Agnesia
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Agnesia
Zuloaga & Judz.
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| Agnesia lancifolia (Mez) Zuloaga & Judz.
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Olyra lancifolia Mez |
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Agnesia is a genus of herbaceous South American bamboo in the grass family.[2][3]
The only known species is Agnesia lancifolia, native to lowland tropical rainforests of Brazil, Colombia and Peru.[4][5]
Agnesia lancifolia is perennial herb with 7-10 stems per clump, each up to 50 cm tall. Lower leaves lacking blades or with blades less than 5 mm long; upper leaves with blades up to 16 cm long. Each stem has 1-6 racemes at the tips of the culm or from the axils of the upper leaves, pistillate (female) and staminate (male) flowers in different spikelets on the same plant.[5][6]
See also
References
- ↑ Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
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- ↑ Grassbase - The World Online Grass Flora
- ↑ The Plant List
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Zuloaga, F. O. & E. J. Judziewicz. 1993. Agnesia, a new genus of Amazonian herbaceous bamboos (Poaceae: Bambusoideae: Olyreae). Novon 3(3): 306–309.
- ↑ Mez, Carl Christian 1917. Novae species panicearum. Notizblatt des Botanischen Gartens und Museums zu Berlin-Dahlem 7(63): 45-78.
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