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Rhizomatous perennials, herbaceous. Ligule fringed or lacking. Leaves with a pulvinus at the distal end of the petiole, with broad blades. Inflorescence made up of units that defy conventional descriptions, generally known as “spikelet equivalents,” more or less equivalent to a single flower, bisexual. The spikelet equivalents sessile, bracteate or not. Additional bract-like structures arranged in unusual phyllotaxis, but probably representing highly modified perianth. Caryopsis with a hard endosperm, with the hilum long but inconspicuous, the embryo with or without an epiblast, with a scutellar cleft, without a mesocotyl internode, embryonic leaf margins overlapping or not.
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Kellogg, E.A. (2015). I. Subfamily Anomochlooideae Pilg. ex Potztal (1957). In: Flowering Plants. Monocots. The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants, vol 13. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-15332-2_15
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