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Leersia Sw., Prodr. Veg. Ind. Occ. 21. 1788. Boiss., Fl. Or. 5: 468. 1884; Hook. f., Fl. Brit. Ind. 7:94. 1896; Prodoehl in Bot. Arch. 1:213. 1922; Bor, Fl. Assam 5:173. 1940; Bor, Grasses Burma Ceyl. Ind. Pak. 599. 1960; Launert in Senckenburg. biol. 46: 129. 1965; Pyrah in Iowa St. J. Sci. 44 (2): 215-270. 1969; Bor in Rech. f., Fl. Iran. 70: 5. 1970; Tzvelev, Poaceae URSS 99. 1976; Tutin in Tutin et al., Fl. Eur. 5:260. 1980; nom. conserv..
Homalocenchrus Mieg.Pseudoryza Griff.
Mostly perennials with creeping rhizomes; culms slender, often geniculate and ascending, up to ± 60 cm high. Leaf-blades flat or convolute, often harshly scabrid on the margins; ligule membranous. Panicle spreading, ovate or oblong, the spikelets shortly pedicelled and imbricate. Spikelets 1-flowered, strongly laterally compressed, falling entire from the pedicel; glumes absent or represented by an obscure frill at the pedicel-tip; lemma chartaceous, boat-shaped, usually 5-nerved, typically spinulose scabrid, muticous, rarely subulate-caudate or awned; palea resembling the lemma, but narrower and usually 3 -nerved; stamens (1-3-)6; stigmas 2.
A genus of about 20 species; marsh plants of both hemispheres, mainly tropical but with several temperate species; 1 species occurs in Pakistan.
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