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Schmidiella Veldk., gen. nov., a new herbaceous grass genus of uncertain (sub)tribal affinities is described for Laos, based on a single gathering of J.F. Maxwell. This genus exhibits indeed an unexpected combination of morphological features from Dimeriinae and Nardeae, phylogenetically very remote tribes.
Dimeria, Nardus, Poaceae, new genus, new species