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13. Bulbostylis Kunth, Enum. 2: 205. (1837); (see Nelmes in Kew Bull. 1950: 210, 1950, and Hooper, Taxon 17: 446, 1968).
[nom. cons.]
Small annuals or perennials, tuft-forming. Stem obtusely angular. Leaves basal, short; sheaths soft, with ciliate mouth margin; ligule 0; blades narrow, thick, incurveded. Inflorescence a multiple spike; glumes spirally arranged. Flowers bisexual; stigmas 3; style constricted from ovary, base bulbous, persistent. Nut obovoid, triangular.
A genus with c. 50 species distributed in Tropical Africa, Asia and Australia, represented in Pakistan by two species.
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Inflorescence a tight group of sessile or subsessile spikes. |
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1 B. barbata |
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Inflorescence with elongated branches, a multiple spike or an anthelodium. |
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2 B. densa |
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