471.010 Bulbostylis Kunth

Description of the genus

Annual or perennial herbs. Leaves usually very narrow and almost filiform, usually with tufts of hairs at the mouth of the leaf sheath. Inflorescence an anthela. Glumes spirally arranged; the lowest 1-2 may be empty, the others bisexual. Perianth 0. Stamens 2-3; stigmas 2-3, the base of the style persisting as a distinct rim or knob. Nutlet biconvex if stigmas 2, trigonous if stigmas 3. Nutlet smooth, tuberculate or, more often, transversely wrinkled.

Burundi: 29 taxa.

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Species		Content
abortiva (Steud.) C.B. Clarke		Description, Image
atrosanguinea (Boeck.) C.B. Clarke
barbata (Rottb.) C.B.Clarke
boeckeleriana (Schweinf.) Beetle		Description, Image
buchananii C.B. Clarke		Description, Image
cardiocarpoides Cherm.
clarkeana Hutch. ex M. Bodard		Description, Image
coleotricha (Hochst. ex A.Rich.) C.B.Clarke
densa (Wall.) Hand.-Mazz.
densa (Wall.) Hand.-Mazz. subsp. afromontana Lye) R.W.Haines		Description, Image
filamentosa (Vahl) C.B. Clarke		Description, Image
hensii (C.B.Clarke) R.W.Haines
hispidula (Vahl) R.W. Haines		Description, Image
hispidula (Vahl) R.W.Haines subsp. brachyphylla (Cherm.) R.W.Haines
hispidula (Vahl) R.W.Haines subsp. hispidula
lineolata Goetgh.
longiradiata Goetgh.
macra (Ridl.) C.B. Clarke		Description, Image
microelegans (Lye) R.W.Haines
nemoides Goetgh.
oritrephes (Ridl.) C.B. Clarke		Description, Image
pilosa (Willd.) Cherm.		Description, Image
pusilla (Hochst. ex A. Rich.) C.B. Clarke
pusilla (A.Rich.) C.B.Clarke subsp. congolensis (De Wild.) R.W. Haines		Description, Image
scabricaulis Cherm.
scleropus C.B.Clarke
tanzaniae (Lye) R.W.Haines
ugandensis (Lye) R.W.Haines
viridecarinata (De Wild.) Goetgh.

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