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A new cleistogamous South American species of Eragrostis (Poaceae: Chloridoideae)

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Eragrostis riobrancensis (Poaceae, Chloridoideae), a new species with cleistogamous spikelets from sandy river banks of southern Guyana and adjacent Terr. Roraima, Brazil, is described and illustrated.

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  1. Department of Botany, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, 20560, Washington, DC

    Emmet J. Judziewicz & Paul M. Peterson

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  1. Emmet J. Judziewicz
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Judziewicz, E.J., Peterson, P.M. A new cleistogamous South American species of Eragrostis (Poaceae: Chloridoideae). Brittonia 42, 47–49 (1990). https://doi.org/10.2307/2807027

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