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joint below the 3-awned rudimentary floret adnate to the lower part 
of the keel; staminate spikelets awnless, imbricate in short spikes, 
these racemose. Low stoloniferous perennial with flat blades and 
small spikes. 
FIGURE 89.—Opizia stolonifera, X 14 (Pringle 4566). 
1. Opizia stolonifera Presl, Rel. Haenk. 1: 293. pl. 41. f. 1. 1830. 
Mexico. 
Forming dense mats, the shoots on the stolons mostly fascicled, the 
slender flowering culms 5 to 10 cm tall; blades flat, 1 to 2 mm wide; 
pistillate spikes short-exserted, bristly with awns about 5 mm long; 
staminate spikes 1 to 3, long-exserted, 1 to 1.5 em long (fig. 89). 
