Biology:Psilolemma

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Short description: Genus of grasses

Psilolemma
Scientific classification edit
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
Binomial name
Psilolemma jaegeri
(Pilg.) S.M.Phillips
Synonyms[1]
  • Diplachne jaegeri Pilg.
  • Odyssea jaegeri (Pilg.) Robyns & Tournay

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

  1. 1.0 1.1 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant families
  2. Phillips, Sylvia Mabel. 1974. Kew Bulletin 29(2): 267
  3. Tropicos, Psilolemma S.M. Phillips
  4. Grassbase - The World Online Grass Flora
  5. Clayton, W.D., Phillips, S.M., Renvoize, S.A. (1974). Gramineae. Flora of Tropical East Africa 2: 177-449.
  6. "Psilolemma jaegeri in Global Plants". https://plants.jstor.org/compilation/Psilolemma.jaegeri. 

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