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Perennials. Leaf lamina rigid and pungent. Inflorescence dense and spike-like, composed of short crowded ± secund racemes. Spikelets several-flowered, slightly laterally flattened, disarticulating above the glumes and between the florets. Glumes 1-nerved, shorter than the lemmas, scarious. Lemmas 3-nerved, silky-villous along the lateral nerves, minutely 2-toothed at the apex and mucronate.
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Mark Hyde, Bart Wursten and Petra Ballings
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Hyde, M.A., Wursten, B.T. and Ballings, P. (2002-2014). Odyssea Flora of Zimbabwe website. Accessed 28 August 2014 at http://www.zimbabweflora.co.zw/speciesdata/genus.php?genus_id=159
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Odyssea

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Odyssea is a genus of African and Arabian plants in the grass family.[1][2]

The genus is named after the ancient Greek tale "The Odyssey," in allusion to the long journey the type species has been taken through nine genera before settling in this one.[1]

Species[3][4]
formerly included[3]

see Psilolemma

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Odyssea: Brief Summary

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Odyssea is a genus of African and Arabian plants in the grass family.

The genus is named after the ancient Greek tale "The Odyssey," in allusion to the long journey the type species has been taken through nine genera before settling in this one.

Species Odyssea mucronata (Forssk.) Stapf - Eritrea, Somalia, Yemen, possibly Saudi Arabia Odyssea paucinervis (Nees) Stapf - Zaire, Somalia, Tanzania, Angola, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Botswana, Cape Province, Namibia, Limpopo, Mpumalanga formerly included

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Odyssea jaegeri - Psilolemma jaegeri
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