Psilolemma

{{Short description|Genus of grasses}}

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| genus = Psilolemma

| parent_authority = S.M.Phillips

| species = jaegeri

| authority = (Pilg.) S.M.Phillips

| synonyms_ref = [http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/synonomy.do?name_id=438512 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant families]

| synonyms =

• Diplachne jaegeri Pilg.
• Odyssea jaegeri (Pilg.) Robyns & Tournay

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Psilolemma is a genus of plants in the grass family.Phillips, Sylvia Mabel. 1974. Kew Bulletin 29(2): 267[http://www.tropicos.org/Name/40018921 Tropicos, Psilolemma S.M. Phillips ][http://www.kew.org/data/grasses-db/www/gen00531.htm Grassbase - The World Online Grass Flora] The only known species is Psilolemma jaegeri, native to the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania.Clayton, W.D., Phillips, S.M., Renvoize, S.A. (1974). Gramineae. Flora of Tropical East Africa 2: 177-449.

A wiry, somewhat spiny perennial mat-grass 7–35 cm tall with long, tough, thin, wide-spreading stolons and pungent-smelling leaves. Glaucous or yellowish shoots of numerous bristly leaves form dense tufts at the stolon nodes. Stems are leafy, slender, with bulbous bases. Leaf-blades are stiff and 0.5–7 cm. long, 1.5–2 mm. wide, with sheaths that usually overlap and 0.3–0.75 mm. long ligules. Flowering clusters are narrow and 3.5–12 cm. long.{{Cite web|url=https://plants.jstor.org/compilation/Psilolemma.jaegeri|title = Psilolemma jaegeri in Global Plants}}