Erioneuron nealleyi
Culms (15) 30-65 cm tall, 0.8-2 mm thick, glabrous or hispidulous; nodes glabrous or densely villous. Ligules 0.2-0.6 mm; blades 5-10 cm long, 2-2.5 mm wide, flat in moist conditions, both surfaces pilose to villous, green. Panicles compact (rarely open), 5-10 cm long, 1-3 cm wide, usually 2-4 (6) times longer than wide, occasionally interrupted in the lower 1/2; branches with 5-17 shortly pedicellate spikelets. Spikelets 7-11 mm, purplish to pale, with 3-15 florets; lower glumes 5-7 mm; upper glumes 6-9 mm, generally equaling or exceeding the lowest florets; lemmas 4-6 mm, awned from between the lobes, awns 1-3.5 mm, apices bilobed, lobes 1.5-2.5 mm, rounded to truncate, lateral-veins forming a mucro to 1 mm; anthers 1, 1-1.5 mm. Caryopses 1.3-1.5 mm. 2n = 16.
Discussion
Erioneuron nealleyi is found on rocky slopes in the southwestern United States and central Mexico. Stoloniferous plants are known only from central Mexico.
Selected References
None.
Lower Taxa
"decumbent" is not a number.