Melinis nerviglumis
Common names: Pink crystal
Treatment appears in FNA Volume 25. Treatment on page added post-publication.
Plants perennial; cespitose. Culms (25) 40-120 (150) cm. Leaf-sheaths not strongly overlapping; blades (3) 1-30 (44) cm long, (1.3) 2-3.5 (4.5) mm wide, rolled. Panicles contracted. Pedicels scabrous, with hairs to 7 mm. Spikelets 3.2-5.7 mm long, 2 mm wide, often densely covered with hairs, hairs to 4 mm, white or pink to purple. Glumes separated by 0.3 (0.6) mm; lower glumes about 0.5 mm, awns 1-2 (3) mm. 2n = 36.
Discussion
In its native southern Africa, Melinis nerviglumis flowers from November to September [sic]
Selected References
None.
Lower Taxa
None.
"decumbent" is not a number.
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absent +
common +
absent +
bulliform +
absent +
membranous +
absent +
absent +
3 cm30 mm <br />0.03 m <br /> (?) +
arising +
single +
membranous +
thick +
adaxial +
rolled +
secund +
spikelike +
not developed +
absent +
sometimes longer +
Pink crystal +
annual +
climbing +
floating +
erect +
woody +
narrow +
1/2 +
waisted +
large +
hard +
capillary +
germination +
adjacent +
sometimes longer +
well-developed +
absent +
reduced +
bisexual +
absent +
separated +
shorter +
shorter or longer +
subtending +
unequal +
membranous +
equal +
lacking +
uncinate +
punctate +
axillary +
elongated +
absent +
distichous +
hyaline +
coriaceous +
absent +
membranous +
free +
absent +
inconspicuous +
glabrous +
cuneate +
staminate +
sterile +
reduced +
0-1-veined +
absent +
not gibbous +
0.5 cm5 mm <br />0.005 m <br /> (?) +
separated +
hyaline +
involute +
absent +
absent +
glabrous +
keeled +
contracted +
subterranean +
absent +
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spikelike +
evident +
capillary +
higher +
open +
overlapping +
closed +
complex +
bisexual +
unisexual +
sessile +
length +
attached +
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varying +
simple +
Melinis nerviglumis +
Melinis +
species +
hyaline +
membranous +
falling +
bisexual +
compressed +
5-7-veined +
absent +
gibbous +
subequal +
glabrous +
subcoriaceous +
absent +
perennial +
herbaceous +
various +