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Evergreen dioecious plants, caespitose, shortly rhizomatous or with branching aerial stems. Culms simple or branching, terete or flattened, glabrous. Leaves all basal or arising from aerial stems, with laterally flattened, equitant blades, with a small ligule at the transition to the sheath, sheath split to the base. Inflorescence racemose, with few or many flowers, sometimes with elongated inflorescence branches, the 2 sexes alike. Flowers not in spikelets, sessile or pedicellate, each with 1 or 2 short bracts. Perianth of 6 rigid or scarious-membranous, identical, glumaceous, glabrous tepals in 2 whorls. Male flowers with 3 stamens opposite the inner tepals, filaments free, slender; anthers bilocular, exserted, dorsifixed, 2-lobed, each lobe dehiscing by a longitudinal slit. Female flowers usually with staminodes (sometimes minute); ovary superior, free, 3-locular with a single pendulous atropous ovule in each locule, with 3 elongated papillose styluli, free to the base or shortly connate to form a short style. Fruit a 3-locular, bluntly angular capsule opening at the angles. Seeds ovoid, white, asymmetrical, the surface colliculate with lines of large angular or deeply lobed cells imprinted with a striate pattern.
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Linder, H.P., Briggs, B.G., Johnson, L.A.S. (1998). Anarthriaceae. In: Kubitzki, K. (eds) Flowering Plants · Monocotyledons. The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants, vol 4. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-03531-3_5
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