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AT two localities near Brisbane, plants of Eleusine indica, an annual grass, have been observed with inflorescences bearing proliferated spikelets. Such plants were rare and in every instance bore normal as well as proliferated spikelets.
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CLIFFORD, H. Vivipary in Eleusine Indica (L) Gaertn. Nature 184, 1888 (1959). https://doi.org/10.1038/1841888a0
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