Mapania graminea
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Description
Leaves very densely crowded, strikingly 3-ranked (the rows very prominent and fan-like at the base, the base of the foliage in cross-section therefore Y-shaped), coriaceous, linear, with the midnerve prominent beneath, slightly narrowed towards the conduplicate base, very gradually narrowed into a long, flagelliform, triquetrous, aculeate-scabrous acumen, densely serrate-scabrous throughout the margins and on the midnerve beneath in the upper part. also aculeate-scabrous on the upper surface in the upper part, glaucous, up to 1½ m by 5-20 mm;
Inflorescence consisting of a single spikelet, rarely of 2-3 fasciculately arranged spikelets.
Flowers about as long as the glumes;