Enneapogon Desv. ex Beauv.

Tutin, T. G., Heywood, V. H., Burges, N. A., Moore, D. M., Valentine, D. H., Walters, S. M. & Webb, D. A., 1980, Flora Europaea. Volume 5. Alismataceae to Orchidaceae (Monocotyledones), Cambridge: Cambridge University Press : 255

118. Enneapogon Desv. ex Beauv. 1

Annuals or perennials. Leaves flat or convolute. Inflorescence a compact or spike-like panicle. Spikelets scarcely compressed, with 3(—6) florets, the lower l(-3) hermaphrodite, the remainder sterile. Glumes unequal, membranous, longer than the lemmas, (3-)7- to 9-veined. Lemma of hermaphrodite florets ellipticoblong, with 9 prominent veins produced into awns longer than the lemma. Palea often longer than lemma.

Literature: H. Freitag, Collect. Bot. (Barcelona) 7: 483-493 (1968). S. A. Renvoize, Kew Bull. 22: 393-401 (1968).