Arthraxon P.Beauv.

• Authority

  Gleason, Henry A. & Cronquist, Arthur J. 1991. Manual of vascular plants of northeastern United States and adjacent Canada. lxxv + 910 pp.

• Family

  Poaceae

• Scientific Name

  Arthraxon P.Beauv.

• Description

  Genus Description - Spikelets usually paired on the rachis of the spike, one member sessile and fully developed, the other pedicellate and usually ± reduced (or even obsolete); normal spikelets alternate and laterally appressed to the articulate rachis, the rachis- joint and spikelet commonly falling as a unit; normal spikelet with firm glumes, 2 very thin, membranous lemmas, and no palea, the lower lemma empty and awnless, the upper subtending a perfect fl and usually awned from near the base; low, decumbent or creeping grasses with lanceolate or lance-ovate lvs cordate-clasping at base, and with 2–many simple or often branched, usually subdigitately arranged spikes. 7, warm Old World.