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XII. Subfamily Arundinoideae Burmeist. (1837)

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Flowering Plants. Monocots

Part of the book series: The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants ((FAMILIES GENERA,volume 13))

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Perennials; caespitose, rhizomatous, or stoloniferous, tall and reed-like to minute and moss-like. Ligule membranous or a fringe of hairs. Inflorescence branches branched. Spikelets laterally compressed. Callus of flower pubescent. Style branches 2, generally free. Hilum short or long-linear. Epiblast absent, scutellar cleft present, mesocotyl internode elongated, embryonic leaf margins meeting or overlapping. Leaf epidermal papillae absent.

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Kellogg, E.A. (2015). XII. Subfamily Arundinoideae Burmeist. (1837). In: Flowering Plants. Monocots. The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants, vol 13. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-15332-2_26

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