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Arundo Linn., Sp. Pl. 1:81. 1753. Boiss., Fl. Or. 5:564. 1814; Hook.f., Fl. Brit. Ind. 7:302. 1896; Blatter & McCann, Bombay Grasses 204. 1935; Bor, Fl. Assam 5: 88. 1940; Sultan & Stewart, Grasses W. Pak. 2:221. 1959; Bor, Grasses Burma Ceyl. Ind. Pak. 413. 1960; Bor in Towns., Guest & Al-Rawi, Fl. Iraq 9:370. 1968; Bor in Rech. f., Fl. Iran. 70:351. 1970; Tzvelev, Poaceae URSS 604. 1976; Tutin in Tutin et al., Fl. Eur. 5: 252. 1980.
Rhizomatous perennials, with very tall culms. Leaf-blades broad and flat; ligule a short scarious membrane. Panicles large, dense, profusely branched, silkily hairy, glabrous at the bases of the lowest branches. Spikelets few-flowered, the florets all fertile or the upper ± reduced; rhachilla glabrous; glumes 3-5-nerved; lemma 5-9-nerved, bifid with a short awn in the sinus, with 3 nerves ± percurrent or excurrent, the rest short, covered all over the back below the middle with long soft hairs; palea 2-keeled, densely ciliate on the keels; stamens 3.
A genus of 12 species in tropical and temperate regions; 1 species occurs in Pakistan.
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