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L. Watson, T.D. Macfarlane, and M.J. Dallwitz

### Renvoizea Zuloaga & Morrone

~ Panicum Sect Lorea

Type species: R. trinii (Kunth) Zuloaga & Morrone.

Habit, vegetative morphology. Perennial; forming robust tussocks, rhizomatous and caespitose. Leaves mostly basal. Leaf blades pungent, linear to lanceolate; narrow; flat, or rolled. Ligule present, or absent; when present, a fringed membrane, or a fringe of hairs.

Reproductive organization. Plants bisexual, all with bisexual spikelets; with hermaphrodite florets. The spikelets hermaphrodite.

Inflorescence. Inflorescence a false spike, with spikelets on contracted axes, or paniculate; very contracted; spicate.

Female-fertile spikelets. Spikelets elliptic; abaxial; compressed laterally; biconvex; falling with the glumes. Rachilla terminated by a female-fertile floret.

Glumes two; very unequal; (the upper) about equalling the spikelets; long relative to the adjacent lemmas; hairy, or hairless (pilose or glabrous); awnless; somewhat carinate; similar. Lower glume 0.5–0.8 times the length of the upper glume; shorter than the lowest lemma; 3–5 nerved. Upper glume 5(–7) nerved. Spikelets with incomplete florets. The incomplete florets proximal to the female-fertile florets. Spikelets with proximal incomplete florets. The proximal incomplete florets 1; paleate. Palea of the proximal incomplete florets reduced. The proximal incomplete florets male.

Female-fertile florets 1. Lemmas decidedly firmer than the glumes; shiny, smooth; becoming indurated; entire; awnless; hairless; glabrous; non-carinate; having the margins inrolled against the palea; 5(–7) nerved. Palea present; relatively long; awnless, without apical setae.

Fruit, embryo and seedling. Hilum short. Embryo large.

Transverse section of leaf blade, physiology. Supposedly C3; XyMS+. Mesophyll with non-radiate chlorenchyma.

Classification. Watson & Dallwitz (1994): genus not recognised. Soreng et al. (2015): Panicoideae; Panicodae; Paspaleae; Paspalinae. 10 species.

Distribution, phytogeography, ecology. Brazil.

References, etc. Morphological/taxonomic: Sede, S.M., Morrone, O., Giussani, L.M., and Zuloaga, F.O. (2008). Phylogenetic Studies in the Paniceae (Poaceae): a realignment of section Lorea of Panicum. Syst. Bot. 33(2):284–300.

Special comments. Anatomical data wanting.

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Cite this publication as: ‘Watson, L., Macfarlane, T.D., and Dallwitz, M.J. 1992 onwards. The grass genera of the world: descriptions, illustrations, identification, and information retrieval; including synonyms, morphology, anatomy, physiology, phytochemistry, cytology, classification, pathogens, world and local distribution, and references. Version: 15th June 2025. delta-intkey.com’.

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