Bromus mucroglumis

Wagnon
Common names: Sharpglume brome
Treatment appears in FNA Volume 24. Treatment on page 218.
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Plants perennial; not rhizomatous. Culms 50-100 cm, erect or spreading; nodes 5-7, pilose or pubescent; internodes glabrous. Basal sheaths pubescent or pilose, throats pilose; upper sheaths pubescent or glabrous, midrib of the culm leaves not abruptly narrowed just below the collar; auricles absent; ligules 1-2 mm, glabrous, truncate or obtuse; blades 20-30 cm long, (4) 7-11 mm wide, flat, both surfaces pilose or the abaxial surface glabrous. Panicles 10-20 cm, open, nodding; branches ascending or spreading. Spikelets 20-30 mm, elliptic to lanceolate, terete to moderately laterally compressed, with 5-10 florets. Glumes usually pilose or pubescent, rarely glabrous; lower glumes 6-8 mm, 1-veined; upper glumes 8-8.5 mm, 3-veined, mucronate; lemmas 10-12 mm, elliptic to lanceolate, rounded over the midvein, backs and margins pilose or pubescent, apices acute to obtuse, entire; awns 3-5 mm, straight, arising less than 1.5 mm below the lemma apices; anthers 1.5-3 mm. 2n = 28.

Distribution

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Ariz., N.Mex.

Discussion

Bromus mucroglumis grows at 1500-3000 m in the southwestern United States and northern Mexico.

Selected References

None.

Lower Taxa

None.

"decumbent" is not a number.

... more about "Bromus mucroglumis"
membranous +  and scarious +
0.15 cm1.5 mm <br />0.0015 m <br /> - 0.3 cm3 mm <br />0.003 m <br /> +
acute +  and obtuse +
Leon E. Pavlickf +
Wagnon +
1 - ? +  and 3 - ? +
straight +
distinct +
subterminal +  and terminal +
geniculate +
0 cm0 mm <br />0 m <br /> - 0.15 cm1.5 mm <br />0.0015 m <br /> +
keeled +  and rounded +
pilose +  and pubescent +
pseudopetiolate +  and branching +
intravaginal +, extravaginal +, branching +  and basal +
swelling +
20 cm200 mm <br />0.2 m <br /> - 30 cm300 mm <br />0.3 m <br /> +
not evident +
cross +, linear +  and narrowly lanceolate +
0.7 cm7 mm <br />0.007 m <br /> - 1.1 cm11 mm <br />0.011 m <br /> +
spreading;ascending +
spikelike +
Sharpglume brome +
not branching +
spreading +  and erect +
50 cm500 mm <br />0.5 m <br /> - 100 cm1,000 mm <br />1 m <br /> +
not woody +
Ariz. +  and N.Mex. +
liquid +, soft +  and hard +
capillary +
pistillate +  and staminate +
sometimes longer +
5 +  and 10 +
terete +  and laterally compressed +
1-9 - 11-veined +
always shorter +  and usually shorter +
lanceolate +
subtending +
glabrous +, pubescent +  and pilose +
mucronate +  and acute +
unequal +
uncinate +
solid +  and hollow +
pubescent +  and glabrous +
rounded +, elliptic +  and lanceolate +
1 cm10 mm <br />0.01 m <br /> - 1.2 cm12 mm <br />0.012 m <br /> +
herbaceous +  and coriaceous +
obtuse +  and truncate +
0.1 cm1 mm <br />0.001 m <br /> - 0.2 cm2 mm <br />0.002 m <br /> +
membranous +
inconspicuous +
lanceolate +
fleshy +  and membranous +
0.6 cm6 mm <br />0.006 m <br /> - 0.8 cm8 mm <br />0.008 m <br /> +
pubescent +  and pilose +
concealed +  and prominent +
pubescent +  and pilose +
5 +  and 7 +
2 +  and 1 +
hairy +  and glabrous +
well-developed +
reduced +
10 cm100 mm <br />0.1 m <br /> - 20 cm200 mm <br />0.2 m <br /> +
dry +  and fleshy +
1 +  and 60 +
not viviparous +
elliptic +  and lanceolate terete +
2 cm20 mm <br />0.02 m <br /> - 3 cm30 mm <br />0.03 m <br /> +
1 +  and 3 +
simple +  and compound +
2 - ? +  and 3 - ? +
Gramineae +
Bromus mucroglumis +
Bromus sect. Bromopsis +
species +
membranous +
0.8 cm8 mm <br />0.008 m <br /> - 0.85 cm8.5 mm <br />0.0085 m <br /> +
glabrous +  and pubescent +
aquatic +  and terrestrial +