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Paspalum Linn., Syst. Nat., ed. 10, 2:855. 1759. Blatter & McCann, Bombay Grasses 136. 1935: Bor. Fl. Assam 5:250. 1940; Sultan & Stewart, Grasses W. Pak. 1:36. 1958; Bor, Grasses Burma Ceyl. Ind. Pak. 334. 1960; Bor in Towns., Guest & Al-Rawi, Fl. Iraq 9:490. 1968; Bor in Rech. f., Fl. Iran. 70:493. 1970; Tzvelev, Poaceae URSS 667. 1976; Clayton in Tutin et al., Fl. Fur. 5:263. 1980.
Annuals or perennials. Leaf-blades flat, linear to narrowly lanceolate; ligule short, membranous. Inflorescence composed of racemes, these digitate or borne upon an elongated central axis, rarely solitary; rhachis flat, narrowly or broadly winged, bearing solitary or paired spikelets, their lower glume abaxial. Spikelets orbicular to oblong, mostly plano-convex; lower glume suppressed, rarely represented by a minute scale; upper glume membranous, as long as the spikelet, rarely shorter or absent; lower floret barren, without a palea, its lemma resembling the upper glume; upper lemma ± crustaceous, usually obtuse, clasping only the edges of the palea. Caryopsis plano-convex.
A genus of about 250 species, throughout the tropics but mainly in the New World. Represented in Pakistan by 3 species, one of them introduced.
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Spikelets with a ciliate fringe from the margins of the upper glume |
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Paspalum dilatatum |
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Spikelets glabrous or minutely pubescent, without a ciliate fringe |
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Spikelets ovate; upper glume herbaceous, appressed puberulent |
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Paspalum paspalodes |
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Spikelets broadly-elliptic, obovate or suborbicular; upper glume papery, glabrous |
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Paspalum scrobiculatum |
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