Leaf anatomy of the genus Ehrharta (Poaceae) in southern Africa: the Villosa group
The leaf blade anatomy of Ehrharta villosa Schult.f.var.villosa, var.maxima Stapf and E.thunbergii Gibbs Russell is described and illustrated.These three taxa, constituting the Villosa species group, share a diagnostic leaf anatomy distinguished by the absence of a distinct midrib, adaxial semi-radiate mesophyll with the abaxial chloren- chyma pali