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Orcuttia
Orcuttia is a genus of grass in the family Poaceae. Plants grow up to 20 cm (8 in) tall, usually with many stems emerging from the base of the plant, and forming a tuft. The spikelets (groups of flowers) are several-flowered, with reduced upper florets. The lemma tips have between two and five teeth.
5 branches of this genus, most-observed first
California orcutt grass
speciesOrcuttia californica
slender orcutt grass
speciesOrcuttia tenuis
Sacramento orcutt grass
speciesOrcuttia viscida
hairy orcutt grass
speciesOrcuttia pilosa
san joaquin valley orcutt grass
speciesOrcuttia inaequalis
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 72265.