Eustachys neglecta

(Nash) Nash
Common names: Four-spike fingergrass
Endemic
Treatment appears in FNA Volume 25. Treatment on page 222.

Culms 45-90 (120) cm, erect. Blades to 21 cm long, to 8 mm wide, acute, occasionally scabridulous basally. Panicles with (3) 4-9 branches; branches 3.3-15.5 cm. Spikelets 2.6-3 mm; florets 2-3. Lower glumes to 2.2 mm, apices obtuse or bifid; upper glumes 2.2-2.8 mm, narrowly oblong, apices bilobed, lobes usually acute, occasionally truncate, awned from between the lobes, awns 0.5-1.8 mm; calluses with a few hairs, hairs to 0.6 mm; lowest lemmas 2.3-3 mm, ovate, medium to dark-brown at maturity, lateral-veins and keels with slightly spreading, golden to tawny hairs, hairs to 0.7 mm, apices acute, awned, awns 0.7-1.2 mm; second lemmas 1.4-2.1 mm, obovate to oblanceolate, apices truncate, awned, awns 0.5-0.8 mm. Caryopses about 1.5 mm. 2n = unknown.

Discussion

Eustachys neglecta grows in sandy fields, roadsides, and pinelands. It is endemic to the southeastern United States.

Selected References

None.

Lower Taxa

None.

"decumbent" is not a number.

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purple +  and purple-red +
awned +, truncate +  and bilobed +
acute +, bifid +  and obtuse +
Cynthia Aulbach +
(Nash) Nash +
1 (?) +  and 3 (?) +
0.05 cm0.5 mm <br />5.0e-4 m <br /> (0.08 cm0.8 mm <br />8.0e-4 m <br />) +
triquetrous +
keeled +  and rounded +
pseudopetiolate +  and branching +
not fused +
intravaginal +, extravaginal +, branching +  and basal +
swelling +
membranous +
not pseudopetiolate +
0 cm0 mm <br />0 m <br /> (21 cm210 mm <br />0.21 m <br />) +
pubescent +  and glabrous +
scabridulous +
0 cm0 mm <br />0 m <br /> (0.8 cm8 mm <br />0.008 m <br />) +
non-disarticulating +
spikelike +
3.3 cm33 mm <br />0.033 m <br /> (15.5 cm155 mm <br />0.155 m <br />) +
pale +  and slightly reddish-purple-tinged +
trigonous-ellipsoid +
1.5 cm15 mm <br />0.015 m <br /> (?) +
triangular +  and dome--shaped +
sometimes longer +
membranous +
Four-spike fingergrass +
flattened +
45 cm450 mm <br />0.45 m <br /> (90 cm900 mm <br />0.9 m <br />) +
not woody +
Fla. +  and Ala. +
not waisted +
capillary +
stipitate +  and staminate +
sometimes longer +
rudimentary +
2 +  and 3 +
round +  and compressed +
reduced +
shorter or longer +
subtending +
unequal +
uncinate +
0 cm0 mm <br />0 m <br /> (0.07 cm0.7 mm <br />7.0e-4 m <br />) +
paniculate +  and racemose +
not absent +
cauline +  and basal +
empty +  and stipitate +
obovate +  and oblanceolate +
0.14 cm1.4 mm <br />0.0014 m <br /> (0.21 cm2.1 mm <br />0.0021 m <br />) +
sometimes longer +
0 cm0 mm <br />0 m <br /> (0.05 cm0.5 mm <br />5.0e-4 m <br />) +
awned +  and truncate +
inconspicuous +
somewhat smaller +
0 cm0 mm <br />0 m <br /> (0.22 cm2.2 mm <br />0.0022 m <br />) +
golden +  and tawny +
0.23 cm2.3 mm <br />0.0023 m <br /> (0.3 cm3 mm <br />0.003 m <br />) +
concealed +  and prominent +
2 +  and 1 +
dry +  and fleshy +
spikelike +
equitant +  and distichous +
compressed +  and keeled +
subsessile +  and sessile +
1 +  and 60 +
compressed +
0.26 cm2.6 mm <br />0.0026 m <br /> (0.3 cm3 mm <br />0.003 m <br />) +
1 +  and 3 +
compound +  and simple +
2 (?) +  and 3 (?) +
scabridulous +  and scabrous +
Gramineae +
Eustachys neglecta +
Eustachys +
species +
membranous +
purplish +, pale +  and green +
0.22 cm2.2 mm <br />0.0022 m <br /> (0.28 cm2.8 mm <br />0.0028 m <br />) +
7 (?) +  and 13 (?) +
scabridulous +
stoloniferous +  and rhizomatous +
plant +  and cespitose +
aquatic +  and terrestrial +
dioecious +, monoecious +  and synoecious +