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Chrysopogon Trin., Fund. Agrost. 187. 1820. Boiss., Fl. Or. 5:457. 1884; Blatter & McCann, Bombay Grasses 66. 1935; Bor, Fl. Assam 5:356. 1940; Sultan & Stewart, Grasses W. Pak. 1:100. 1958; Bor, Grasses Burma Ceyl. Ind. Pak. 113. 1960; Bor in Towns., Guest & Al-Rawi, Fl. Iraq 9:512. 1968; Bor in Rech. f., Fl. Iran. 70:530. 1970; Tzvelev, Poaceae URSS 700. 1976; Clayton in Tutin et al., Fl. Eur. 5:265. 1980; nom. Conserve.
Pollinia Spreng.
Perennials, mostly tufted. Leaf-blades linear, often harsh and glaucous; ligule a short membrane or a line of hairs. Inflorescence a terminal panicle with whorls of slender persistent branches bearing terminal racemes; each raceme reduced to a triad of 1 sessile and 2 pedicelled spikelets with linear pedicels (rarely additional pairs of spikelets present), commonly the sessile spikelet pallid or yellowish with fulvous callus beard, and the pedicelled spikelets purple. Sessile spikelets ± laterally compressed; callus oblique, obtuse to pungent; lower glume cartilaginous, rounded on the back, sometimes spinulose on the margins; upper glume often awned; lower floret reduced to a hyaline lemma; upper lemma hyaline, bidentate or entire, with a glabrous or pubescent awn; palea hyaline, small or suppressed; caryopsis narrowly ellipsoid. Pedicelled spikelet male or barren, narrowly lanceolate, awned or awnless.
A genus of 24 species in tropical and warm temperate regions of the Old World, principally in Asia and Australasia, but 1 species in tropical America; 3 species occur in Pakistan.
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