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Fig. 108. Anthochloa colusana (Davy) Scribner. (JS'eostapfia colusana Davy) . — 

 a, A single spikelet; a', another view of the same; b, a single floret; c, flower- 

 ing glume; d, palea. 



108. ANTHOCHLOA Nees in Lindl. Introd. Nat. Syst. Bot. ed. 2 : 450. 1836. 

 Spikelets several-flowered; flowers hermaphrodite. Empty glumes small or 

 wanting, awnless; flowering glumes thin-membranaceous, very broad and 

 flabelli-form or petal-like, sub-3-5- or many-nerved. Palea narrower than the 

 glume, 3-4-cleft, hyaline. Stamens 3. Styles 2, distinct, short; stigma plumose. 

 Low csespitose grasses with flat leaves and invaginate or shortly exserted 

 capitate or cylindrical panicles. 



Species 3, two in Andes of Bolivia and Peru, one in California. 



