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Bailey, L.H. (1949) Manual of Cultivated Plants Revised edition. Macmillan, New York.
Staples, G.W. & Herbst, D.R. (2005) A Tropical Garden Flora; plants cultivated in the Hawaiian islands and other tropical places. Bishop Museum Press, Honolulu, Hawaii.
Large clump-forming dioecious perennial herbs. Leaves tufted; blades linear, flat; ligule a line of hairs. Inflorescence a plume-like panicle borne well above foliage. Spikelets feathery, compressed sideways, 2-7 florets per spikelet. Glumes 1-nerved. Lemmas acuminate, unawned, 3-nerved; ± glabrous in the male flowers; very hairy toward the base in female flowers. Stamens 3, reduced to staminodes in the female flowers. Stigmas plumose. Derivation of name: cutting, based on the Argentinian name for C. selloana, referring to the sharp leaf margins. Worldwide: 24 species, mainly in South America, also New Zealand and New Guinea Zimbabwe: 1 cultivated taxon. |
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