apices acute, usually slightly lobed or irregularly crenate; paleas usually shorter than or equaling the lemmas, sometimes slightly longer, keels winged
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5-7 mm, glabrous, shiny, with a deep dorsal pit, tapering to a narrow, slightly bifid apex; awns 20-28 mm; anthers 0.5-1 mm. Pedicellate spikelets 2.5-3.5
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beneath the florets or below the glumes. Spikelets 2.5-60 mm, not viviparous, slightly to strongly laterally compressed, with 1-30 florets, proximal florets bisexual
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as the lemmas; lemmas pubescent Gastridium 37 Glumes from slightly shorter than to slightly longer than the lemmas; lemmas glabrous, sometimes scabridulous
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or indurate, 3-5-veined, veins inconspicuous, apices entire, bilobed, or bifid, awned, lemma-awn junction usually conspicuous, awns 0.3-30 cm, not branched
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to scabrous, margins hyaline, apex undifferentiated, acute to obtuse or bifid, margins of outer spathe usually connate basally. Flowers not fragrant, actinomorphic;
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midvein, apices subulate, acute, acuminate, or obtuse, notched, minutely bifid, or toothed, teeth shorter than 1 mm, apices sometimes split and the teeth
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mucronate or awned; lower glumes sometimes rudimentary or absent, occasionally bifid; upper glumes shorter than to longer than the florets; calluses poorly developed
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styles 2. Fruiting structures: style bases at maturity forming characteristic bifid rostrum (“beak”) at apex of achenes [concealed by wing in some species],
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nucellus scant; styles [1–] 4 (–5) [–8], variously connate [distinct], often bifid apically; stigmas [1–] 4 (–5) [–8], apical. Fruits usually baccate [rarely
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as the lemma bodies, 2-veined, veins scabrous, apices obtuse, sometimes bifid; lodicules 2, glabrous or with a few hairs; anthers 3, their size depending
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pale, or purplish, veins antrorsely scabrous, apices truncate, bilobed, or bifid, often mucronate; lowest lemmas cartilaginous, light to dark-brown, scabridulous
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linear-lanceolate, obscurely 3-5-veined, keeled, sometimes slightly rounded at the base, apices entire or minutely bifid, unawned or awned, awns 0.2-0.5 mm, subterminal;
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smooth or scabridulous, sometimes not prolonged. Glumes from slightly shorter than to slightly longer than the floret, 1-veined or 3-veined, margins hyaline
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lemma in each spikelet (3) 6-20 mm; paleas usually slightly longer than the lemmas, apices minutely bifid, teeth 0.2-0.5 mm; anthers 0.7-3 mm. Caryopses 3
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glumes slightly longer, usually glabrous, 5-veined, truncate; lower florets reduced to hyaline lemmas; upper florets bisexual, lemmas hyaline, bifid, awned
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Greek dichelos, split hoof, and stemma, crown or garland, alluding to the bifid perianth appendages that form a corona Synonyms: Brevoortia Alph. Wood Brodiaea
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in center, sometimes with darker markings at base, subequal, outer whorl slightly larger than inner, 16–25 × 6–9 mm; perianth-tube 12–15 mm; filaments 15–22
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lowermost lemma in each spikelet 0.3-9 mm; paleas slightly shorter than the lemmas, apices entire or minutely bifid, teeth shorter than 0.2 mm; anthers 0.3-1.5
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and pedicels stiff, straight, smooth and glabrous or almost so, sometimes slightly scabridulous, scabrules/hairs to 0.1 mm. Spikelets dimorphic, usually paired
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