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1-1.5 mm long, rigid. Male flowers sessile, 6-12 per spikelet, upper flowers usually 
sterile; tepals 6, broadly lanceolate, 1-1.3 mm long; stamens 3, exserted. Female spikelets 
solitary, sessile, terminal or axillary and well-spaced, 0.5-2 cm apart, elongate, 5-8 mm 
long; bracts and glumes identical to those of male plant. Female flowers sessile, 
1-2 fertile per spikelet, uniovulate; style single 2-3 mm long, with an exserted, often 
coiled, white, flattened, papillate stigma. Fruit an elongate nut; seeds one per fruit. 
Fig. 2. Harperia ferruginipes K. A. Meney & J. S. Pate; A, female culm (x 0.6); B, male culm (x 0.6); 
C, rhizome (x 0.5); D, culm sheath (x 3.5); E, female spikelet (x 5); F, female flower (x 14); G, male 
spikelet (x 5); H, male flower (x 14). 
