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Manual of the New Zealand Flora.

Tribe 1. AndropogoneÆ

Tribe 1. AndropogoneÆ.

Spikelets usually 1-flowered, generally in pairs, rarely in threes or solitary, on the rhachis of a spike or branches of a panicle, all hermaphrodite or some of them male, in the latter case so placed that a male spikelet stands by the side of a hermaphrodite one. Flowering glumes hyaline, often awned, usually much smaller than the empty ones.
Panicle long, dense, cylindrical. Spikelets awnless, almost concealed by long silky hairs 1. Imperata.