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Pogonarthria

Description

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Annuals or perennials. Inflorescence composed of 1 or more deciduous racemes arranged along an axis. Spikelets with several flowers, laterally flattened. Glumes 1-nerved, membranous, unequal. Lemmas 3-nerved, keeled, acuminate to shortly awned.

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bibliographic citation: Hyde, M.A., Wursten, B.T. and Ballings, P. (2002-2014). Pogonarthria Flora of Zimbabwe website. Accessed 28 August 2014 at http://www.zimbabweflora.co.zw/speciesdata/genus.php?genus_id=166
author: Mark Hyde
author: Bart Wursten
author: Petra Ballings

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Pogonarthria

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Pogonarthria is a genus of African plants in the grass family.^[1]^[2]

Species^[3]^[4]^[5]

Pogonarthria fleckii (Hack.) Hack. - Angola, Mozambique, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Botswana, Namibia
Pogonarthria leiarthra Hack. - Namibia
Pogonarthria refracta Launert - Zambia
Pogonarthria squarrosa (Roem. & Schult.) Pilg. - Africa from Ivory Coast to South Africa and Madagascar; naturalized in Arizona (Cochise and Pima Counties)^[6]^[7]

Formerly included^[3]

see Desmostachya Eragrostis

Pogonarthria bipinnata - Desmostachya bipinnata
Pogonarthria brainii - Eragrostis brainii

References

^ Stapf, Otto in Harvey, William Henry. 1898. Flora capensis :being a systematic description of the plants of the Cape colony, Caffraria, & Port Natal (and neighbouring territories) 7: 316 in English
^ Grassbase - The World Online Grass Flora
^ ^a ^b Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
^ The Plant List search for Pogonarthria
^ Launert, E. 1966. A brief survey of the genus Pogonarthria. Senckenbergiana Biologica 47: 303–307
^ Biota of North America Program 22013 county distribution map
^ Sanbi Red List of South African Plants

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Pogonarthria: Brief Summary

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Pogonarthria is a genus of African plants in the grass family.

Species Pogonarthria fleckii (Hack.) Hack. - Angola, Mozambique, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Botswana, Namibia Pogonarthria leiarthra Hack. - Namibia Pogonarthria refracta Launert - Zambia Pogonarthria squarrosa (Roem. & Schult.) Pilg. - Africa from Ivory Coast to South Africa and Madagascar; naturalized in Arizona (Cochise and Pima Counties) Formerly included

see Desmostachya Eragrostis

Pogonarthria bipinnata - Desmostachya bipinnata Pogonarthria brainii - Eragrostis brainii

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