MARISCUS Vahl
MONANDRUS Vorster
Perennial, less often annual, herbs, tufted or with rhizomes or stolons, sometimes producing tubers or bulbs. Culms usually triangular. Leaves usually at or near the base of the culm, the culm base sometimes swollen, 3-ranked, linear and grass-like, the lower ones often scale-like. Inflorescence terminal, often a subumbel-like anthela or congested into a dense head; subtended by leaf-like involucral bracts. Spikelets 1-many-flowered. Glumes distichous. Perianth 0. Stamens 1-3. Stigmas 2-3, if 2, then nutlet dorsally flattened. Fruit a nutlet, usually dorsally flattened. Worldwide: c. 300 species in warm and tropical countries Burundi: 45 taxa. |
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| Species | Content | |
| ajax C.B.Clarke | ||
| alopecuroides Rottb. | Image | |
| amabilis Vahl | Description, Image | |
| angolensis Boeckeler | Description, Image | |
| articulatus L. | Description, Image | |
| aterrimus Steud. | ||
| corymbosus Rottb. | ||
| cuspidatus Kunth | ||
| cyperoides (L.) Kuntze | Description, Image | |
| denudatus L.f. | Description, Image | |
| derreilema Steud. | ||
| dichrostachyus Hochst. ex A.Rich. | ||
| difformis L. | Description, Image | |
| digitatus Roxb. | ||
| digitatus Roxb. subsp. auricomus (Sieber ex Spreng.) Kük. | Description, Image | |
| dilatatus Schumach. | ||
| dives Delile | ||
| esculentus L. | Description, Image | |
| fischerianus A. Rich. | ||
| foliaceus C.B.Clarke | ||
| glaucophyllus Boeckeler | ||
| haspan L. | ||
| kipasensis Cherm. | ||
| laevigatus L. | Description, Image | |
| latifolius Poir. | ||
| laxus Lam. subsp. buchholzii (Boeckeler) Lye | ||
| laxus Lam. subsp. laxus | ||
| longus L.[Agg] | ||
| maculatus Boeckeler | ||
| margaritaceus Vahl | Image | |
| nduru Cherm. | Description, Image | |
| niveus Retz.[Agg] | ||
| papyrus L. | Description, Image | |
| platycaulis Baker | ||
| pustulatus Vahl | ||
| reduncus Hochst. ex Boeckeler | ||
| renschii Boeck. | Description, Image | |
| rigidifolius Steud. | ||
| rotundus L. | Description, Image | |
| rubicundus Vahl | ||
| sphacelatus Rottb. | ||
| tenax Boeckeler | ||
| tenuiculmis Boeckeler | ||
| tenuispica Steud. | ||
| vestitus Hochst. ex C. Krauss |