Dichanthelium sect. Pedicellata

(Hitchc. & Chase) Freckmann & Lelong
Treatment appears in FNA Volume 25. Treatment on page 410.

Plants usually cespitose, sometimes with knotty rhizomes; basal rosettes absent. Culms initially erect, ultimately decumbent, often with hard, cormlike bases; fall phase freely divaricate-branching before the primary panicles mature. Cauline leaves 4-14; sheaths glabrous or pubescent, not viscid; ligules membranous and ciliate or of hairs; blades with papillose-based marginal cilia. Primary panicles exserted. Spikelets obovoid to obpyriform, with papillose-based hairs, attenuate basally. Upper florets with pointed to attenuate, puberulent apices.

Selected References

None.

"usually distinctly longer and narrower" is not a number."decumbent" is not a number.

puberulent +
pointed +  and attenuate +
anatomy +  and kranz +
Mary E. Barkworth +
(Hitchc. & Chase) Freckmann & Lelong +
1 (?) +  and 3 (?) +
keeled +  and rounded +
pseudopetiolate +  and branching +
divergent +  and parallel +
intravaginal +, extravaginal +, branching +  and basal +
swelling +
disarticulating +  and pseudopetiolate +
non-radiate +  and radiate +
distinct +
shortly ovate +  and lanceolate +
spikelike +
0 cm0 mm <br />0 m <br /> (1 cm10 mm <br />0.01 m <br />) +
not developed +
terete +  and compressed +
sometimes longer +
branching +  and hollow +
5 cm50 mm <br />0.05 m <br /> (150 cm1,500 mm <br />1.5 m <br />) +
Minn. +, Conn. +, N.J. +, N.Y. +, Wash. +, Ala. +, Mich. +, N.C. +, Pa. +, Puerto Rico +, S.C. +, W.Va. +, Ark. +, Iowa +, Kans. +, Mo. +, N.Dak. +, Nebr. +, Okla. +, S.Dak. +, Del. +, D.C +, Wis. +, Alta. +, B.C. +, Man. +, N.B. +, Nfld. and Labr. (Labr.) +, N.S. +, Ont. +, P.E.I. +, Que. +, Sask. +, Pacific Islands (Hawaii) +, Md. +, Mass. +, Maine +, N.H. +, R.I. +, Vt. +, Fla. +, Wyo. +, Miss. +, Ariz. +, N.Mex. +, Tex. +, La. +, Ga. +, Tenn. +, Calif. +, Nev. +, Colo. +, Ill. +, Ind. +, Va. +, Idaho +, Ohio +, Utah +, Mont. +, Oreg. +  and Ky. +
capillary +
germination +
pistillate +  and staminate +
sometimes longer +
compressed +  and terete +
shorter or longer +
subtending +
unequal +
membranous +
papillose-based +
uncinate +
0.1 cm1 mm <br />0.001 m <br /> (0.5 cm5 mm <br />0.005 m <br />) +
Oval (?) +  and Round (?) +
bracteate +  and ebracteate +
solid +  and hollow +
cauline +  and basal +
coriaceous +
membranous +
inconspicuous +
1/5 +  and 3/4 +
acuminate +, acute +  and truncate +
complex +  and simple +
concealed +  and prominent +
2 +  and 1 +
subterranean +
dry +  and fleshy +
divaricate-branching +
not viscid +
pubescent +  and glabrous +
in triplets +  and paired +
1 +  and 60 +
unisexual +  and bisexual +
attenuate +, obovoid +  and obpyriform +
0.08 cm0.8 mm <br />8.0e-4 m <br /> (0.52 cm5.2 mm <br />0.0052 m <br />) +
1 +  and 3 +
fused +  and free +
2 +  and 3 +
dome--shaped +  and triangular +
Gramineae +
Dichanthelium sect. Pedicellata +
Dichanthelium +
section +
membranous +
subacute +  and acute +
chartaceous-indurate +
plant +  and cespitose +
aquatic +  and terrestrial +
dioecious +, monoecious +  and synoecious +