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Comparison ofDactylotenium Willd. andEleusine Gaertn. Spermoderm patterns

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Seeds ofDactyloctenium Willd. andEleusine Gaertn. may be distinguished from each other by spermoderm patterns.Dactyloctenium seeds are transversed by ridges crossed by wavy lines forming a verrucated, reticulate pattern.Eleusine seeds have a pitted, tuberculate spermoderm pattern.

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  1. Department of Botany and Plant Sciences, University of California, 92521, Riverside, California, U.S.A.

    Lowell S. Jordan, James L. Jordan & Catalina M. Jordan

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Jordan, L.S., Jordan, J.L. & Jordan, C.M. Comparison ofDactylotenium Willd. andEleusine Gaertn. Spermoderm patterns. Bot Mag Tokyo 98, 199–202 (1985). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02488799

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