Muhlenbergia curtifolia

Scribn.
Common names: Utah muhly
Endemic
Treatment appears in FNA Volume 25. Treatment on page 167.

Plants perennial; rhizomatous, not cespitose. Culms 10-45 cm tall, 0.3-0.5 mm thick, erect or decumbent; internodes hirsute and strigose below the nodes. Sheaths shorter than the internodes, hirsute; ligules 0.2-0.6 mm, margins hyaline, apices truncate to obtuse, erose, ciliate; blades 0.5-4 (5) cm long, 0.6-1.5 (2.2) mm wide, awl-shaped, flat near the base, becoming slightly involute distally, strigose to scabrous abaxially, hirsute adaxially. Panicles 2-10 cm long, 0.2-1 cm wide, contracted, not dense; primary branches 0.3-2.5 cm, ascending to appressed; pedicels 0.1-3 mm. Spikelets 2.8-4 mm. Glumes equal, 2.5-4 mm, 1-veined, veins scabridulous, apices acute; lemmas 2.8-4 mm, lanceolate, hairy on the lower 3/4, hairs to 1.5 mm, tawny, midveins scabridulous distally, apices acuminate, awned, awns usually 1-6 (12) mm, delicate, straight; paleas 2.8-4 mm, lanceolate, intercostal region tawny pubescent on the basal 3/4; anthers 1.2-1.6 mm, yellowish-purple. Caryopses 2-2.4 mm, fusiform, brownish. 2n = unknown.

Discussion

Muhlenbergia curtifolia grows on damp ledges and in rock crevices of vertical cliffs, and beneath large calcareous boulders above the canyon floor, at elevations of 1600-2750 m, in the southwestern United States. It resembles M. thurberi, differing in its flatter leaf blades and shorter ligules and anthers. It also tends to grow in more mesic habitats than M. thurberi.

Selected References

None.

Lower Taxa

None.

"decumbent" is not a number.

... more about "Muhlenbergia curtifolia"
olivaceous +, yellow +, orange +  and purple +
0.12 cm1.2 mm <br />0.0012 m <br /> (0.16 cm1.6 mm <br />0.0016 m <br />) +
acuminate +, acute +, truncate +  and obtuse +
Paul M. Peterson +
Scribn. +
1 (?) +  and 3 (?) +
12 cm120 mm <br />0.12 m <br /> (?) +
straight +
multiple +, , +  and single +
curled +
0.1 cm1 mm <br />0.001 m <br /> (0.6 cm6 mm <br />0.006 m <br />) +
keeled +  and rounded +
pseudopetiolate +  and branching +
not fused +
intravaginal +, extravaginal +, branching +  and basal +
swelling +
membranous +
not pseudopetiolate +
0.5 cm5 mm <br />0.005 m <br /> (4 cm40 mm <br />0.04 m <br />) +
hirsute +, strigose +  and scabrous abaxially +
awl--shaped +
0.06 cm0.6 mm <br />6.0e-4 m <br /> (0.15 cm1.5 mm <br />0.0015 m <br />) +
spikelike +
with hairs +  and glabrous +
0.2 cm2 mm <br />0.002 m <br /> (0.24 cm2.4 mm <br />0.0024 m <br />) +
triangular +  and dome--shaped +
sometimes longer +
membranous +
Utah muhly +
10 cm100 mm <br />0.1 m <br /> (45 cm450 mm <br />0.45 m <br />) +
decumbent +  and erect +
geniculate +
2 cm20 mm <br />0.02 m <br /> (300 cm3,000 mm <br />3 m <br />) +
0.03 cm0.3 mm <br />3.0e-4 m <br /> (0.05 cm0.5 mm <br />5.0e-4 m <br />) +
Utah +, Ariz. +  and Nev. +
not waisted +
capillary +
pistillate +  and staminate +
bisexual +  and fertile +
round +  and compressed +
reduced +
shorter or longer +
subtending +
0.25 cm2.5 mm <br />0.0025 m <br /> (0.4 cm4 mm <br />0.004 m <br />) +
uncinate +
0 cm0 mm <br />0 m <br /> (0.15 cm1.5 mm <br />0.0015 m <br />) +
paniculate +  and racemose +
hollow +  and solid +
strigose +  and hirsute +
not absent +
lanceolate +
0.28 cm2.8 mm <br />0.0028 m <br /> (0.4 cm4 mm <br />0.004 m <br />) +
acuminate +  and truncate +
0.02 cm0.2 mm <br />2.0e-4 m <br /> (0.06 cm0.6 mm <br />6.0e-4 m <br />) +
membranous +
inconspicuous +
scabridulous +
concealed +  and prominent +
2 +  and 1 +
lanceolate +
0.28 cm2.8 mm <br />0.0028 m <br /> (0.4 cm4 mm <br />0.004 m <br />) +
2cm +  and 10cm +
cleistogamous +
spikelike +
0.2 cm2 mm <br />0.002 m <br /> (1 cm10 mm <br />0.01 m <br />) +
0.01 cm0.1 mm <br />1.0e-4 m <br /> (0.3 cm3 mm <br />0.003 m <br />) +
dry +  and fleshy +
ascending;appressed +
0.3 cm3 mm <br />0.003 m <br /> (2.5 cm25 mm <br />0.025 m <br />) +
spikelike +
1 +  and 60 +
compressed +
0.28 cm2.8 mm <br />0.0028 m <br /> (0.4 cm4 mm <br />0.004 m <br />) +
1 +  and 3 +
compound +  and simple +
2 (?) +  and 3 (?) +
Gramineae +
Muhlenbergia curtifolia +
Muhlenbergia +
species +
membranous +
shorter than to longer than the florets +
7 (?) +  and 13 (?) +
scabridulous +
plant +  and not cespitose +
aquatic +  and terrestrial +
dioecious +, monoecious +  and synoecious +