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CAPEOCHLOA
(
G
)
Family:
POACEAE
Cape, = the Cape;
chloa, chloe, = the tender shoot of plants in spring, the blade of young corn or grass.
(The name refers to the geographical center for the genus, as characterisitic of the Cape flora)
(
LS
,
Mgb
)
Capeochloa cincta subsp. cincta [Was Merxmuellera cincta]
(
La
)
Location: (
F
,
K
,
P
)
cingo, cinctus, = to go round in a circle, to surround, encompass, environ, gird, wreathe, crown; encircle.
(
ld
)