''Mibora'', or sandgrass, is a

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n plants in the

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Description

''Mibora'' is a genus of very small to small

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grasses with erect or sometimes quickly ascending stems (often called culms) between long, growing in tufts. As in all grasses the leaves consist at its base of a sheath closely enveloping the culm, a free standing

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at its tip and a

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at the inside/upside where sheath and blade meet. The sheaths are tender, shallowly grooved rounded at their back, long. The ligule is membranaceus and lacks fine hairs (or cilia). The blade is flat, folded along the midline or enrolled and long which are up to wide and have a stump tip. The

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consist of one fertile

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, which has 3 anthers.

Key to the species

References

Poaceae genera Bunchgrasses of Africa Bunchgrasses of Europe Taxa named by Michel Adanson Pooideae {{Pooideae-stub