Hemarthria R. Br.

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 : 266

153. Hemarthria R. Br. 1

Caespitose or rhizomatous perennials. Inflorescence of terminal and axillary spike-like racemes, with a tough rhachis and one sessile and one pedicellate spikelet at each node. Spikelets with 2 florets, dorsally compressed and more or less sunk in the rhachis, to which the pedicel is adnate, unawned; lower glume coriaceous; lower floret reduced to a hyaline lemma; upper floret hermaphrodite.