Species Lophacme digitata Stapf - Zambia, Zimbabwe, Angola, Free State, Limpopo, Gauteng, Mpumalanga, Free State, KwaZulu-Natal Lophacme parva Renvoize & Clayton - Zambia formerly included

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Lophacme incompleta - Enteropogon dolichostachyus
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