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A new species of rhytachne (Poaceae: Andropogoneae) from northern South America

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Rhytachne gonzalezii is described and illustrated. It ranges from Apure, Venezuela to Pará, Brazil. It is the third annual species known in this tropical African-American genus. Previously it had been confounded with the perennialR. rottboellioides from which it differs in its habit, branching culms, smaller sessile spikelets and rachis internodes, and awned upper glume.

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Davidse, G. A new species of rhytachne (Poaceae: Andropogoneae) from northern South America. Brittonia 36, 402–405 (1984). https://doi.org/10.2307/2806601

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