Bromidium tandilense
Plants annual, tufted. Culms 5-50 cm, slender, erect. Sheaths smooth; ligules 1.5-3 mm, membranous, rounded to acute, entire; blades 2-10 cm long, 0.5-4 mm wide, flat. Panicles 0.9-8 cm long, (0.2) 0.7-1.5 cm wide, cylindrical, generally straw-colored or brown, appearing bristly; branches to 1 cm, ascending to appressed, with 1 branch at the lowest node; pedicels 0.1-0.7 mm, scabrous. Spikelets 2.6-3.6 mm. Glumes lanceolate, subequal, keels scabrous, sides smooth, apices acute; lower glumes 2.6-3.6 mm; upper glumes (2) 2.4-3.5 mm; calluses pilose on all sides, hairs to 0.5 mm, dense; lemmas (1) 1.4-1.6 mm, pilose, 5-veined, lateral-veins prolonged into awnlike teeth, outer teeth (0.8) 1-2 mm, inner teeth 0.1-0.2 (0.5) mm, awns 4.5-6 mm, arising from the lower 1/3 of the lemmas, exceeding the glumes by 2-2.5 mm; paleas absent: anthers 0.2-0.5 mm, sometimes differing in length within a floret, often remaining on the apices of the caryopses. Caryopses 1-1.3 mm; hila oval; endosperm liquid or doughy. 2n = unknown.
Discussion
Bromidium tandilense is native to Argentina, Brazil, Uruguay, and Paraguay. It now grows around vernal pools in Solano, Monterey, and San Diego counties, California.
Selected References
None.
Lower Taxa
"decumbent" is not a number.