Olyra
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Authority
Hitchcock, Albert S. 1927. The grasses of Ecuador, Peru, and Bolivia. Contr. U. S. Natl. Herb. 24: i-xx, 291-556.
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Family
Poaceae
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Scientific Name
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Description
Description - Plants monoecious; inflorescence paniculate; pistillate spikelets borne on the ends of the branches of loose terminal panicles, the smaller staminate spikelets pedicellate below the pistillate ones, sometimes the upper branches all pistillate and the lower ones all staminate; pistillate spikelets rather large; first glume wanting ; second glume and sterile lemma herbaceous, often caudate-acuminate; fruit bony-indurate ; staminate spikelets readily deciduous; glumes and sterile lemma wanting, the lemma and palea membranaceous.