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FIGURE 101.—Reynaudia filiformis, X 44 (Hitchcock 495). 
66. REYNAUDIA Kunth, Rév. Gram. 1: 195. pl. 9. 1830 
Spikelets perfect, articulated with the pedicel; glumes keeled, 
strongly nerved, awned from between the lobes of the bifid apex; 
sterile lemma awn-tipped from the bilobed summit; fertile lemma 
thin, nerveless, shorter than the sterile lemma, strongly compressed, 
keeled, the tip of the keel sometimes extended as a minute mucro, 
with 2 pairs of obscure lateral nerves; palea wanting; caryopsis flat, 
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