genus sporobolus
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Cosmopolitan annual and perennial grasses (as dropseed or rush grass) (synset 112160654)
is a type of: liliopsid genus, monocot genus - genus of flowering plants having a single cotyledon (embryonic leaf) in the seedmember holonym:
- drop-seed, dropseed - a grass of the genus Sporobolus
- blackseed, carpet grass, smut grass, sporobolus poiretii - grass native to West Indies but common in southern United States having tufted wiry stems often infested with a dark fungus
- rush grass, rush-grass - grass having wiry stems and sheathed panicles
belongs to: family graminaceae, family gramineae, family poaceae, graminaceae, gramineae, grass family, poaceae - the grasses: chiefly herbaceous but some woody plants including cereals; bamboo; reeds; sugar canesame as: sporobolus
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