Cottea pappophoroides

Kunth
Common names: Cotta grass
Treatment appears in FNA Volume 25. Treatment on page 289.

Culms 25-70 cm. Blades 5-15 cm long, 4-7 mm wide. Panicles 8-15 cm long, 2-6 cm wide, green or purplish; branches loosely ascending. Spikelets 5-10 mm (including the awns). Glumes 4-5 mm; lemmas 3-4 mm, conspicuously long-pilose basally, awns and teeth more or less alternating. Caryopses about 1.5 mm, plump, elliptical; embryos about 1/2 as long as the caryopses. 2n = 20.

Discussion

Cottea pappophoroides grows on open hillsides from Arizona and Texas south to central Mexico, and from Ecuador to Argentina.

Selected References

None.

Lower Taxa

None.

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... more about "Cottea pappophoroides"
3-toothed +  and acuminate +
John R. Reeder +
alternating +
1 (?) +  and 3 (?) +
multiple +, , +  and single +
keeled +  and rounded +
pseudopetiolate +  and branching +
not fused +
intravaginal +, extravaginal +, branching +  and basal +
swelling +
not pseudopetiolate +
5 cm50 mm <br />0.05 m <br /> (15 cm150 mm <br />0.15 m <br />) +
usually linear +  and lanceolate occasionally ovate +
0.4 cm4 mm <br />0.004 m <br /> (0.7 cm7 mm <br />0.007 m <br />) +
spikelike +
1.5 cm15 mm <br />0.015 m <br /> (?) +
triangular +  and dome--shaped +
Cotta grass +
pappuslike +
erect +  and ascending +
25 cm250 mm <br />0.25 m <br /> (70 cm700 mm <br />0.7 m <br />) +
Ariz. +, N.Mex. +  and Tex. +
not waisted +
capillary +
pistillate +  and staminate +
sometimes longer +
single +, 6 +  and 10 +
round +  and compressed +
shorter or longer +
subtending +
subequal +
0.4 cm4 mm <br />0.004 m <br /> (0.5 cm5 mm <br />0.005 m <br />) +
uncinate +
paniculate +  and racemose +
hollow +  and solid +
not absent +
long-pilose +
rounded +
0.3 cm3 mm <br />0.003 m <br /> (0.4 cm4 mm <br />0.004 m <br />) +
inconspicuous +
concealed +  and prominent +
2 +  and 1 +
slightly longer +
2-keeled +
purplish +  and green +
8cm +  and 15cm +
2 cm20 mm <br />0.02 m <br /> (6 cm60 mm <br />0.06 m <br />) +
dry +  and fleshy +
1 +  and 60 +
compressed +
0.5 cm5 mm <br />0.005 m <br /> (1 cm10 mm <br />0.01 m <br />) +
1 +  and 3 +
compound +  and simple +
2 (?) +  and 3 (?) +
Gramineae +
Cottea pappophoroides +
species +
membranous +
alternating +
9 (?) +  and 13 (?) +
plant +  and cespitose +
aquatic +  and terrestrial +
dioecious +, monoecious +  and synoecious +