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Culm sheaths green or yellow, densely glaucous, purple setose, margins ciliate, apex withered; auricles falcate; oral setae purple-red, 5–10 mm, rigid, scabrous; ligules prominent or truncate, 4–5 mm, densely glaucous; blade purple-green, narrow, shortly linear-lanceolate or lanceolate, revolute, densely pubescent, constricted at base, margins serrulate, apex acute.

[...] [...] (0.1-)0.3-1.8(-2.2) mm, often ciliate; leaf blade (1-)3-18(-22) [...] [...]

[...] [...] repand, denticulate and ciliate, without a distinct apex.

[...] [...] keels long ciliate, apex obtuse or emarginate, 5-veined between keels, each flank 4-veined; lodicules 3, upper part membranous, margins ciliate.

Culm sheaths green, sparsely white or yellow hairy or with imprints and brown papillae from fallen hairs, margins white ciliate; auricles purple or brown, ovate or rarely falcate; oral setae erect, flexuose; ligule purple, truncate, ca. 1.5 mm, margin purple ciliate; blade green, broadly lanceolate, margins ciliate, base contracted, apex acuminate.

Culm sheaths green, glossy, hard, glabrous or nearly so at base, acute at apex, amplexicaul at middle part; auricles oblong, small, transversely extended at both sides of sheath apex, margin uniformly rough ciliate, cilia erect and short; blade rounded at apex.

Leaves spirally arranged or 3-5-fascicled on cushion-shaped short branches; stipules reddish brown, ovate-triangular, ca. 2 mm, base cordate, margin ciliate, apex caudate-acuminate, persistent; petiole 1-2 mm, velvety-papillate [pubescent to glabrous]; leaf blade obovate, oblong-obovate, or spatulate, 1-2 × 0.6-1.3 cm, leathery, base attenuate, margin narrowly revolute when dry, apex obtuse or rounded, rarely retuse; midrib slightly raised on both surfaces, lateral veins obscure.

Spikelets 2.5–3.5 mm; callus hairs ca. 3 times spikelet length; lower glume lanceolate, thinly cartilaginous, dark brown at maturity, back subglabrous, margins shortly ciliate or occasionally with longer hairs, apex palely membranous, sharply acuminate; lower lemma slightly longer than glumes, apex attenuate, sometimes awnlike; upper lemma linear-lanceolate, entire, awned; awn 1–1.5 cm.

Leaves 3–5 per ultimate branch; sheath glabrous or sparsely setose, margins ciliolate; auricles fragile, falcate at branchlet base, weak or absent apex; oral setae erect, light yellow; ligule very short, thin, glabrous, sometimes ciliate; blade lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate, 8–15 × 1.5–2.3 cm, secondary veins 4-paired, margins serrulate, sharply pointed.

[...] [...] short, entire, ciliolate; blade erect, lanceolate, ca. 1/2 as wide as sheath apex, both surfaces glabrous or scabrid, [...]

Spikelets 7–8.5 mm, florets (2–)3–5, rachilla puberulous, internodes 1–1.5 mm; glumes lanceolate, dorsally black-purple, margins membranous, yellowish brown, glabrous; lower glume 3.5–5 mm, acute; upper glume 4.5–6 mm, acute or obtuse; lemmas thin, dorsally black-brown but yellow-brown at base and apex, lowest 5–5.5 mm, margins and lower keel loosely pilose, apex denticulate, middle vein exserted into a short mucro; palea keels ciliolate, loosely puberulous on outer flaps, apex acute or emarginate.

[...] [...] terete; palea keels ciliolate.

Stipules partly clasping, deeply parted, glandular pilose; petiole 2-6 cm, without glands, pubescent, indumentum dense, spreading, glandular pilose; leaf blade broadly ovate to oblong-ovate, (3-)4.5-13 × (2.5-)4-12 cm, membranous, glandular ciliate, abaxially pubescent with small nectaries in distal part, adaxially sericeous, mixed with occasional glandular hairs, base cordate, 3-lobed or unlobed, margin irregularly undulate, apex acute.

[...] [...] cordate, margin denticulate and long-ciliate, without a [...]

[...] [...] pairs, arcuate ascending, reticulate far from margin, abaxially very conspicuously prominent, often hirsute, base cuneate, apex long acuminate.

[...] [...] contains a relatively high concentration of hydrophobic cilia groups in its backbone, exhibits a unique combination [...] [...]

[...] [...] hirsute; blade abaxially purplish, adaxially dark green with a grayish green or silver horseshoe-shaped spot, ovate to narrowly ovate, asymmetric, 6-33 × 5-21 cm, abaxially sparsely hairy, adaxially long setose, venation palmate, 6- or 7-veined, base oblique, cordate, margin serrulate and ciliate, apex shortly acuminate.

At its sixty-sixth session, the General Assembly stressed the importance of the continued substantive consideration of the follow-up to and implementation of the Mauritius Strategy for the Further Implementation of the Programme of Action for the Sustainable Development of Small Island Developing States and decided to consider at its sixty-seventh session the reports of the Secretary-General on concrete recommendations to enhance the implementation of the Barbados Programme of Action for the Sustainable Development of Small Island Developing States and the Mauritius Strategy for the Further Implementation of the Programme of Action for the Sustainable Development of Small Island Developing States (A/66/278) and on the review of United Nations system support to small island developing States (A/66/218), issued for the sixty-sixth session (resolution 66/198).