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Cyperaceae such as Cyperus compressus, C. elegans, Scirpus sp.
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The anaerobic digestion of a mixture of field grasses (mainly Axonopus compressus, Eleusine indica, and Digitaria longiflora), water hyacinths
Chapter 7 1983
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Linnæus, on the other hand, considered such stems to be the result of the formation of an unusual number of buds, the shoots resulting from which became coherent as growth proceeded: -- "_Fasciata dici solet planta cum plures caules connascuntur, ut unus ex plurimis instar fasciæ evadat et compressus_"
Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants Maxwell T. Masters
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