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Description

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Perennials. Inflorescence a solitary raceme enclosed by a boat-shaped reddish spatheole and grouped into a loose compound panicle; raceme dense without homogamous pairs. Sessile spikelets dorsally flattened; callus obtuse; lower glume not grooved; upper glume awned; lower floret reduced to a hyaline lemma; upper floret 2-lobed with glabrous awn. Pedicellate spikelets resembling the sessile but awnless.

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bibliographic citation: Hyde, M.A., Wursten, B.T. and Ballings, P. (2002-2014). Monocymbium Flora of Zimbabwe website. Accessed 28 August 2014 at http://www.zimbabweflora.co.zw/speciesdata/genus.php?genus_id=249
author: Mark Hyde
author: Bart Wursten
author: Petra Ballings

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Monocymbium

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Monocymbium is a genus of African plants in the grass family.^[2]^[3]^[4]^[5]

Species^[6]^[7]

Monocymbium ceresiiforme (Nees) Stapf - widespread in sub-Saharan Africa from Liberia to Ethiopia to Cape Province
Monocymbium deightonii C.E.Hubb. - Guinea, Sierra Leone, Ivory Coast, Liberia
Monocymbium lanceolatum C.E.Hubb. - Guinea, Sierra Leone

References

^ Tropicos, Monocymbium Stapf
^ Otto Stapf. 1917. Flora of Tropical Africa 9(1): 12
^ Otto Stapf. 1919. Flora of Tropical Africa 9: 386
^ Nees von Esenbeck, Christian Gottfried Daniel 1841. Florae Africae Australioris Illustrationes Monographicae 109-110 in Latin, as Andropogon ceresiaeformis
^ "Grassbase - The World Online Grass Flora". Archived from the original on 2009-09-04. Retrieved 2009-10-10.
^ Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
^ The Plant List search for Monocymbium

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Monocymbium: Brief Summary

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

Species Monocymbium ceresiiforme (Nees) Stapf - widespread in sub-Saharan Africa from Liberia to Ethiopia to Cape Province Monocymbium deightonii C.E.Hubb. - Guinea, Sierra Leone, Ivory Coast, Liberia Monocymbium lanceolatum C.E.Hubb. - Guinea, Sierra Leone

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