Description
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Annual or perennial herbs. Perennials with a woody rhizome. Culms with leaves and nodes throughout. Leaves usually flat. Ligule present, tubular.
Inflorescence paniculate, consisting of 1-several clusters of
spikelets or compound corymbs of spikelets, the inflorescence
branches usually hairy. Spikelets of numerous overlapping
glumes, the 2 lowest sterile, the upper with bisexual flowers.
Glumes spirally arranged, sometimes 5-ranked,
pubescent with the midrib excurrent into a mucro. Perianth segments 3 or 6, sometimes 0, sometimes in 2 whorls of differing type. Stamens 2-3. Stigmas 3. Nutlet sessile, triangular, obovoid.
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- Hyde, M.A., Wursten, B.T. and Ballings, P. (2002-2014). Fuirena Flora of Zimbabwe website. Accessed 28 August 2014 at http://www.zimbabweflora.co.zw/speciesdata/genus.php?genus_id=275
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- Mark Hyde
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- Bart Wursten
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- Petra Ballings
Fuirena: Brief Summary
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Fuirena, called umbrella sedges or umbrella grasses, are a genus of flowering plants in the sedge family (Cyperaceae), with a worldwide distribution, chiefly in the tropics and temperate zones. They are named for Danish physician and early botanist Georg Fuiren (Jorgen Furenius), 1581–1628.
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