G.626. Elionurus Kunth ex Willd.

Description of the genus

Lemon-scented perennials (in ours). Inflorescence a single raceme, terminal or axillary and sometimes gathered into a false panicle. Racemes flexuous; internodes columnar to subclavate, strongly oblique at the summit, neither crater-like nor scarious-rimmed. Sessile spikelet: callus often large; lower glume laterally 2-keeled, the keels ciliately fringed and often with an oil-streak on the inner side, not ridged, usually 2-fid; upper glume awnless; lower floret reduced to a hyaline lemma; upper lemma entire and awnless. Pedicellate spikelet well-developed, awnless or shortly aristate.

Worldwide: 15 species in tropical Africa, America and Australia

Botswana: 2 taxa.

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SpeciesFZ divisionsContent
muticus (Spreng.) KuntzeN,SEDescription, Image
tripsacoides Willd.NDescription

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Flora of Caprivi: Elionurus
Flora of Caprivi: cultivated Elionurus
Flora of Malawi: Elionurus
Flora of Mozambique: Elionurus
Flora of Zambia: Elionurus
Flora of Zimbabwe: Elionurus

External websites:

African Plants: A Photo Guide (Senckenberg): Elionurus
BHL (Biodiversity Heritage Library): Elionurus
EOL (Encyclopedia of Life): Elionurus
GBIF (Global Biodiversity Information Facility): Elionurus
Google: Web - Images - Scholar
iNaturalist: Elionurus
IPNI (International Plant Names Index): Elionurus
JSTOR Plant Science: Elionurus
Mansfeld World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops: Elionurus
Plants of the World Online: Elionurus
Tropicos: Elionurus
Wikipedia: Elionurus

Copyright: Mark Hyde, Bart Wursten, Petra Ballings and Meg Coates Palgrave, 2014-24

Hyde, M.A., Wursten, B.T., Ballings, P. & Coates Palgrave, M. (2024). Flora of Botswana: Genus page: Elionurus.
https://www.botswanaflora.com/speciesdata/genus.php?genus_id=254, retrieved 28 March 2024

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