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| Status: | Native |
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Stem exceeding 4 1/2 ft. long, stout, at the top triquetrous. Leaves 3 ft. by 1/2– 3/4 in., 3-nerved. Umbel decompound, rays 9 in. long; secondary rays slender, flexuose, with innumerable brown spikes. Spikelets 2–5 together, 1/4 by 1/16 in., compressed, delicate, 10–12-flowered, comose from the red-brown stigmas. Glumes ovate, apiculate, hardly mucronate. Style short; branches 3, linear, long. Nut scarcely 1/2 the length of the glume, ovoid, trigonous. (Description Kew/JSTOR) |
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| Red data list status: | Data deficient |
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